Salting needs to be done as soon as possible once the flesh has been removed from the hide. If so, you can skip this step as salting the hide is a preservation method to stave off decomposition and buy you extra time until you can tan the hide. Unless you have all of the materials necessary to tan your hide immediately, you’ll need to salt the hide. This can be done with a fleshing tool, a smoothed and burnished rib bone, or a curved stick that you’ve sanded and smoothed. Once the hide is removed, you’ll need to clean it, taking care to remove as much remaining tissue and fat from the hide as possible. (Don’t worry about bullet holes, as you can repair those later or work around them, depending on how you’ll be using the hide.) The only difference is that you’ll want to take extra care to ensure your cuts are smooth and straight and that you don’t punch any holes in the hide. This will be much the same as you normally would. As such, when tanning leather, there are extra steps that are taken to remove the hair, hair follicles, and membrane layers. The process is different, as with tanning a hide there are extra steps that need to be taken to ensure the hair doesn’t fall out. These tips and instructions will be for tanning a hide with the hair intact, not for producing smooth hairless leather.
Then again, given the nature of hunting and all that it demands, I’d feel safe to say that a person with such a delicate nature isn’t really meant for hunting in the first place. If you’re the kind of person who’s easily grossed out by gooey textures and pungent smells, then tanning hides really isn’t for you. Tanning hides is a relatively simple process, but it takes some effort and is messy.
Plus, it gives me a little extra cash in my pocket should I choose to sell the tanned hide, leather, or goods that I’ve made. This gives me leather and fur that I can then use to make clothing, bags, belts, blankets, or as wall hangings to showcase the effort I’ve put in as a hunter and pay tribute to the animal. This also means that I like to save the hides and going through the work of thoroughly drying and tanning them. That means taking extra steps to make sure that: I’ve kept as much of the meat as possible to fill my freezer and belly I’ve salvaged as much fat off the animal as I can to make lard for cooking and for making salves and ointments and I've cooked down the bones for broth for soups and roasts. but when it comes to hunting, I like to use as much of the animal as possible.
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