Grouse Cleaning

[Calum]

Stand with feet shoulder-width apart and bend your knees slightly. Still squeezing, raise rabbit over your head and swing down sharply striking your forearms on your thighs. Entrails will fly 'out the in door' onto the ground!

Methinks the potential for much camp silliness is great with this idea.

 

[northwoodslivin]

If you might be huntin' bunnies too, here's a slick trick to gut them without a knife. This originally came from an OLD farmers almanac:

Hold the rabbit heard up and wrap both hands around the chest just under the front legs squeezing tightly with thumbs and forefingers.

Slowly work your hands down the ribcage squeezing tightly until your hands slip over the bottom of the ribs.

Stand with feet shoulder-width apart and bend your knees slightly. Still squeezing, raise rabbit over your head and swing down sharply striking your forearms on your thighs. Entrails will fly 'out the in door' onto the ground!

I laughed when I first heard about it, and had to try it myself. It works like a hot d@mn!

Happy Huntin!

that sound's crazy. I kind of have the mental picture in my head on how to do it as you explained. I also head that if you make a slit in the back of a rabbit, that you can put your fingers inside "under the skin" and pull each way with each hand and you can clean a rabbit this way. Doe's that sound right?

Thank's for the tip!

 

[atr]

We have a C.O. around here that will bust you for allowing game meat to spoil if you use the stand on the wings , pull the legs method of cleaning grouse if you leave the legs behind . He often partners up with an OPP officer that loves laying seat belt charges . You could be 30 miles in a logging road driving 10 kph and he'll jump out of the bush to see if you have your seatbelt on .

 

[northwoodslivin]

k, ill take the legs with me then lol.

 

[NW Redneck]

It's definitely easier to show someone than to describe it! The trick is to get all the guts squished as far to the rear as you can before you do the 'whack'.

The first time I tried it I was hunting with my father in law. I told him what I was going to try and he laughed at me. Once he saw it himself his jaw dropped! And he's been a trapper for 30 odd years. He had to go find another rabbit to shoot just so he could try it! Im not sure about 'cleaning' the way you describe, but I've skinned them like that. They peel really easy when still warm.

 

[Calum]

We have a C.O. around here that will bust you for allowing game meat to spoil if you use the stand on the wings , pull the legs method of cleaning grouse if you leave the legs behind . He often partners up with an OPP officer that loves laying seat belt charges . You could be 30 miles in a logging road driving 10 kph and he'll jump out of the bush to see if you have your seatbelt on .

Reason #9999.9 subsection (b) to never move to Ontario.

Like would it be better in a land fill then out in the woods feeding their precious Bears?

Not trying to insult fellow Ontario Hunter GunNutz, just suprised at the never ending CaRp you folks have to put up with.

 

[northwoodslivin]

Ah your not insulting us. We know our province is reged up the arse. Come on harper! do your job lol... cough cough.. ya right

 

[macka]

We have a C.O. around here that will bust you for allowing game meat to spoil if you use the stand on the wings , pull the legs method of cleaning grouse if you leave the legs behind . He often partners up with an OPP officer that loves laying seat belt charges . You could be 30 miles in a logging road driving 10 kph and he'll jump out of the bush to see if you have your seatbelt on .

Ol' BS still working? He did his routine on me and Tom D. (maybe you know him from GKA)out by kakabeka. He pulled us over, checked my DL, FAC and checked my permit to see if it was kosher, searched my truck, checked my shells, checked my gun to see if the plug was in, ran my plates, and gave me a stern lecture on making sure I had permission to hunt on private proprerty. I guess I shouldn't picked so many fights with his son when we played hockey. Like father like son eh? He was with const. A of the KB detachment, who's now in wawa, and still checking seatbelts lol.