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Originally Posted by Red Bullets
It has always baffled me why hides of big game are allowed to be wasted. Even tanning just one hide pays for the year's hunts.
One year I had hunters save me their moose and elk hides and I had 10 moose hides and 3 elk commercially tanned. I sold those hides for double the cost of tanning and the fellow that bought them made many pairs little booties for new born infants. I was happy, the buyer was happy and the new born infants were comfortably happy. It didn't have to be about the profits but rather the utilization of a great natural resource.
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That is fantastic.
Leaving the hide in the bush always felt wasteful to me. I know at one time I would just drop off my raw deer hide to Halford's because they donated them to indigenous craftsmen at one time. Not sure if they do that anymore.