How To Flesh And Board a Raccoon

[@daveburkitt5287]

Ive scraped thousands in my lifetime north central Illinois was fortunate to have a fur buyer in the town we lived im 65 sure miss it yr doing a great job they look nice

[@nevrbluffs]

For all the beginners before fleshing the hide, make sure all burrs and such are combed out cause they will cause a tear in the pelt while fleshing.

[@pensnut08]

Fantastic system and great job on your fur handling!!

[@nextgentrapper1000]

Thanks

[@UCanDoIt2Mike]

Great job on presenting your process.

[@georgeparrault9945]

Found Your Show Today, You Do Good on Your Instructions, and Encouraging.

[@hillbillytrapperwestvirgin2722]

Nice. I like that angle of beam. Looks like back saver. Need to do that to my beam

[@nextgentrapper1000]

I run a flatter beam than most for that exact reason. Way better on my back

[@robert1duckman573]

Just found your videos love them they are awesome I am really getting into trapping

[@markemert6902]

Hey bud, glad to see you back on here. Enjoyed the video!! Hope all is well!!

[@kevinkerr2876]

Great video Luke,,you make it look easy👍

[@nextgentrapper1000]

Thanks !

[@S.Ham1929]

Good process, man. Love the Bang & shed cat 😂 I'm a Monster Rehab guy myself

[@huntinfishinwithDwayne]

What do you do with the scrapings?

[@mikeslear6291]

Keep up the good work young man.

[@ELaw21]

New to trapping and this was super helpful! Thanks.

[@crowsnestbroadband]

Awesome video! Spot on!

[@robertkreiling1746]

A very well done video on this topic

[@4joutdoors]

Hey Luke, what are your board lengths for 5X and 6X? I can only find Sm through 4X lengths online (NAFA). Thanks! Dug through your channel to find this video again. Tight Chains

[@matthewdement3721]

I’m doing this to display on my shop walls. Is it safe for me to skin the animals such as bobcats coons coyotes and fox then freeze until this summer before I start fleshing the hides and putting on boards?

[@paulsisco7595]

New here good education, probably get this question alot sir what do u do with meat thanks.

[@nextgentrapper1000]

I sell the meat to people that eat it

[@Trappingwithgavyn-k2p]

You are right once they tan it they sometimes cut off the tail off

[@MidwestAntics]

Do you salt your hides at all?

[@Textstorymode]

What do you after taking it of the boured

[@curtiz516]

Great video! So you can sell the balculum?

[@IllinoisOutdoors318]

You should give us a full tour of the skinning shed

[@nextgentrapper1000]

I have a video on it already bud. It’s called updated fur shed tour. Should hopefully show ya everything you wanna see

[@danklayum4808]

What happens to all the flesh fat ?

[@nextgentrapper1000]

Gets dumped in a hole

[@mariolopez-ri8wd]

I learn something today on that mineral spirit looks lots cleaner ..ex video

[@fowllab]

Wow, that 4X definitely had some fat on it. Good information on the process.

[@ballistic350]

Awesome ..keeping an old tradition alive.

[@nextgentrapper1000]

Absolutely!

[@rangepro]

WOW>>>>>>>>>awesome! Question..............what do you do with the flushing fat?

[@nextgentrapper1000]

Dump it in a hole with the tractor

[@LiveMoreOutdoors]

Impressive

[@spencerrieder9395]

What’s next after all of this?

[@nextgentrapper1000]

Let them dry for 5-7 days and then they all get hung on a hanger until I sell em

[@g2skinny]

Good video dude

[@peterparsons7141]

Really interesting!

[@canislatrans8285]

Even though I have fleshed and boarded hundreds of them, I always enjoy seeing how others do it. I also do the thing where you run something down the newly boarded to get that last bit of fats off. I rub sawdust over the dried pelt instead of mineral spirits, to catch that grease. How many 5x do you have? What do they sell for ( #1's)?

[@nextgentrapper1000]

I’ll end up with around 20-30 5x this year. Good ones r 20$

[@Sam-gf1eb]

That's a lot of raccoons.

[@ottercat8527]

Dont have the belly for it ....... what a prick ! 🤣Good vid !

[@nextgentrapper1000]

Thanks buddy lol!

[@bradbarnes9241]

Wow super labor intensive

[@Jamessblond87]

What do you do with all the flesh in the buckets ?

[@nextgentrapper1000]

Dump it in a hole

[@calvinhoward2407]

Buyers can tell a hide that has been taken good care of.

[@securem3]

What do you do with all the fat/waste?

[@ontae1986]

What do you do with them afterwards? Sell'em or make stuff?

[@nextgentrapper1000]

I sell em

[@ontae1986]

@@nextgentrapper1000 Hell yeah brother

[@jimstewart6145]

nice job.

[@firstnamelastname8951]

Do you put anything for hair loss ?

[@nextgentrapper1000]

Nope once they r dry they r preserved

[@OrinBeavers]

I have been watching you for about two years and I like how you teach people and take your time doing it i have a question how wide are your boards at the bottom i bought a guy out and I got a lot of new boards but think they are not wide enough great video keep them videos coming 👍👍🇺🇲

[@jackriley5974]

A lot of work for $5?

[@johncombs1061]

Real life Hank Hill

[@morganillsley94]

I noticed you don't spend a lot of time or any on the head.. Am I missing something? or do they just not have a bunch of fat on their heads?..Thanks!👍👍

[@nextgentrapper1000]

There is no value on the head for the fur market. I take the cheek meat off if any and move on. For tanning I would get it cleaner but for fur market the head has no value so it doesn’t need to be scraped. Hope this helps

[@dwightherrington7793]

I do this every year

[@mntengr301]

Lot of work iam way too lazzy

[@matthewgibbs6886]

omg look at all those trash pandas the horror

[@chuckg6723]

Nest raiders. The Michigan DNR has said the number one predator of the wild turkey is the raccoon 🦝

[@Jackson1601]

Hi

[@jwslks]

Do you ever sleep 😂? You’re running a tremendous trapline and then skinning and fleshing the pelts. You must be related to Donald J Trump….he gets by with 4 to 5 hours of sleep 😴 and I’m betting you are not getting much more than that either. 🤣🤣🤣

[@preparedsurvivalist2245]

Not trying to belittle someones means of making a living, but I take home $1000 in 4 days work, sleeping half that time. Let's say you get $20 per pelt. 100 pelts is $2000. No you pay taxes, and fur license fees, gas to drive to the market and to check traps, buying traps, knives, boards, tools, and supplies. And that's just the overhead. Now lets factor ALL the time it takes to trap, skin, flesh, board, and take to market all these hides. You couldn't possibly be earning more than $5 per hour after all that. I mean, am I missing something here? How is it worth it?

[@nextgentrapper1000]

Good for you. Trapping isn’t about money anymore it’s about carrying on a tradition that this country was built on

[@jffry890]

Nothing wrong with working for some extra beer money.

[@jcwarrior2788]

Ya that's how I look at it ik I probably spend more on gas just taking them to get sold but shoot its more of just doing it for the tradition factor and because I like hunting and trapping and fishing....Plus idk about any of you but a Gall dang coon can be a menace and if we didn't cull them like this every year you'd have coons living in your addict there would be so many around it would be insane...once you have delft with the destruction I have from coons then you wouldn't think trapping was a waste of time...Like who doesn't want some extra beer money anyways?... The traps and the gear pay for themselves after you accumulate some your not spending to much on it so it's all worth it in the end.. Keep doing good work neighbor and I'll stay watchin an learnin from ya over here in Minnesota this is my first year trapping coons so I have a ways ta go but it's been working and I have fun doin it...

[@securem3]

Good vid/info