There are still people who don't mess with this however. how big or small they are.they have bins outside the store during deer season.to collect the hides. this is a accross the board price.don't matter how bad the hides cut up. obviousy they must be getting at least 5 bucks or more form the buyer who takes the hides ultimately.
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Plus a entry into a contest where the prize is a 4 wheeler or some thing like a gun. a flat 5 dollar coupon for merchandise in the store to bring in their hides. Theisens Farm stores.Farm & fleet farm stores and a lot of sporting goods stores.offer hunters. they go around to locker plants & pick up the offal.Īround here in the midwest. We have a co called National By products that picks up all the bones, blood, guts etc etc.and processes them into supplements.in the town I am from. Usually if you want sheep skins they will just give them to you to as sheep skins can't be thrown in with the other stuff.They will spoil it. and whatever else one might need as well as hides if you want them. Yes if you can establish a good repor with a processor. I didn't have to give him $ up front after that year and I have been getting all of his hides for the last 9 years. At the end of the season I picked them up and payed the rest. I payed one guy $100 up front for all of his deer hides. They like that because it shows them I am serious about taking their hides and establishes a level of trust. If at the end of the season I don't pick up the hides they keep my deposit. Then offer them a non-refundable deposit up front for their hides. Try to decipher if they seem like they are doing a fair skinning job. Based on these purchases the company exports the following material: Wet Blue and Wet Salted Cattle Hides. What I have done is contact all of the meat cutters within a reasonable drive that I could do round trip in one day. Cape Produce Company currently handles approx. America where a person shouldn't be able to find deer hides if they take the time and put out some effort to look? Every state and province has deer hunting don't they? Caribou in the far north. $15 sounds like a reasonable price to me for someone to pay who has not done the leg work to find their own local sources. Considering the gas money and the whole day and a half I spend getting them and putting them away at home, I am probably losing money by asking $10 a piece. I sell them to other hide tanners from time to time for $10 a piece. This same cutter hauled 30 moose and elk hides to the dump this year because nobody wanted them. I have to drive 3 hours each way to get them so I go once at the end of the season and get all of them in one load. I have another cutter that salts and saves his deer hides for me till the season is over. I actually get paid to haul them away with the waste from the local cutter. No tanneries within any reasonable shipping distance that will make it worth your while. There is no hide buyer who picks them up (except me). Where I live deer hides are virtually worthless. Then people can decide if they want to pay that or not. 5220 - 1A Street S.E Calgary, Alberta T2H 1J1 Canada. Ideal drum cover rawhides.If some one is selling something, the price is whatever they need to get in order to make it worth their while. Reference our leather terminology and glossary for a comprehensive guide to types of leathers and different Grains to be aware of. As these are wild hunted skins, they will have some range marks, bullet holes and some knife cuts. Elk rawhide will average 15-18 sq.ft and are somewhat heavier in weight. Deerskin rawhides are smaller and average 10-15 sq ft and are also lighter in weight than Elk.
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The deerskin rawhide and elk skin rawhide are lighter in weight and come in a natural amber color. Great for larger drum covers and where a heavier rawhide is required or rawhide lacing. Cowhide RawhideĬowhide rawhides are the largest skin with the most thickness, 3-5 oz and average 15-18 sqft in dry condition or about 6 ft long by 3 ft wide. Refer to care of rawhides article for care instructions of finished rawhide products. Weight thickness will vary depending the type of animal skin. They are primarily used for drum making, lampshades, snowshoe webbing, rawhiding of wooden saddle trees as well as rawhide lacing for lashing on log furniture etc. Bleaching rawhides for cosmetic whitening will weaken the hide fibre leading to splitting of the grain once dried over time. We stock only in natural amber colour which is the strongest type.
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Upon rewetting and soaking the rawhide leather skin, it can then be stretched and worked in damp condition before re-drying. They have have been chemically de-haired, cured, then stretched and dried for further processing. Natural Rawhide Leather available in Cowhide, Deerskin, Elk Skin and GoatskinĪll rawhide leather hides are supplied in uncut condition and priced per hide.