Rabbit cleaning for newbs.(No fuss/no muss)pics and steps
- Thread starter sjemac
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ahh your throwing away that beutiful hide? what a waist you waisted most of the bunny and that hide looked in great condition it's waistfull i am sure you could of found a naticve craftsman or leather worker who would of been happy to take it in ontario there is a hide donation program i'm sure there is something like that out there
AlderTK said:
I took 90% of the meat out. The rest that's left is gut sack and about a tablespoon of trim. The hide??? LOL you've obviously never tried to tan a snowshoe hare hide before. It has the strength of wet tissue paper and is unmarketable. But go ahead and send me your address and I'll ship all my future leavings to you to take of "properly".
Hmmm i thought the furs where good on snow shoes not that i'd plan on using it as leather but for fur hmmmm i wonder now any ways i hope my PAL comes soon cause there is a nice sized rabbit up by my cottage i've seen around but all i have is an air gun and i don't think it would drop it cleanly cause it's alittle low powered need to get it tunned up
blasted_saber
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- Location
- A blue part of Ontario
AlderTK said:
Do you plan on tanning your deer hides? Or how about moose hides? Its impractical to think that the furs should all be tanned. And the amount of meat he wasted is miniscule.
However, im sure theirs some a** conservation officer out their who'd chrage him for wasting. Ive heard of guys being charged for just breasting grouse (which 99% of guys in where im from do)
- Location
- Hillbilly shack in the boonies
Great pics, very clean job , thanks
delta1
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I have been hunting rabbits a lot of years 50 or so. Have yet to take a rabbit home that has not had its insides not removed, no knife and no finger in the butt no mess up your back either. Take a hold of the rabbit back up, head towards yourself. Start squeezing the rabbit from the chest towards the tail do not let the insides move back towards the head , squeeze untill stomach is a hard ball. Bend at the knees pick the rabbit up over your head still squeezing the rabbit firmly. bring your arms down hard against you legs just above the knees, your forearms should hit just above your knee's. If you have kept your knee's bent and hit firmly your rabbit is cleaned no mess.
When you get home grasp the rabbit in the centre of the back pinch hide with both hands and pull in opposite directions untill hide is at back feet and at the head cut bones off here and you should have a cleaned rabbit still no mess.
If you should whack the family jewels you did not have the knees bent, you will only make that mistake once. Delta1
I have been hunting rabbits a lot of years 50 or so. Have yet to take a rabbit home that has not had its insides not removed, no knife and no finger in the butt no mess up your back either. Take a hold of the rabbit back up, head towards yourself. Start squeezing the rabbit from the chest towards the tail do not let the insides move back towards the head , squeeze untill stomach is a hard ball. Bend at the knees pick the rabbit up over your head still squeezing the rabbit firmly. bring your arms down hard against you legs just above the knees, your forearms should hit just above your knee's. If you have kept your knee's bent and hit firmly your rabbit is cleaned no mess.
When you get home grasp the rabbit in the centre of the back pinch hide with both hands and pull in opposite directions untill hide is at back feet and at the head cut bones off here and you should have a cleaned rabbit still no mess.
If you should whack the family jewels you did not have the knees bent, you will only make that mistake once. Delta1
- Location
- London Ontario
delta1 said:
Can we get a video of that please?
No, no, no.
You take the rabbit in your LEFT hand, holding it firmly by the ears. Place a large brown paper bag over your head and walk in a circle, clockwise, clucking like a chicken. Count your paces, when you hit 666 paces, STOP! Transfer the rabbit to your RIGHT hand, and hold it by the rear legs with the middle finger of your right hand inside the anus. Now walk backwards, counter-clockwise, exactly 666 paces, whilst singing Inna Godda Davida at the top of your lungs. STOP!
Your rabbit is now cleaned, skinned, and cooked and should be served with a Baco Noir, slightly chilled.
Doug
You take the rabbit in your LEFT hand, holding it firmly by the ears. Place a large brown paper bag over your head and walk in a circle, clockwise, clucking like a chicken. Count your paces, when you hit 666 paces, STOP! Transfer the rabbit to your RIGHT hand, and hold it by the rear legs with the middle finger of your right hand inside the anus. Now walk backwards, counter-clockwise, exactly 666 paces, whilst singing Inna Godda Davida at the top of your lungs. STOP!
Your rabbit is now cleaned, skinned, and cooked and should be served with a Baco Noir, slightly chilled.
Doug
i have tried your way but find the easiest way for me to do rabbits is pinch some fur on the back of the rabbit, then put a slice where you are pinching running horizontal to the rabbit. grasp onto one side of the cut fur, the other hand grasps the other end of the cut, then give a steady pull, usually takes the fur off just like a sweatshirt and pants. this would be more helpful with photos so ill see what i can do.
ontario said:
This is normally the way I do it too, but there were some posters on here that didn't seem to want blood, fur and guts flying around so I posted up the clean version -- the version I was forced to use when newly married and cleaning rabbits on the kitchen counter
. Hell now if CSI ever luminoled my garage, I'd probably end up on the stand beside Pickton.
