First time poster: Rattlesnake skin.
So I grew up drying and tanning mammal skins, most of my life, whether it was deer, bobcats, foxes, squirrels or rabbits. Familiar with the general process but its been a few years since ive done anything.
I've never done a reptile before. I was given a deceased rattlesnake on Wednesday, I skinned it and ate the rattlesnake meat. But the skin I just salted, rolled it up and put it in the refrigerator. Because I wasn't really sure how to dry and tan it... It is very clearly different from mammalian skin, much thinner and the scales make me nervous about using normal techniques. Just a casual hide tanner. Certainly no expert even with mammal hides, mostly self taught.
Anyways, looking for maybe a very quick rudimentary Step-by-step guide to get it preserved(doesn't need to be perfect) I just want to avoid letting it go to waste and would prefer to do it with minimal material costs for tanning supplies. I trust redditors much more than Google when it comes to stuff like this. Online seems like a lot of either misinformation, or over the top "museum level" methods that are way too detailed for me, or at worst: just people trying to sell you products.
Do I just stretch it out and dry it in the Sun as normal? Or do I need to dry it slower? What can I use to tan it with once it's dry? Stuff like that.