What is the best way to skin a rabbit?

Question

Step by step,how should I skin a rabbit? I shot it with a 750 feet per second air rifle loaded with a .177 predator polymag pellet. I nailed it from 50 feet away without a scope and a missing iron site at night with flashlight laid out on the ground,aimed at the rabbit... I think the pellet broke the bones inside it's chest because it died within 2 minutes and I could not find an entry wound... Thanks for you detailed answer... Olivia

Answer 1

G'day mate I'm guessing this is for food?.best way after you shot the rabbit is to pinch the back fur and cut (make sure you don't cut the meat)when you have made a hole reach in the hole with yr finger's.With one hand start to pull towards the head,the other hand pulls towards the back legs.You might find the the one going to the back legs will come completely off.The one going to the head will stop about the neck area.If there are 2 people it will work better 4 you because then you just take a side each.Now when the skin is at the head and the skin on the back legs are gone,one person holds the back legs while the other person starts to cut the front paws off.After you have don that cut off the head,then the guy spreads the back legs of the rabbit.The guy with the knife cuts each side of the tail like a v cut and cut it off.Then place the knife near where you cut the tail and slide it down the stomach  not to deep or you will cut the guts and it will stink,you keep cutting till you reach the ribs.Put your hands in and rip out the gut's.Check the liver make sure there are no white spots on the liver if there is the rabbit is no good.Then when the gut are ripped out.Where you cut the tail there are 2 glans on each side of the rabbit if you don't like the game taste cut it off.Then grab one of the back legs and cut one foot and the same for the other leg and there you have a complete cleaned rabbit.Also try killing it with one shot try head shot 4 clean meat and no gut shot smell's also.cheers mate

Answer 2

probely without knowing you broke the law by shotting the rabbit at night,and rabbit season is closed now where i live and it's not a good idea to eat them now. but I have someone to help hold the rabbit and pinch up the loose skin in the middle of the back i cut the skin careful not to cut into the meat insert 2 fingers on the head side and 2 on the tail side and pull away from each other until the skin is over the legs cut off the head and the person holding the rabbit holds it by both back legs spread apart and taking your knife remove any sexual eguipment then split the pelvis and then gut it save the liver its great fried.

Answer 3

You want step by step instructions, are you wanting to eat it or use the pelt or both? Big difference. If it's food only, no big deal how you get the skin off, don't puncture the meat with the knife. You can go down the belly, down the back, across the rear legs and start pulling, any way works. The hardest part is butchering it properly. Sounds like you may have bone splinters in it, be careful.

Answer 4

good shot - next time dont leave the thing to die slowly, grab it by the neck and give the body a whole turn - breaking the neck, or shoot it again in the head. u can look away if it makes u feel better about it. dont be sloppy. finish with a nice clean kill so the animal doesnt suffer.

to skin it, pick the skin up from the back - cut a line through it and pull with one hand going toward the back and one the front - all the skin off. cut around the feet and head. be careful of the smell.

Answer 5

down the middle,around the legs and pull over head. Most important: wear gloves.