Squirrel Skinning/Cleaning Picture Links?

[PaladinX13]

Any pictures or illustrations on an online sight?

[rr41mag]

I take a pair of sidecutters, cut off the feet and tail. Cut the head off with a knife make a cut about an inch long across the back then start pulling in opposite directions on the cut until you pull his skin completely off.



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[BadMedicine]

We just got back from hunting. We shot 5 squirrels, and two snowshoes. The way 41mag describes is the easiest, for just the meat, but I've been keeping the skins, so it's a bit harder.

[rr41mag]

OOPS, naw, the way I do it I stand next to a trash can and everything but meat goes in.

[PaladinX13]

http://www.silverstreaksports.com/squirrel_cleaning.htm

Pics here for those interested...

[Poodleshooter]

I use a hatchet on the wood block to take their heads and paws off. Very convenient.

[deanf]

Ok, I must ask, because I may shoot one some day: how does it taste?

Isn't a squirrel just a fancied-up rat?

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[patrickt66]

It tastes like chicken! Really. Sort of like rabbit, which tastes like...well, chicken.

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[Al Thompson]

Dean, a common expression around here is "tree rat". They are rodents, but their diets is much cleaner.

FWIW, I find the meat dark and well suited to a crock pot and a can of french onion soup. Or you can put in some wine, onions and soy souce. Or Cream of Mushroom soup... Or.... Heck I'm hungry !! :-)

Giz

[deanf]

Hmmmm . . .when people start saying " . . .well suited to a crock pot . . ." I start to get suspicious.

[Al Thompson]

Dean - I'm lazy and like my meat tender. Pop stuff in the crock pot, fire it up, go to work, dinner's ready when you get home. Being a single guy, I like simple..

If it isn't the crock pot, it's the George Foreman grill...

Giz

[Ivanhoe]

If you aren't making the neighbors nervously checking the distance to the nearest fire hydrant, you aren't cooking! ;)

[BadMedicine]

I like my squirrels char-burnt, with garlic :) That's the way I had them the first few times, and it just kinda strikes me as how a squirrel should taste now. We used to shoot them with wrist-rockets or BB guns while camping, and garlic salt and pepper was usually the only spices we had, to cook fish with.

The meat usually has a piney taste to it, or at least red-squirrels do. They are somewhat "wild" but I like them none the less :D
Red squirrels really aren't worth shooting for the meat. All de-boned, they have maybe 3 good bites of meat, I could stuff it all in one mouth full. I usually just shoot them cuz...well, that's what I do, and then eating them cuz, well, I killed it.

[This message has been edited by BadMedicine (edited November 01, 2000).]