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Originally Posted by Steveo1
so what do you guys do with the meat after? how long can you wait before drying out the pelts? Does a guy make those stretch boards or did you guys buy them?
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I leave the carcass for the magpies. it's fitting.
The hide should be stretched and dried ASAP, within 24 hours in most cases, or frozen.
I make my own boards. I have never found a commercial made stretcher that I liked.
I make mine a lot more complicated the necessary, because I build a flat hinge instead of using a leather strap to hold the two halves together.
The leather works but I find they limit or hinder board movement and they can allow the two boards to fold together like a book. Not good.
I make a flat plywood hinge that would work similar to the black hinge in this photo,
Sorry, I don't have a photo of my hinge and all my boards are up north in my trapping shack.