As children in school we were often taught, Native Americans used every part of an animal when butchering, from nose to tail. Nothing was wasted, not even bones or sinew. In today’s world we buy our choice cuts from the ...
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The Easiest Way To Preserve And Tan Hides
I will admit I have never been much of a trapper. But every hunter, farmer, homesteader and so on should know how to handle hides. When we butcher a deer, elk, bear, cow or any large mammal, we don’t just ...
Read More »Use Your Brains: Tan Your Hides
A lot of preppers are into supplementing their food supply through hunting and trapping. Along with meat, each animal you take also provides you with a pelt if you wish to take advantage of it. Brain tanning relies on the ...
Read More »Tanning Hides at Home
You don’t have to spend hundreds of dollars for high-priced material made from animal pelts. You can tan hides at home and save money. If your family is going back to the basics, you don’t want to go to the ...
Read More »Rabbits: Tanning Hides for Beautiful Furs
The idea of wearing fur (or making anything with fur) has some negative connotations in modern society, but fur is a natural by-product of raising meat rabbits. Anyone interested in the back-to-basic lifestyle knows that it is important to make ...
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