hey buddy I was out quail hunting today, shot my first quail, and got my first rabbit a few minutes later. I came home, and since I'd never cleaned a rabbit I wanted to see what someone experienced suggested. I found this video, and had the rabbit cleaned in about 15 minutes. Great instruction, clear and easy to follow. It's currently soaking in cold water for a little while and we'll eat it tomorrow. Thanks for the instruction. Gotta love RU-vid.
Spot on. My dad always stressed to not go hunting until after the first good snowfall. That way most of the sick rabbits will die, and you have a cleaning station at your disposal. Even though we cleaned them on the spot, we always had coolers with ice in the truck
The rule is don't harvest cottontails until after the first hard frost. That was it kills off a lot of the parasites that rabbits are riddled with in the summer and fall.
@@jronche That's the rule that dad learned from grandpa. Still kinda surprised that here in Nebraska, rabbit season starts as early as September. Way too hot to be hunting IMO
If that rabbit had tularemia (rabbit fever), then there's a good chance that Rinella would have also contracted it merely by gutting with bare hands. ALWAYS gut using latex gloves to avoid such exposure! A friend of my hunting partner died from contracting tularemia - it is a very nasty disease if not diagnosed and treated immediately. I have personally opened up rabbits that had tularemia, and/or various other forms of worms and parasites inside. Always be safe, hunters!
It is pretty rare with 200-300 cases USA, with most coming from ticks. Can be fatal, but not likely. Nevertheless use latex gloves to clean wild animals and inspect that liver and overall health of your kill.
this channel wants to awaken the wild instinct of lazy overweight employees, who are then those who improvise and hurt themselves. in many countries, I do not know how it works for you, to have a hunting permit you have to do slaughtering courses where you explain the basics of hygiene and how to recognize the signals of the most frequent diseases, but this would decrease the self-esteem of several real wild men
Thank you about the liver knowledge ,I have hunted and eaten rabbit for the better part of 40 years.never new that!!!! I love the knowledge ...... Thanks
Holy crap, I didn't know rabbits were just flesh burritos... I mean you took that fur off like you just reopened a burrito, that's crazy. I've never seen an animal go from cute fluffy rabbit to meat sack so fast
My 5 year old is really getting into hunting with my husband, this instructional video was so clear that it made Bean want to start snaring rabbits ASAP!!
I just killed my first rabbit ever, killing it with a recurve bow at 40'. I used your video to help me skin and butcher it. Tomorrow night is rabbit for dinner!
DAMN I'M HAPPY TO READ THAT ! Really hate it when people show up with these huge massive knives, very stylish and all, but soon as it's gutting time either they ask for your "little girl" knife because, AS IT TURNS OUT, it's not that easy to use a bloody viking sword to make delicate-ish cuts; or they just waste so much meat. Ok ok, I admit my knife is not the most manly, but I have small hands ! And sure there are some who manage to use their Crocodile Dundee blades like scalpels, really impressive actually, but it does look a lot harder than having a lighter smaller knife..
As a city slicking bastard child …but, now a combat vet & father of 5 as well as being a husband, son & brother… I’m very aware of my responsibilities to my family if shtf… I appreciate you teaching this stuff very much… it’s very helpful to a guy with no resources or connections to easily go out & do/learn this stuff. The spotted liver portion is great to know.
I literally just shot a rabbit out the front door of our home and then looked this video up and followed it to a ‘T!’ Works great. Now we have rabbit in the cooler, waiting for another. Thank you Mr. Rinella, for the excellent instruction.
@@dominicplacencia7828 Since they didn't respond I'll say what I'd make: rabbit stew but dry out the leftover meat we didn't put in the stew and make a sort of rabbit jerky. It actually tastes amazing!
Went Rabbit hunting with .177 Caliber Air Rifle. Was able to get 4 due to almost no noise. If your shots are spot on, that’s all that’s needed. Very Easy kills. We ate Rabbit all week. Awesome video.
Thank you. I shot a rabbit for my daughter on the way to the bus today. I had never skinned/cleaned one, but figured it could not be much harder than a deer or squirrel. This was helpful all the same. Appreciate the time you took to film and post this. Thank you.
Didn't realize how easy this would be, literally meal ready from culling to cutting board in 10 minutes. Wish I knew how easy it was for rabbits before I got ducks and chickens 😂
Thanks to you and joe, this is gonna be my first year hunting. Ive been a life long gamer and and home body and that has effected my health. I'm fat as fuck bro. so I decided i needed a change regarding my life style. i figure spending more time outdoors will help me lose weight so i sold all of my video games. bought some gear and got my NY hunting license. Im going solo since i have no friends (married with kids= no friends apparently) so I plan on hunting small game at first. rabbits and squirrels. wish me luck.
Once you have skinned the rabbit and taken its fur off, and you are up to the bit of actually gutting it and you have cut its stomach open and you don't really want to get all the blood all over you, a good way to get rid of all the guts and stuff is to firmly grasp the legs of the rabbit and almost fling the rabbit away whilst still holding on to it and that will just send all the just and stuff flying, thats what my grandpa taught me and thats the way i have been doing it all my life, but that was a top vid good job
Maybe an odd comment guys but as a Brit, I always find American videos on hunting and field dressing present a much calmer approach. I guess here in Limey Land people are too squeamish about how their food gets to the plate. Anyway, thanks man, good job done there.
Oh we're squeamish here too. But when one of us gets into something, even something like killing animals and playing with their bits, we get _into_ it.
Thank you for this video! This really helped me out a lot. Now I can skin rabbits with ease and confidence. I had always wondered how you get passed the pelvic area on a rabbit. Well now I know how to do it. Thank you so much
Hey Steven, Love watching your shows! I wanted to ask you if you ever did the "hand over hand" method for gutting the rabbit out? The best part is you don't need a knife. I hunt with dogs when I can, we use the hand over hand and the dog who brought the rabbit to us gets the rabbit heart right there in the field. Hand over hand you start up at the shoulders and squeeze hard with your grip and work yourself down the body. The guts normally come out the hind leg.
The first time I went hunting for cottontails the me and the guy I went with skinned them the way you would a deer. How man that was painful. This video makes me feel like a schmuck. Thanks for showing the right way
Nice job, this is how I do mine. I don't know why so many people in these videos don't start with a cut behind the shoulder blades. So much easier to skin. I also don't bother with the upper legs. I cut 3 rib from the top, and rid the head and legs.
Dude, really enjoyed your video... It was simple and straight to the point. I'm going to be making a dish with rabbit soon so this really helped...... That was awesome how you did it all on the snow too.
Of all the instructional videos for rabbit skinning, available on RU-vid, this is probably the one everyone should follow. Unless of course, Cameron Hanes had a video that differs.
Thank you for posting something short and to the point This walked us through the process for the first time today No Problems Thank you thank you thank you
I've gone hunting yet. When he started to gut it I was slightly grossed. But even it started to look like some wholesome fresh and environmentally friendly cuts of meat my mouth literally watering. I think I can get through the not so sexy part of hunting - only time will tell
What time of day do you usually hunt rabbit? I have seen them at dusk in the local State Parks , but then I do not see them all day. The video makes it look easy to clean. Fried Rabbit is great
I skinned my first rabbit yesterday but I keep the heart ,liver and kidneys as it is for my raw fed Service dog. I got the pelt off in one so am pleased . I was just checking how I did. I did cut head off first though then peeled skin off. Now I know its easier to just put a notch in. Thank you : )
The "antelope" jackrabbits out here are protected species, but the other ones are non game and don't require a license. Should be interesting trying to find the non game ones.
Cortanis001 haha I'm not talking about no tourist animals or rabbits with the shope papilloma virus, well here in arizona you need a hunting license for rabbits
Most of the rabbits I clean you dont really need to first cut in the hide he made I just give it a good pull and it works. I love cleaning rabbits it's so easy
I'm curious, have you ever hunted in Southern Oregon? Really nice wildlife over there. Lots of Deer and Elk, and the rabbits are probably twice the size of that cottontail. My grandfather, when we could, would take me out hunting to the West Coast because we had family over there. I hear that there are some boar invading SO from California- that might be interesting to check out.
Moving to an area where there may be a lot of rabbits, so my gal looked this up, so she can be rodent control with access to extra meat for us to use for slow cooker meals. Booyah.
Hey Bro Great video!!! I have a question thou..... how long should I age the rabbit meat before i can cook it? and how do i age the meat? any help would be great!!! Thanks Anikin
You don't have to age rabbit/hare. The only meats you should age (though it is not necessary) are ungulates, i.e. deer, elk, moose etc. (the red meats of wild game). Duck and other migratory fowl can be aged as well. You can age meat in a freezer or fridge (though it won't keep as long in a fridge). You can also dry age, however I don't recommend this (my preference is fresh meat). To dry age, you simply hang large cuts of meat in a dry environment that is no more than 40 F. For most cuts of meat, no longer than 17 days. Hope I've helped.
I've seen a few videos from America where the rabbits are gutted and skinned at the same time here in england we shoots lots of rabbits sometimes 100s in a day either shooting or ferreting and we gut them in the field and skin them when at home sometimes the next day
