I was talking to someone the`other day. I told him how unplesent it can be skinning a hog on August in Texas. He told me that someone had told him that you can take a basketball air needle and hook it up to a compressor and stick it under the skin and inflate the skin away from the muscle making it much easier to skin. I don't now if this is B.S. or not but I can't wait to shoot a pig. I will video tape it. Either it will work or not but it will definantly be youtube worthy.

ya you can buy kit that has a couple diffrent size needles to. I saw one on one of the outdoor shows on outdoor channel showed them. I use two ropes and a truck to do mine. but then again some people say I'm lazy. I'm NOT I'm motivationaly challenges a weel as spellen challenged

Charles, from your link--

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"Box cutter down the back...Remove feet and "easy" skin down..
Remove back strap, Hams and fours....rolling one side to the other.....A small slit past the rib cage and you can reach in and work out the poison glands by hand....Quick, easy and no big mess with a lot less blood and hair on the meat!!!"

Poison Glands??!!

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Poison Glands??!!

Tenderloins...most likely!

Damn, knew ya could us an AC to skin turtles, never thought about a hog.

Mad Dog

I had the chance to try it in south Texas a few years back. It works great. You can just skin the hog in strips from one end to the other. It is much easier. If you just skin right away they are pretty easy to skin anyway though.

Bob

Here is one all "blown up" just before I stared skinning him.