Dressing Rabbits.

[Cedric 132]

Any tips on cutting through rabbit fur? I've been finding that when I try to run my knife along a rabbits belly to gut it my knife tip is clogging with fur and riding over the skin.

 

The knife is pretty sharp.

[socks 32,253]

Knife needs to be sharper simples .......

[Tiercel 6,986]

Knife needs to be sharper simples .......

If you can't shave with it, it's not sharp, better off using a Stanley knife.

 

TC

[Rabid 1,936]

Another thing some do wrong, is trying to cut from the outside, you need an incision, then run the knife down under the skin and cut in an outwards direction if that makes sense, that way you are cutting skin first then through the fur, very similiar as a deer gralloch but on a much smaller scale (check the videos available)but agreed the knife needs to be sharp, and I find a good point really helps to make the first incision, after that pretty much any knife will do the job.

Edited November 17, 2014 by Rabid

[jocky 198]

i always use a stanley knife with the hooked blade dont cut in to far and very easy to do.

[Nick3439 83]

Another thing some do wrong, is trying to cut from the outside, you need an incision, then run the knife down under the skin and cut in an outwards direction if that makes sense, that way you are cutting skin first then through the fur, very similiar as a deer gralloch but on a much smaller scale (check the videos available)but agreed the knife needs to be sharp, and I find a good point really helps to make the first incision, after that pretty much any knife will do the job.

This.

 

I make a 'nick' in the fur and get my fingers in. Then I only need a knife for removing it's head.

Then same nick again; tear open belly; and gut. Simples. Practically no knife used.

[socks 32,253]

 

Another thing some do wrong, is trying to cut from the outside, you need an incision, then run the knife down under the skin and cut in an outwards direction if that makes sense, that way you are cutting skin first then through the fur, very similiar as a deer gralloch but on a much smaller scale (check the videos available)but agreed the knife needs to be sharp, and I find a good point really helps to make the first incision, after that pretty much any knife will do the job.

This.

I make a 'nick' in the fur and get my fingers in. Then I only need a knife for removing it's head.

Then same nick again; tear open belly; and gut. Simples. Practically no knife used.

That's ok until you need to do 50 plus rabbits then you will need a good knife ... Oh and you don't need a knife to take the head off ..........

[TOMO 26,809]

Same as me then then socks,,,,twist and pull..

[socks 32,253]

Same as me then then socks,,,,twist and pull..

[bullx100% 681]

 

 

Another thing some do wrong, is trying to cut from the outside, you need an incision, then run the knife down under the skin and cut in an outwards direction if that makes sense, that way you are cutting skin first then through the fur, very similiar as a deer gralloch but on a much smaller scale (check the videos available)but agreed the knife needs to be sharp, and I find a good point really helps to make the first incision, after that pretty much any knife will do the job.

This.

I make a 'nick' in the fur and get my fingers in. Then I only need a knife for removing it's head.

Then same nick again; tear open belly; and gut. Simples. Practically no knife used.

That's ok until you need to do 50 plus rabbits then you will need a good knife ... Oh and you don't need a knife to take the head off ..........

I. Lucky get 50 in a full season..... Lol

[slip lead 862]

As already been said, a small gutting knife.

 

Have you seen the video on you tube, of the fella squeezing them out, great if your perm is a long way from home, and it's still warm/flys about.

Edited November 19, 2014 by slip lead

[Rabid 1,936]

 

 

Another thing some do wrong, is trying to cut from the outside, you need an incision, then run the knife down under the skin and cut in an outwards direction if that makes sense, that way you are cutting skin first then through the fur, very similiar as a deer gralloch but on a much smaller scale (check the videos available)but agreed the knife needs to be sharp, and I find a good point really helps to make the first incision, after that pretty much any knife will do the job.

This.

I make a 'nick' in the fur and get my fingers in. Then I only need a knife for removing it's head.

Then same nick again; tear open belly; and gut. Simples. Practically no knife used.

That's ok until you need to do 50 plus rabbits then you will need a good knife ... Oh and you don't need a knife to take the head off ..........

My best Sunday, 173 rabbits, all cleaned by me just how I describe, I will fess up though, my knives are always razor sharp when I go out, not always when I come back though.........,,,,agree with the head comment, I twist and pull

[socks 32,253]

173 rabbits caught in one day ... Takes some doing that ......

[Rabid 1,936]

173 rabbits caught in one day ... Takes some doing that ......

Yes mate, you can say that again, it is also the biggest set I have ever worked, one set, took four of us all day to net and work, it was a red letter day I shall not forget, gotta be honest, it nearly killed me, I slept well that night ! It was on some parkland I used to work, and the whole place was alive, we ferreted it every Sunday for around ten years, I think our worst day was about 14 and that was because we spent most of the day laid up on a bank with a bloody deep set, only had 8 foot knockers and we kept loosing signal. I also remember pulling 6 out of a single hole one day ! Some very fond memories, and I wish I still had the perm for it but it changed hands and that was it .........

Edited November 19, 2014 by Rabid

[micky 3,325]

My mam and sister were red hot at dressing rabbits back in the 50s , mam used a pair of rose cutters for the legs then Jan skinned them down to the neck ,mam then took the skin over the head and dressed the liver,my job was to hang the skins in the wood barn to be collected later by a man from Nottingham