Does anyone here do any air skinning? It looks like it would make things easier. Are there any down sides to it? Will it do anything to the pelt that will hurt the value?
Maybe this has been covered a bunch but I haven't seen much online.
Tried it a little last year and seemed to work some times and not on others. Just quit messing with it after a while because it didn't seem to be much help if any.
For me it helps a lot with animals that arent fresh. Say you shot a coyote one evening, and wanted to skin it the next day, thats when using air really helps
It's a fun novelty, but doesn't really have any benefit that's worth doing it too often for me. Like others have mentioned, it can speed things up a bit on a cold job, but can also end up blasting you with pee or worse.
If it's really cold out on a cold critter it doesn't help. Tried it on a coyote I shot the night before on a subzero day, froze back to the carcass very quickly. I like using it a lot on ones that aren't fresh.