I gotta give you a hard time! If you read my reply, I just said "practice on the 'coon" I never said whether you hit it or missed. I wondered what the "pop" was when we were talking.
Good thing you got that Nutria, they are like huge muskrats.
What'd you get the beaver with?
Yeah, they ARE hard to skin. Now you gotta flesh the hide. I know you don't have the equpiment to do that, so just take the hide, roll it up, put it in a plastic bag and put it in your freezer until you get the proper tools. I'll send you an e-mail with links to the tools you'll need.