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From: roa@davinci.acc.virginia.edu (Robert O. Anderson Jr)
Newsgroups: rec.hunting
Subject: Re: skinning wild pigs
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Date: 15 Apr 91 12:34:15 GMT
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In article <531@erb1.engr.wisc.edu> you write:
>
>	I am hoping to go pig hunting one of these days and I have a
>question about cleaning them. A book that I have says that you need to
>dip them in a barrel of scalding hot water and scrape the bristles off
>before skinning them.  Now, I very seldom take a barrel of scalding
>hot water with me when I go hunting. Is this really necessary, and if
>so, why?
>

You dip them in hot water to make the hair easier to remove. If
they're not in the water long enough, the hair will be hard to remove,
if they're in too long, it'll set the hair. You just have to take them
out and see... you can always put 'em back in. Canning lids make
excellent scrapers. And, of course, the water has to be the right
temperature....like my old man used to say," drag two fingers through
the water 3 times and if it hurts, but doesn't hurt too bad, then it's
just right."  We always scalded them before gutting them. Yes, it's
necessry, unless you like the smell of burned hair.....

Bobby

>	Steven Hunter
>	Hunter@es.net