Best way to do big game...find a hunter and ask him/her for scraps. Then I don' t have to mess with it.

Ducks get plucked, all else get skinned. I like to eat the skin on ducks. Borax works for me to dry them out faster.

I have a ton of deer skin, some elk. An entire pronghorn antelope. Duck feathers buy the baggie, with more coming in now (wood duck swap coming soon).