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In this short clip, Steve will show you his way to butcher your own deer.

We caught a big catfish and my buddy Ryan is going to teach us how to skin it right at the boat ramp. These flathead are renowned for their "belly meat." This is a big one, but you can use this method with any size catfish. It works best if you have a standard fillet knife and an electric fillet...

This video shows to skin a raccoon for commercial fur harvest. Clay Newcomb displays how to use two green sticks to strip the tail off the bone, and also talks about using a tail stripper.

If you want know how to skin a squirrel in under a minute--you're in luck. The Batesville Method: the squirrel-skinning technique that MeatEater's Clay Newcomb learned from a buddy who lives Batesville, Arkansas.