Howdy, Brother! This is the best and most detailed, respectful tanning instruction on the market. The time and effort you put into this lesson is very much appreciated. Thank you and Drive-On, Cowboy!! 🤠

Thank you for taking the immense amount of time that it probably took to make this video, walking us through the steps needed. I've got two whitetail hides that were in need of rescue, I'm like, now what do I do? I love deer, they are majestic in their own way. (The hides came from two deer who had been hit nearby our property. It's a drive that, unless ill, I make daily. The first, a buck, had been there for about 36 hours in below-freezing temps before I decided to go for it; he was frozen when I cut him open. The second, a doe, was there for about 6 hours. I couldn't leave them there to rot like the garbage flying around. So I determined to get the hides, to give them SOME dignity. Sounds silly, I'm sure, but that's the way I see it.) I put the capes in the freezer and voila, here I am.

I grew up in the Shuswap area (Gardom) - thanks so much for putting the time and energy into this tutorial - I'm glad I stumbled upon it. I live on the North Coast now - hunting moose, blacktail, and goats. I will indeed be tanning some blacktail hides next season thanks to your inspiration!

Really great video. Fantastic job explaining the how and why of each step. I hadn't considered doing this before, but you've made me rethink things.

I just used your method on 4 whitetail hides I had sitting in the freezer for a few years. Worked great. Thank you!

No way! Im working on a my first buck right now and I am from enderby. cant believe you made this from right down the road. Thanks for the info I learned a lot. Currently at the tanning stage and will sand it like you did afterwards

Fantastic guide! I have previously tanned hides, and my results were not as good as yours. I plan to use your instructions later this year, and hope to see a massive improvement in my hides. Thanks so much!

Thanks. I did my first whitetail hide a few years ago and it turned out well. Considering doing more and appreciate your video to improve my technique.

Fantastic video! I really appreciate your attention to detail and use of tools that us amateurs may already own. I'm working on my first ever tanning project; a whitetail. I was dreading the thought of needing special equipment to stretch and break the hide. Your video relieves much of that anxiety. You have a new Sub here!

I've been on the hunt for the most canadian video on youtube, so thank you so much for posting this!

Best tanning video I’ve seen Been watching many to get this right. Thanks to you I’m more confident than ever

Great video, this is the first I have seen from start to finish. I have some hides I want to do with hair on and will follow this example you have given. Thanks again, new subscriber.

Amazing, just what I am looking for. Thank you for sharing and your attention to details. My 2 time trying to process the hide myself turned into disastres and waste of deer hide. Now, I can retry with confidence.

I jumped into tanning hides because of a steer i loved. I am doing several deer right now and appreciate your explanations and the why behind them. I am ordering some safety pickle, I did order a kit, but I am saving it for the steer.

Outstanding video. I have a bear hide and would very much love to see how you do it. Please keep the informative videos coming. You can really tell your passion and love for your work, and teaching others. Once again, THANK YOU

Hi. I am from all the way The Netherlands and I hunt in Germany. I have a really nice thick hide from a roe deer which I tan at home. I am using a recipe from a taxidermist. So far everything goes fine. I watched your video and just confirms that I am doing it the right way, although I have some of my own habits. I have already tanned several hides, but not all are very souple. So I hope this time it is somewhat more flexible. Good idea of sanding the hide. I did that too with one of my previous ones. By hand, that is. Not with a machine. Thanks for the video!!

Awesome instructional video. Ordering the products that you suggested now. Subscribed, thank you

Really informative video! I also would be interested seeing a black bear hide done! Thank you for great content.

Came for the info, stayed of the undying eye contact and comedy. Skunks haha nice one pal. This vid was great, all the best from the Highlands of Scotland!

Very thorough explanation. Thank You. Yes, would like to know about doing bear hides.

Great work! Thanks for this. Nice Bruins pullover!

Thanks for the informative video! I wish I would've seen this video before rifle season this year because the indefinite use of the pickle bath is really appealing. I had my skins in a salt bath for a couple of weeks and I'm worried they're past the point of no return now. I did have a question about any maintenance the skins might need. Is there anything you do to the skins several years down the road? Or do they keep well enough after your tanning method?

I’ve been wanting to give this a try for a while. Any advantages to fleshing after it’s been in the pickle for 72 hours? As far as I can tell, most people flesh before the pickle.

Great video! Thanks for taking the time to make it. I have a question if ya don't mind, how much of the citric acid would you use in the pickling for whitetail

awesome video! really considering trying this. would love to see you do a step by step predator hide

Excellent video! Thank you for taking the time to show each step and explain. I plan to do some of this in the very near future. I would be very interested in seeing how you do coyote hides or bobcat. I plan to get into hunting predators and would like to tan some of them up and make a nice coat as well as some other projects. Thanks again!! (subscribed)

Great video. Very well done and informative. Any pros or cons for fleshing before the pickle bath? Is one harder than the other? Fleshing afterwards almost appeared easier. Also how much do you sand the hide at the end? Thanks.

Dude that bear mount is nice 👍🏻. Great video

Definitely interested in black bear! Great video about pickling. Never really understood it till now.

Thank you from a fellow outdoorsman down here in Pennsylvania. I’m going to do this project with my kids. I appreciate you show this process. I’d love to see you tan a bear hide. I think there would be a lot of interest in that. Thanks again!

I just started trapping last year I was lucky to have gotten a coyote on my very first trap I smoked and tanned it fur is in good shape but it has a strong odor to it what should I do it is soft and hair is tight. Thank you much for any help

Great video. I used to do turkey and skulls. I have some deer capes and coyotes I want to do for my son. This is a great a great video again Thx.

This video is very helpful! I shot my first deer this season and am working on tanning the hide. Thank you!

Great video, very informative. I would love to see a video on predator hides!

Great video on a easy way to tan the hides I would be interested in the predator hide tan I’d like to do one

Great video and thank you by the way!

Thank you so much for the outstanding video! I wish I had found this before starting my first tanning project. Tanning a coyote hide for my wife to use, and the measurement of the salt bath I was advised to use was off, and started to lose fur, so I put it in the freezer until I could find a solution. I will try to save it now. If you have the time, I would appreciate tips on coyote tanning. I'm subscribing to your page now... Thank you so much!

Thank you for this video! I will be trying to tan my own hide this year for the first time ever, and I will definitely be using your process! I just feel like I've always wasted so much of the animal in the past, and I no longer want to do that. I want to use as much of the animal as possible so nothing goes to waste. Also I would definitely be interested in seeing a predator video! Maybe something like a coyote or bobcat, thanks!!

Thank you for this instructional video!

Excellent video. Great soft skin at the end. Definitely want to see The predator version.

Very nice video my friend, thanks for sharing all your experience. I’ll give it a try with a coyote to see how well it goes.

Great video. Thank you for sharing this information.

Wow! Great video! Thank you for sharing. Question about the tanning oil. Do you only put it on once? Another question would a finer grit sanding paper be good too? Could I go with 100 or 220? Or would it take much longer? I also would love to see a video on a predator. My Dad has always said he would love to have a coyote hide.

Awesome video! What steps would you add to remove fur if someone wanted to make buckskin?

Great video! I just started a mule deer and black tail hides that I’ve had in the freezer for several years. I’d like to see the degreasing process for predators and beaver if it’s any different.

Thanks so much! I am going to do my very first buck soon, going to do a doe first to get the process down, he is like twice the size of a big doe

Would love to see a black bear! I have one that I want to do this process to. Is the degreasing step added to the pickle?

Nice job. I've been wondering what to to do with a white tail skin in my freezer. I will try this. Cheers!

Just come across your channel and subscribed , great info. Yes please do the predator tan , im wanting to do a coyote trapper hat , and maybe some othe things. Thanks for your vids.

Awesome video! Thank you!

Thanks for your post, appreciate the detail and explanation. Question: During the pickle stage, (about 11:00 of your video) the emphasis on skin down and insuring contact with fluid, could a press or device be used to "hold everything under the solution" ? I envision a plastic grate or similar that would push hide under solution and insure contact. (or is this just overkill and not necessary? 😁) Thanks

When do you apply the sun tan lotion ando you just rub it on like with your hands ?

Great video, thank you. If I skin a deer in the field and will be four or five days getting back home, will I be able to roll the hide up and keep it on ice. Do I need to salt it also? Thank you

Getting the hide really thin helps allot !

Thanks for the video! Very Cool. Are the ingredients/instructions listed anywhere? Blog, Description, etc?

1st one will be this year and your way. Nothing to loose and EVERYTHING to gain. Ihope when i get on my computer i can pull all the products used up and locate then. Thanks for all you do. Do you have a plan for your fleshing board?

Can you use Neatsfoot oil in the final step when stretching?

great video. I have a cinnamon black bear I'm going to do. But I'm doing a test run with my daughters mule deer doe. I used a pressure washer to remove the fat and skinning left overs on the deer hide. Worked amazingly well. Have you ever tried that method?

Very Nice video! Big interess into black Bear fur tanning

Awesome job know I want to do my next white tail thanks

Definitely eould like to see a bear hide video just pulled my first to deer skins out of the pickle. Thanks for your tutorial.

Great video brother.

i’m doing bison hides, would i just put the tanning solution on thicker

open Q and A is it warmer to make hide fur clothes fur in facing the human or fur out

great video. did i hear you correctly, that all those hides (except predators) followed the same protocol? thanks!

great video, after watching numerus others I tried my first sheep skin and the fur slipped, very disappointing. I am ready to try again, is there anything different for a sheep skin? Are these tanned hides washable?

Amazing! How much water would you recommend for an elk hide?

Did you do an initial fleshing on it?

Great video! I did a coyote and a moose hide my next ones that I have to do is a white tail, Red Fox and 2 Bision hides lots and lots of salt I need! Thanks for all the great tips I will try on some of my tanning that I do ! Cheers!

Holy lord that bear mount is massive and amazing.

If it’s going to be a week before you can start, can you put the hide in a freezer?

Do a video on the predator hide! Great video!

How do I keep my deer skin safe until the materials come in the tan it? I just ordered the salt, safety acid, ph strips, and trubond 1000B tanning oil.

What did I do wrong that my edges are super hard? Is that cuz I didn't stretch it enough? Too much Tanning oil?

Amazing video brother, could you point me in the direction on where to purchase your tanning solutions? Thank you

Is the process the same for all animals? I want to tan rabbit hides, deer and coyotes hides I have? Great video and thank you so much. Your mounts are all awesome. God bless you

Can you put a list of everything you used and where you got it from?

Please show the process for black bear or point me to a good resource. I have plans to do one in the future. Thanks

Honestly I have lots of questions. I want to do this going forward for all the deer I kill. Is the pickle bath ratio for only one hide? Or could I put more hides in one 7-gallon pickle?

For the stretching part, couldn't you build a frame with 2X4's and use 550 cord to stretch it out?

Going to give this a go next season. Though I cannot get over how much you look like Jim Halpert from The Office in this vid. It was hard to concentrate because I kept having flashbacks.

How did u clean the dirt out of the hair of the goats?

I have an old washing machine and it works great

Great video! Yes, please do a predator tanning video as well 👏

I have a hide that I threw in the freezer straight from skinning it. Can I put a frozen hide into the pickle and let it thaw in that or should I try to thaw it first and then pickle?

What are some ideas to do with these tanned hides?

Can u post a list on supplies and amounts needed?

Yes show us a predator tan please! Thank you!

hi, what oil are you using?

Figured I'd make the short list of ingredients for those of you interested:

Where did you purchase your supplies? Please share the name of your supplier!!!Great Video!!!!

Is the process the same for a cowhide?

I'd be curious to see what it would take to do a bison hide.

would love to see how to do a pred. Im form Texas and have lots of bobcats and yotes.

How do you maintain hide over time

Could you work it over the fleshing bench to stretch it instead?

Will this process work on cow hide?

My understanding is that you should salt every hide because the salt is what kills the bacteria. I know there is a way to tan without salting but was under the impression that that process was only for if you don't have salt.

I am having problems finding the safety pickle.

very informative. I'd be interested in the predator back skin. have some coyote skins! thanks