How To Skin A Bear For A Rug Diagram

Cut through the joint with the serrated knife to separate the wrist from the body.

How to skin a bear for a rug diagram.

Separating the skin from the gums skin down the snout until the nose cartilage is reached. The diagram is pretty self explanatory on how and where to make your cuts. Stop at the base of each front paw. Find the joint where the wrist bone reaches the base of the paw.

Make sure you don t cut the bear all the way to the chin on the third cut. Try to get the hide to a taxidermist or into a freezer right away within one day in warm weather or two days in cool weather. Cut down through the nose cartilage at the dotted line g separating the hide from the skull. It all depends on how big the bear is but you can see about where to start and stop the third cut.

This is a basic tutorial of how to skin a bear for a bear rug. Cut around the pads of the feet skin the paws and cut the claws along with the hide. If you cannot skin. I guess we will start with bear rug first.

Make an incision from the chest along the inside of the front legs until you reach the paws. On the second cut make your cut directly through the anus.