Thread: Getting back to living off the land.....

Originally Posted by bumblefoot

Skinning time.... If you're wanting to tan a skin, here's a tip to make fleshing easier, or pratically nonexistent, is to always skin from the back towards the front cavity opening. It makes it much easier to keep the belly "skin" (the pink skin on the belly meat) on the carcass rather than on the skin, because you get "behind" it. If you punch the skin off from the back (at the rump by the tail) towards the cavity opening you end up with a clean skin for tanning that needs very little fleshing.
I make the opening cuts on the ground and freeing those cuts up a bit, and then hang it up to skin it.

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Man that's impressive, thanks for sharing.

Wow, that's impressive skinning alright, how long from when it was killed to skinning?

If you punch off skin and go outside front legs to start you SHOULD be able to keep said same pink bit on carcase...and shepherd who can't gets given arseholes about it,even if it's just a dog tucker ram. It's skill and pride.that is a very tidy skinning job you have done.

Originally Posted by RUMPY

Wow, that's impressive skinning alright, how long from when it was killed to skinning?

@RUMPY About 24 hours. Was 5C overnight outside

Slow cooked wild goat leg pieces in the crockpot. Seasoned with lemon pepper, thyme, salt and garlic... Browned in the frying pan before being slow cooked til tender; probably about 3 hours

Oh man that is food porn

Greetings @bumblefoot,
Good to see you still cooking up a storm.
Regards Grandpamac.

@grandpamac i'm still about. I've just been a bit AWOL after starting the new job....

I've been MIA recently... I chucked the freelance writing gig in after 18 year. No money in it anymore; so back to butchery again... I've been getting out a bit; hunting for meat and skins (goats). I'm going to get back into tanning skins for clients again (did it professionally for about 10 years back in the day). I'm also going to push my youtube channel hard and do a lot of goat recipes and also rural interviews with interesting folk etc.

Here's the result of a quick hunt yesterday, Two lovely fat goats. They are usually fat in this area. But I'm now picking them for skin colour and succulence!









It's hard to believe that this is a goat shoulder! An amazing amount of fat!

I've been MIA recently... I chucked the freelance writing gig in after 18 year. Ni miney in it anymore; so back to butchery again... I've been getting out a bit' hunting for meat and skins (goats). I'm going to get back into tanning skins for clients again (did it professionally for about 10 years back in the day). I'm also going to push my youtube channel hard and do a lot of goat recipes and also rural interviews with interesting folketc.

Here's the result of a quick hunt yesterday, Two lovely fat goats. They are usually fat in this area. But I'm now picking them for skin colour and succulence!

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It's hard to believe that this is a goat shoulder! An amazing amount of fat!

Apologies for the double post. I'm such a dumb arse... Admins; feel free to delete it...

Great to see your latest post. One of my favourite threads. Put up a link to your channel and will happily subscribe and follow.

@bumblefoot are you still knocking them.over with the 303B?

Good photos thanks Bumblefoot. What is your tanning process?.... a kit?.... bark or some other home-brew recipe? Nice skins. Best wishes from Nelson.

Originally Posted by Sidetrack

Great to see your latest post. One of my favourite threads. Put up a link to your channel and will happily subscribe and follow.

yeah me too