Do y'all hang your deer to skin by the back legs or the neck? I used to hang them from the back legs until my brother in law showed me hanging it by it's neck is way easier. Also gutting is a lot cleaner - no guts get caught up in the rib cage when hung by the neck. This doesn't really matter much though since I field dress them anyways.
Been hanging them by the neck since the late 70s, using the golf ball method of skinning, though we use a hammer instead of a golf ball. We field dress also, though now we drag it home first so the dogs and chickens can eat the gut pile.
With this chicken skinner clamp, it works like the golf ball method, which leaves little to no hair on the deer carcass. Skinning the birds off the butchering table leaves my butchering surface cleaner, gives me a carcass with no feather residue on it and a cleaner carcass all around. I'm loving it!
Also, now using a new way of gutting my chickens, which also speeds up the whole process.
I'm going to have my son devise me a chicken wringer, styled much like the rabbit wringer but for chickens. I'll be able to do dislocation of the neck, switch the bird around to hang it by the foot in the same apparatus for decapitation and a bleed out, then on to the skinning.
Right now, I'm also building me an outside sink setup that it movable, utilizing an old metal youth bed and an old sink, and may mount the skinner and wringer on the unit for ergonomics.
