This article originally ran in the September 1981 issue of Outdoor Life. One of the most valuable parts of a deer is its hide. Unfortunately, thousands of skins are discarded every year because many ...
You’re not a fur trader, so many of the terms—hide, skin, fur, pelt, and buckskin—used to describe the outer coat of wild game animals may seem interchangeable. (And frankly, a lot of them are.) But ...