How do you clean a squirrel?
10-17-2003, 06:40 PM
#12
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
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RE: How do you clean a squirrel?
its also a good idea to use a schapel or EXACTO instead of a knife. i didnt know if this went without saying or if i should throw it in. you really dont need a 6" folder to skin a 8 inch squirrel 
10-18-2003, 03:02 PM
#13
Nontypical Buck
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Location: NY
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RE: How do you clean a squirrel?
Seen this on another site, hope that it helps ya out!!
http://www.conservation.state.mo.us/...game/squirrel/
http://www.conservation.state.mo.us/...game/squirrel/
10-20-2003, 11:15 AM
#14
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Location: chiefland Florida USA
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RE: How do you clean a squirrel?
I have tried the cut tail method and had other people show me how they do it and have had people do it the cut tail way and I do it my way and I always get finished first.
I guess I cut to much;because the tail always pulls off.
I guess I cut to much;because the tail always pulls off.
10-21-2003, 08:17 PM
#15
Fork Horn
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RE: How do you clean a squirrel?
Yeah, I just shot a big fox squirrel last Saturday and tried the cut tail method, and had my dad show me the cut tail method, but guess I need a little more practice cause I pulled the tail off. I spent the next hour pulling hair off it.
10-26-2003, 09:52 PM
#16
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RE: How do you clean a squirrel?
check out : http://conservation.state.mo.us and then search in their box for " cleaning squirrels" . They have an excellent article on how to do so.
11-15-2003, 08:14 PM
#18
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Brantford, Ontaio, Canada
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RE: How do you clean a squirrel?
eh there boys let me tell u the canadian " fast" way of cleaning a squirrel.....
if u can....soak it with water first in a puddle, pond, wutever (best to clean while they warm) and then just pinch its hide right at its spine just behind its front legs and cut through the hide making a hole big enough for u to get 2 fingers in from each hand...
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then all ya gotta do is pull with one hand towards its head and the other towards its ass until the hide is to its legs then ya just gotta pull the hide of its legs, break the joints of each foot, cut off the feet, tail and head.....
then just split the pelvic bone (bone between its back legs) cut up to the breast bone and rip out all the guts....no need to dull yer knife cuttin through its ribs as u can pull its heart, lung and esophugus out anyways...
BAM!
yer done.....no need to finess with the cut tail way or any other way....
good luck and lemme know how it works for ya
ch312
if u can....soak it with water first in a puddle, pond, wutever (best to clean while they warm) and then just pinch its hide right at its spine just behind its front legs and cut through the hide making a hole big enough for u to get 2 fingers in from each hand...
0 <---head
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\/
| <----make cut through hide here
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/\
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then all ya gotta do is pull with one hand towards its head and the other towards its ass until the hide is to its legs then ya just gotta pull the hide of its legs, break the joints of each foot, cut off the feet, tail and head.....
then just split the pelvic bone (bone between its back legs) cut up to the breast bone and rip out all the guts....no need to dull yer knife cuttin through its ribs as u can pull its heart, lung and esophugus out anyways...
BAM!
yer done.....no need to finess with the cut tail way or any other way....
good luck and lemme know how it works for ya
ch312
11-16-2003, 12:47 AM
#19
Spike
Join Date: Feb 2003
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RE: How do you clean a squirrel?
www.tpwd.state.tx.us
They had a great article on this in their October issue of TP&W magazize. Very quick, clean, and easy. I dont know if you can get this article online, but you can try the website and see.
They had a great article on this in their October issue of TP&W magazize. Very quick, clean, and easy. I dont know if you can get this article online, but you can try the website and see.