cleaning squirrel
10-10-2002, 07:08 PM
#2
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Baumholder, DEU/By Way of Arkansas
Posts: 2,849
RE: cleaning squirrel
I can't show ya but I can tell ya.
1. pinch up some skin on the back of the squirrel and make a lateral cut
2. cut it enough to where you can slide your fingers up under the skin
3. pull away from the middle with both hands
4. cut off the head, and legs at the joints, the tail can go too
5. after the fur is off you can gut it, just cut along the bottom of the chest cavity and let em fall out....you may have to pull some too though, and it can get stinky. You can also gut earlier on if you want to.
6. that's pretty much it, you should have nothing but the meat there.
Good luck with it, they can be tough little boogers. Hope I helped.
My mind belongs to my work...
My heart belongs to my family...
But my soul...belongs to the woods.
1. pinch up some skin on the back of the squirrel and make a lateral cut
2. cut it enough to where you can slide your fingers up under the skin
3. pull away from the middle with both hands
4. cut off the head, and legs at the joints, the tail can go too
5. after the fur is off you can gut it, just cut along the bottom of the chest cavity and let em fall out....you may have to pull some too though, and it can get stinky. You can also gut earlier on if you want to.
6. that's pretty much it, you should have nothing but the meat there.
Good luck with it, they can be tough little boogers. Hope I helped.
My mind belongs to my work...
My heart belongs to my family...
But my soul...belongs to the woods.
10-15-2002, 10:31 PM
#3
Spike
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Chapman Kansas USA
Posts: 32
RE: cleaning squirrel
cut squirrel with SHARP knife inbettween tail and butthole,(sorry dont know correct word to use here)
2. Lay squirrel backside down on the ground
3. Step on tail and grap hind legs with your hand or hands....
4. Pull up on hind legs......
5. as you get to the legs cut the feet off so the skin will come off...
2. Lay squirrel backside down on the ground
3. Step on tail and grap hind legs with your hand or hands....
4. Pull up on hind legs......
5. as you get to the legs cut the feet off so the skin will come off...
10-18-2002, 01:41 PM
#5
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: florence ky USA
Posts: 74
RE: cleaning squirrel
This is my method of cleaning a squirrel.
In the early months of squirrel season, I always gut the squirrel when I shoot it or just before I leave. This is just one less thing to worry about when you get home to clean the squirrel(s).
Step 1: Cut the head, feet, hands, and tail off.
Step 2: Make a slit across the back from lower shoulder to lower shoulder. Not length wise of the squirrel. Then take your fingers and pry the skin away, use your fingers in tight places like around the arms to peel the skin off. Make sure you wear a latex powder free glove. This makes sure hardly any hair will be on the meat. It also doesn't stick to your gloves like it would with your bare hands and blood on it. Plus it's more sanitary. You don't want to be transfering your blood with the squirrels do you or vise versa? That's what I thought. Don't worry about other people saying things about you cleaning them with gloves.
Step 3: Take your knife and cut length wise of the squirrel from lower neck bone to the tail bone. With your gloves still on, remove entrails.
Step 4: Around the tail bone, cut an upside down U <----- ( Picture this U upside down ) to remove the rest of the intestines and butt hole of the squirrel.Everything inside of the U, cut it out. You don't want to eat squirrel butt do ya? Me neither.
Step 5: Wash any excess debris off the squirrel with water.
Step 6: Let it marinate in your favorite marinade all night.
Step 6: Let simmer all day to tenderize the squirrel.
Step 6: Bake, Fry, Deep Fry, Grill or which ever way you cook it.
Step 7: FEED YOUR FACE!!!!!!
This usually takes me a couple minutes on a gray squirrel and a couple minutes longer on the fox squirrel mainly because they are bigger and tougher.
A hunter_in_x1....???? There is plenty to eat on a squirrel. Arms, legs, and the most important, the tenderloin. The more squirrel you have, off course, the better.
In the early months of squirrel season, I always gut the squirrel when I shoot it or just before I leave. This is just one less thing to worry about when you get home to clean the squirrel(s).
Step 1: Cut the head, feet, hands, and tail off.
Step 2: Make a slit across the back from lower shoulder to lower shoulder. Not length wise of the squirrel. Then take your fingers and pry the skin away, use your fingers in tight places like around the arms to peel the skin off. Make sure you wear a latex powder free glove. This makes sure hardly any hair will be on the meat. It also doesn't stick to your gloves like it would with your bare hands and blood on it. Plus it's more sanitary. You don't want to be transfering your blood with the squirrels do you or vise versa? That's what I thought. Don't worry about other people saying things about you cleaning them with gloves.
Step 3: Take your knife and cut length wise of the squirrel from lower neck bone to the tail bone. With your gloves still on, remove entrails.
Step 4: Around the tail bone, cut an upside down U <----- ( Picture this U upside down ) to remove the rest of the intestines and butt hole of the squirrel.Everything inside of the U, cut it out. You don't want to eat squirrel butt do ya? Me neither.
Step 5: Wash any excess debris off the squirrel with water.
Step 6: Let it marinate in your favorite marinade all night.
Step 6: Let simmer all day to tenderize the squirrel.
Step 6: Bake, Fry, Deep Fry, Grill or which ever way you cook it.
Step 7: FEED YOUR FACE!!!!!!
This usually takes me a couple minutes on a gray squirrel and a couple minutes longer on the fox squirrel mainly because they are bigger and tougher.
A hunter_in_x1....???? There is plenty to eat on a squirrel. Arms, legs, and the most important, the tenderloin. The more squirrel you have, off course, the better.
