I wonder if every hunter is supposed to be good at skinning game.
- Thread starter p226
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Nope....I've seen some of really good (experienced) hunters, that will really screw up game when trying to clean/skin it. From looking at you're other thread you will most likely be hunting small game.
Small game can go from real easy to downright frustrating for a new hunter. My first two kills, when I first started hunting were...Grouse and Hare (rabbit) respectively.
The Grouse is very easy to clean...step on the wings...pull on the legs...voila. You've just turned the little bugger inside out, now all you have to do is cut the neck, wings and legs off...you're in business.
The rabbit was not so easy and I won't even try to explain it. Your best bet would be to get a good book on the subject or get an experienced hunter to help you out.
Good Luck.
Small game can go from real easy to downright frustrating for a new hunter. My first two kills, when I first started hunting were...Grouse and Hare (rabbit) respectively.
The Grouse is very easy to clean...step on the wings...pull on the legs...voila. You've just turned the little bugger inside out, now all you have to do is cut the neck, wings and legs off...you're in business.
The rabbit was not so easy and I won't even try to explain it. Your best bet would be to get a good book on the subject or get an experienced hunter to help you out.
Good Luck.
- Location
- Lakes District BC
its like going to bingo and saying EWWWW I dont like dabbing the cards or taking a picture without any film 
part of the way life is
part of the way life is
p226 said:so it seems I have to learn clean entrails first then go hunting
Would be a good idea. I don't know much about the laws where you are but I'm pretty sure it would be illegal to just shoot something and leave it there to rot. Also, half the fun of hunting is enjoying your catch with some gravy later on.
Something else you could do is find someone to go hunting with that doesn't mind doing all the cleaning. I've done this for some of my friends who get a little queasy around blood.
- Location
- Ft. Mac. Alberta
"The work begins after the animal is down" is a common phrase, and many hunters have never learned to do it properly, one reason why I made some good coin while guiding ,and afterwards when work was slow when I was younger.
A properly caped head and skinned paws go a long way to making a goood mount as opposed to one that costs a bunch more becuase of the extra work that the taxidermist has to do.
As far as field dressing and butchering goes, same thing.
It can make the ddifference between good tasting meat and lousy stuff that the dogs wwon't go near!
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A properly caped head and skinned paws go a long way to making a goood mount as opposed to one that costs a bunch more becuase of the extra work that the taxidermist has to do.
As far as field dressing and butchering goes, same thing.
It can make the ddifference between good tasting meat and lousy stuff that the dogs wwon't go near!
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- Location
- SW Ontario
Go down to a small butcher store and ask them to teach you. I learned to do rabbits, goats, pigs and chickens this way.
ps. nothing beats sticking your hands into a nice warm deer, after your hands have been in the cold for a couple of hours.
ps. nothing beats sticking your hands into a nice warm deer, after your hands have been in the cold for a couple of hours.
Skippy said:
before you blame other new hunter,thinking about ur first time hunting experience. U really did very well in field dressing without others' help? I just came here for help, if u can give me some suggestion,that will be appreciated. otherwise,please save your words.thanks.
Shocked!
I'm actually shocked and a little concerned about by p226's attitude towards skinning animals. Skinning is part of hunting, and it is messy and ugly for people who don't know what hunting is all about. If you just go out and kill an animal and don't get involved with the actual processing of your kill, then your just a thrill killer and it just feeds into the anti- hunters/anti-gun propoganda machine that we are just all soul-less thrill killers. Those neatly packaged pieces of meat that you get at the store has made 'Civilization' forget that someone had to have killed,gutted and skinned that cow for you. Hunting for me reminds me of how brutally ugly and beautiful it can be, And it's made me grateful for the chicken that gave up it's life for me. Skinning isn't hard physically to do. Find a mentor to show you. If your not willing to get up to your shoulders in guts and blood and hide, stay out of the woods and please don't call yourself a hunter.
I'm actually shocked and a little concerned about by p226's attitude towards skinning animals. Skinning is part of hunting, and it is messy and ugly for people who don't know what hunting is all about. If you just go out and kill an animal and don't get involved with the actual processing of your kill, then your just a thrill killer and it just feeds into the anti- hunters/anti-gun propoganda machine that we are just all soul-less thrill killers. Those neatly packaged pieces of meat that you get at the store has made 'Civilization' forget that someone had to have killed,gutted and skinned that cow for you. Hunting for me reminds me of how brutally ugly and beautiful it can be, And it's made me grateful for the chicken that gave up it's life for me. Skinning isn't hard physically to do. Find a mentor to show you. If your not willing to get up to your shoulders in guts and blood and hide, stay out of the woods and please don't call yourself a hunter.
