Prepping. How To Skin A Rabbit. Traditional skills for living off the land.  

I must have done this a gajillion times since I was given my first .22 rifle 50 years ago at age 8. My mum, bless her, taught me how to braise rabbit at an early age. I still do this for my 97 year old dad when I visit them.

As always... Scott your butchery skills say it all... no fancy frills just how to get down to it... This channel is an encyclopidia to butchery... Becuase you dont dress it up... you keep it real... that is what sets you appart... Love your channel... love your passion for buthchery and you passion for the tools of the trade and nostalgia to the trade... I am not a butcher but have had my share of breaking down meat. I wish you all the best and may you bring us more wisdom... Thank You

I have always put a nick in the back between the shoulder blades, put a finger in each side (one to the front & one to the rear) & simply pulled. I was shown years ago, when i was a kid & it has always worked for me. I taught my daughter how to do it a few years ago when she was around 14 & she did it successfully first attempt. The rabbits were always freshly killed, so maybe that is why it was so much easier. Keep up the great work. All the best from Down Under.

Ive learned so much from you on butchering pigs and sheep. Let me give you a bit on rabbits. Growing up we had 100;s of domesticated rabbits and over the years I've butchered out 1000's of them. Put a set of pointed hooks about shoulder level to you in a strong branch or board. Hook the rabbit through the achilles tendons hanging head down. Remove the head, remove the tail, cut through the skin at the hind ankle and work your fingers under the skin from each ankle to the main body. With the leg skin pulled to the haunches. grab it with both hands and pull down, it will all come off in one move down to the front feet where you can cut the feet free and leave them attached to the skin. Doing this before evisceration lets you pull the skin off in a tube then you can split the belly and remove the aufels (I think that is what you called the guts). But it can be done after evisceration. With this setup and a trash can underneath I could do 80+ rabbits in an hr. when I was younger.

Tip for anyone who might be concerned with the possibility of contracting Tularemia (a disease carried by fleas, living on rabbits, that can make humans ill); When you shoot a rabbit, set it somewhere (log/ stump etc) and leave for an hour or so, then come back for it, the fleas will leave as the carcass goes cold... :) wearing gloves and skinning in the field is always a good idea as well...

Quick and to the point. I like it! Thanks

Super helpful video, thank you, Scott. I did this task many times as a lad but as a chap in my late fifties it has been a while. If I ever get my permission this is going to be handy! Thanks again.

Life skills Scotty Boy. I`ve taught my 2 teenage kids how to , just in case Asda closes at the weekends. Keep it up man 👊

A good rabbit bog... stew meat with carrots, onions, celery, salt and pepper until meat falls off the bone. Remove meat and debone. Reserve 4 cups of broth and use to cook rice of your choice with all veg in as well. Add back in rabbit meat as well as slices of kielbasa sausage. Serve hot and enjoy. I figure i can share a quick recipe with a man who has shown me many ovsr the years!

This takes me back to when I used to go lamping with a friend years ago, when it was still legal. I wish I knew of your technique back then I used to make a right mess of the skinning.

Always a great teacher! 👍👌

Good to see you again . I have often wondered about the Romans that used to eat roasted door mice , That would be a bloody fiddly job !

Awesome! I just got one of these bastards eating my apple trees. Had to watch the older one to see how to prepare it.

Nice one Scott hope you put some recipes up mate👍🏻

I rememeber as a kid, all the old folks would say you can't eat rabbits in the summer because they're not good and you could get food poisoning or something! HAHAHAHA. More like, they are covered in ticks here, but they would actually taste better in summer as they eat more greens instead of the tips of shrubs and trees. So simple to process!

Always, nice to peel them hot, when you have the opportunity.

I use the shears to cut off the feet first, put a nick in the skin on the back, get my fingers in and pull in both directions, use my fingers to slip the skin off all four legs, remove the front and back legs, take a knife to cut the side/belly skin away from the saddle, use the shears to cut through the backbone just behind the ribs and in front of the the hips and done. I don't save the meatless ribs and don't have to mess with the guts, much quicker and cleaner.

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Hi Scott, love your channel!! I'm not sure if this is relevant to the video, if you wanted to keep the rabbit hide, I've seen some videos where people wash and salt the hide to dry in the sun, then tan with an egg yoke to soften the leather. So you know how to wash the hide so it doesn't have the animal/game smell?

I am interested in seeing how to further process the rabbit skin, either for making fur mittens or for removing the fur from the skin and using the skin to make things like a parchment or even a very lightweight leather.

When you're hunting rabbits, what do you look for through your scope to see if a rabbit is good for eating?

Been after a couple of rabbits for ages but can’t get them. Why not I ask myself and all the butchers I go to

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is the fur anygood for anything ?

Delicious 🐇

Seven bunnies in a box :)

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I can't imagine what would happen if I showed this video to a female friend.

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Clearly a butcher and not a furrier or you wouldn't cut the hide in half, you'd tan it. 😉

I’ve seen different butchers do slightly different things when skinning the animal. Do you have to work about contamination from the fur/skin touching the meat?

Oh my allah I loved seeing that box of dead rabbits at the start, for every one of my plants Ive lost to a rabbit im killing one of them and theyve wiped out enough of my vegetables over the years. Ive yet to kill one because most of the time Im hunting im wired out my tree and far too impatient, however a couple days ago I finally hit one. With a bb from a slingshot. Nowhere near hard enough. It ran away a few feet and resumed eating. The sound of me getting another ball bearing out my pocket made it run away. Mark my chuffin words I'll be back with a vengeance, again thank you for making this and preparing me for when I finally get payback on this fluffy buggers