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Old 04-08-2012, 01:46 AM
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Originally Posted by Steveo1 View Post
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?
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.
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