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Other Hunting => Coyote, Small Game, Varmints => Topic started by: quadrafire on August 26, 2010, 12:34:14 PM

Title: Cleaning a rabbit
Post by: quadrafire on August 26, 2010, 12:34:14 PM: This sounds kinda odd but thought I would share. Maybe it is more common than I think.
My Dad taught me to gut a rabbit in the field without using a knife.
First, hold the rabbit head up with rear end dangling down. Grasp the chest just behind the forelegs with both hands and squeeze very firmly, move your hands down the rabbit continuing to squeeze as you go. continue this to about the mid abdomen or further if you can. Then the fun part!
Place your feet a little more than shoulder width apart, then give a very firm "sling" backwards between your legs. Don't let go of the rabbit. The entrails all come out the back end.
I have done this when hunting with other people and none had ever seen it.
Would be good with a video showing it. But not for the faint of heart.
Then when you get home all you have to do is skin them and rinse. Most if not all of the insides are gone.
Title: Re: Cleaning a rabbit
Post by: carpsniperg2 on August 26, 2010, 12:36:22 PM: kain will be on hear soon, with one of his youtube videos that will blow our minds :chuckle:

:kneel:
Title: Re: Cleaning a rabbit
Post by: DoubleJ on August 26, 2010, 12:45:47 PM: Gotta be a video for this
Title: Re: Cleaning a rabbit
Post by: DoubleJ on August 26, 2010, 12:47:55 PM: Here we go. This is close

gutting rabbits (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goGtZ3euMt4#)
Title: Re: Cleaning a rabbit
Post by: quadrafire on August 26, 2010, 12:51:39 PM: There you go. He doesn't do the sling thing to impress his friends :chuckle:
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Post by: huntingfool7 on August 26, 2010, 12:52:54 PM: That right there is a blown O ring
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Post by: carpsniperg2 on August 26, 2010, 01:00:59 PM: dude i just sat down with my left over pizza lunch :yike: that is cool right there.
Title: Re: Cleaning a rabbit
Post by: Woodchuck on August 26, 2010, 01:05:31 PM: if you do the sling part do the guts fly up and land in the middle of your back? i am sure thats what would happen to me the first time :bash:
Title: Re: Cleaning a rabbit
Post by: Bofire on August 26, 2010, 01:08:22 PM: :)Do the same thing with Grouse or other birds, just dont squeeze first a cut around the anus helps
Title: Re: Cleaning a rabbit
Post by: JackOfAllTrades on August 26, 2010, 01:12:05 PM: For grouse, I cut the head off, put it on its back, stand on the wings and pull on the legs. Works great.

I'll have to try this for cotton tails though!

How ethical are we though? First we get a dog to do the grunt work. Then we shoot. The dog chomps on it in retrieve. Then we squeeze the guts out in one blob.

The soul of that bunny put through the ringer! :chuckle:

-Steve
Title: Re: Cleaning a rabbit
Post by: runamuk on August 26, 2010, 01:14:59 PM: I am totally gonna whack a bunny just to try this......the grouse thing works awesome off with its head and yank the bird inside out :chuckle:

oh I will not be slinging anything will try like the guy in the video...and I am amazed it wasn't Kain who found or had a video all ready for us :chuckle:
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Post by: high country on August 26, 2010, 01:33:13 PM: I am about half pissed I did not try that sooner.
Title: Re: Cleaning a rabbit
Post by: dirty24d on August 26, 2010, 02:06:56 PM: wow. very cool. question how the heck do people figure these things out? :dunno: Maybe i dont wanna know. :chuckle:
Title: Re: Cleaning a rabbit
Post by: MikeWalking on August 26, 2010, 02:15:26 PM: Who else wathced the Video about Heimo Korth? He skinned a Rabbit for the reporter that made it look like he was pulling off a glove...musta edited something out??

http://www.vbs.tv/newsroom/heimo-s-arctic-refuge-full-length--2 (http://www.vbs.tv/newsroom/heimo-s-arctic-refuge-full-length--2)
Title: Re: Cleaning a rabbit
Post by: Kain on August 26, 2010, 02:57:53 PM: I think I must watch too much Youtube or something. :chuckle: :chuckle: I had not seen that method for gutting a rabbit before. Very...um...interesting. :yike:

This is the method I use on my rabbits. You can do it a lot faster if you dont plan on keeping the fur. Alive to cleaned in just over 3 minutes. Might see how the squeeze method works next time I butcher.
YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBYv3I9cCgo#)

Here is the vid on cleaning grouse though.
How to clean a grouse in 60 seconds - The Nelson Technique (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ds0noQp6WI#ws)
Title: Re: Cleaning a rabbit
Post by: quadrafire on August 26, 2010, 03:03:17 PM: Quote from: JIMKD8 on August 26, 2010, 01:05:31 PM
if you do the sling part do the guts fly up and land in the middle of your back? i am sure thats what would happen to me the first time :bash:
Yes it has happened, but it is best when you have your GOOD friends stand right behind you ;)
Title: Re: Cleaning a rabbit
Post by: Kain on October 25, 2010, 02:31:35 PM: Found it.

gutting a rabbit.MOV (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rxyx7Zds2qs#)
Title: Re: Cleaning a rabbit
Post by: WDFW-SUX on October 25, 2010, 02:35:45 PM: My cousin does that.
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Post by: Rgrady35 on October 25, 2010, 02:41:29 PM: Ewwww...but kewl. 8)
Title: Re: Cleaning a rabbit
Post by: Big10gauge on October 25, 2010, 03:39:22 PM: I was showing BullElk how to do that last year and ended up with guts up my back and around a ear. Used to clean them all the time that way. Not much anymore :chuckle: So it's kinda a standing joke now.
Title: Re: Cleaning a rabbit
Post by: ctwiggs1 on October 26, 2010, 09:13:22 AM: Quote from: runamuk on August 26, 2010, 01:14:59 PM
I am totally gonna whack a bunny

I don't know if I would post something like that on a public forum....

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