In reply to David Barratt:
I'll ask my daughter who lives in Canada how the mule deer hide is getting on (it was nailed to the outside of the old cabin last summer).
One of her friends who is half 'First Nations' reckoned she'd done a pretty good job with it.
It did involve a lot of elbow grease, salt and scraping.
She's also cleaned and dried the hide off the cow they used to have after it was consigned to the freezer.
She did draw a 'line in the sand' when it came to trying to do anything with the hide from their goat -- though apparently the meat was OK. That goat had to be the smelliest most disgusting creature on the earth.
All in all she's done pretty well for a 'reformed' vegetarian.
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