Quick cleaning of rabbits

[olafhardt]

I once read this but never tried it with rabbits I shot or raised. I don't handle many rabbits anymore but if it works I would like to know.
1 Take a dead rabbit. Grab its head in one hand and its chest in the other.
Squeeze its chest real hard. While still squeezing, swing the rabbit hard like a base ball bat. The guts are supposed to go flying out the anus. I have watched a guy pick up a dead rabbit and tear the skin off with no cutting. If I remember correctly he then just twisted the head off with his hand. Try this the next time you take a noob hunting.

[williamwaco]

I once read this but never tried it with rabbits I shot or raised. I don't handle many rabbits anymore but if it works I would like to know.
1 Take a dead rabbit. Grab its head in one hand and its chest in the other.
Squeeze its chest real hard. While still squeezing, swing the rabbit hard like a base ball bat. The guts are supposed to go flying out the anus. I have watched a guy pick up a dead rabbit and tear the skin off with no cutting. If I remember correctly he then just twisted the head off with his hand. Try this the next time you take a noob hunting.

Try it by yourself first.

If it backfires, you don't want any witnesses.

[Reg]

Not too sure about that ball bat method.
Rabbit skins are very thin and easy to rip off. I usually just impale one hind leg on a nail driven into the side of a shed or a tree impale it where the main muscle ligament joins the joint at the hock, then rip the skin down and over the body cutting off the front feet then the head. one cut up the middle will remove the innards then cut off both rear legs at the joint. A quick wash in a bucket of water and you are done. Actually takes longer to do it than describe it. Works better when the bunny is still warm and fresh. Carry it around in the back of a pickup or a hunting bag all day then it's another story.

[brtelec]

Yes it does work. Then grab the skin in the center of the back snip it, stick your fingers through the hole and pull the skin tearing it and pull the front half over the head and the back half over the tail and pull until you are over the legs. Take pruning shears and lop off the feet front and back and take a knife and lop off the head. Done

[Beagle333]

It can get quite messy and funny if done incorrectly. The innards tend to swing around you like wrapping up a Maypole if you don't sling hard enough to get em all clear and released.

[SavageMan2506]

There is a method in which you squeeze the rabbit starting at the chest and continue down until the guts are pushed out through the anus, then you peel it, cut off the head and feet, and your done

[Gelandangan]

LOL, here is my way of cleaning rabbits
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/show...=1#post2093436

[TCLouis]

I have always just done it the old fashioned way and split them open after skinning.

[slohunter]

LOL, here is my way of cleaning rabbits
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/show...=1#post2093436

Excellent job. Thanks!

[TCLouis]

There was one air gun hunter on youtube that used to eviscerate (they also used a word starting with a g that seems to be English use of english language) them by starting at the rib cage and just squeezing hand over hand until everything inside came outside through the anal opening
I have always wanted to try it, but never see any rabbits to shoot.

I was told it only works on head shot (rifle or airgun) rabbits.

Here is one example, not the one I was thinking of, but same result.
This may be why they can hang them for a while

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glIst3sbbKs

[RKJ]

I used the squeeze method years ago, it works. I don't believe I'd try the swinging method. But I don't rabbit hunt anymore either.

[mold maker]

I have always just done it the old fashioned way and split them open after skinning.

Yep !!
Off with the head and feet, then pull off it's coveralls.

[TCLouis]

RKJ
I was talking about the sling method with someone I know.

Apparently if the guts do not sling free as one slows down, they might have a tendency to wrap around the person doing the slinging.

I would almost pay to see that . . .

[lonewelder]

When i was little i remember dad and grandpa doing it.They stepped on the head and pulled it off first.Then squeeze and sling guts out.It works,seen it many times.