Skin'n bunnies?

[swampbuck]

Dang there must be some big bunnies in your neck of the woods if ya get rib meat.While I don't like to waste things and have gone thru the trouble of cooking the entire bunny there just isn,t even a mouth full on the front legs an ribs from the bunnies I get around here.

My beagle doesn't care about dead rabbits only live rabbits and what he gets is the thrill of the chase which is what he wants anyway.I,m glad he doesn't mess with the dead ones much and wants to get to the next chase, it leaves out not only the worms he may get from eating them but possibly the flea's that will jump from the cooling bunny to the warm hound.I try to leave what I,m not using for other critters that will like crows maybe a fox or what ever nothin really gets wasted in the big picture

[JC]

I pull off the front legs cause 75% of the time they are crushed and bloodshot from a hex head smashing through them. The rest of the time, they are so small on our southern cottontails, they aren't much worth eatin.

Might be semantics...but I sometimes have a problem understanding others' definition of "wasting" game. 1)I've never seen anything in the wild wasted. 2)I certainly wouldn't leave large portions of meat in the field...but the front legs on shot up or small rabbits and squirrels, frogs etc...yep, without a doubt.

One of my grandfathers could care less for the rest of the squirrel, but he'd fight you over the head so he could eat the brains. One grandfather said only head shots, the other said never a head shot....to each his own.

[B4NZ41]

Never Tried eating the brain, but I do use it to brain tan. Once I get my first trad squirrel, I'm planning on making a bracer out of it.

[Ron LaClair]

Our northern Cottontails are so big we dress em with a Bowie knife. Hex blunts bounce right off em, have to use broadheads to kill em.      

   

[JC]

Ron, I can't tell by scale how big that wabbit is...but considerin yer penchant fer big steel, that would be a good sized cat down here.

[blueslfb]

If the video link I posted offended anyone I apologize.  It was not my intention to condone "wasting game meat".  Just thought it was a slick way to clean a rabbit.

[b.glass]

I don't think anyone was "offended", just good hearted differences of opinion and polite debate.
I bet the northern bunnies are a good bit bigger than their southern cousins and more worth keep'n the whole thing.

[Flinttim]

Here's a good how to on taning small hides.

 http://www.essortment.com/smallhideshow_rioi.htm

I've done several over the years including rabbit, squirrel, deer ,coyote, and coon. Easy and works well.

[JC]

I relinquish the floor to Miss Glass....I think she is better at splainin than me  

[Ron LaClair]

Ron, I can't tell by scale how big that wabbit is...but considerin yer penchant fer big steel, that would be a good sized cat down here.
 

You're talkin bobcat right? My "rabbitknife" is a bigg'en    :eek:  an that rabbit fed 6 people    :rolleyes:  

   

[JC]

That's whut I figgerd  

[Yolla Bolly]

Dang---If I go north to hunt wabbit, I will have to get heavier arrows and a bigger bow!

[Tom Leemans]

...and take a war club with ya! They sometimes turn and charge ya up here!

[Dan Chamberlain]

Ron

I believe the dog got a smell of the fronts...but I think he put the fronts in the game bag as well.  

Don't know about the tape worms as I don't have a hunting dog...but we used to give the dogs the quail's heads and they loved em.

Dan