Black Powder Tree Rats

[djbogle]

After sitting in a tree most of yesterday and seeing nothing but squirrels and turkeys, I decided that this morning I would have some fun. I took Lil' Bit, my .32 percussion rifle, and we had an enjoyable morning. I got 3 squirrels, missed 4 more, but I located some good deer sign. I can't wait until the muzzle-loader season gets here.

 

[SpurHunter]

Ooooh, that makes me long for the season to get here. </p>

I like to shoot those little suckers too, but only if someone wants to eat them. </p>

I do not eat fuzzy tail rats..

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[djbogle]

I like to eat them, it's cleaning them that I don't care for. It's a necessary evil.

 

[NRG]

no matter how good I clean em the lil suckers always still have a few lil hairs on em lol .. my wife refuses for me to bring them in the house .. after I made some few yrs back and the legs where jumpin around in pan lol . so if I want them I have to cook them on the coleman stove outside and eat them outside lol .. she a city girl my mother in law wont eat any thing that is not from a local grocery store no matter what I tell her lol, she thinks she will get rabies emoHungry emoDoh emoLaugh emoLaugh emoLaugh emoLaugh emoLaugh emoLaugh

 

[slo-ride]

djbogle - 10/7/2007 4:24 PM

I like to eat them, it's cleaning them that I don't care for. It's a necessary evil.

I don't know what squirrel cleaning method you use, but this is the quickest/easiest I've found:
(video) http://members.localnet.com/~nickdd/

I ran across this on the rimfire central forum last year.

congrads on the black powder tree chickens! emoThumbsup

 

[Guest]

slo-ride - 10/9/2007 4:24 PM

djbogle - 10/7/2007 4:24 PM I like to eat them, it's cleaning them that I don't care for. It's a necessary evil.

I don't know what squirrel cleaning method you use, but this is the quickest/easiest I've found: (video) http://members.localnet.com/~nickdd/ I ran across this on the rimfire central forum last year. congrads on the black powder tree chickens! emoThumbsup

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When I watched the video it just showed the man skinning about 2/3 of the squirrel, what about the other part?</p>

 

[Guest]

You need to watch it again Doc and this time put your glasses on. He skins the whole squirrel including the head. Pretty slick method.

 

[TennesseeTalker]

That's really slick!    He does the whole thing ... in seconds.</p>



Too bad I don't have a gun to squirrel hunt.  I'd get one just to try that.</p>



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[ratherBfishin]

Doc1 - 10/9/2007 2:43 PM

slo-ride - 10/9/2007 4:24 PM

djbogle - 10/7/2007 4:24 PM I like to eat them, it's cleaning them that I don't care for. It's a necessary evil.

I don't know what squirrel cleaning method you use, but this is the quickest/easiest I've found: (video) http://members.localnet.com/~nickdd/ I ran across this on the rimfire central forum last year. congrads on the black powder tree chickens! emoThumbsup

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When I watched the video it just showed the man skinning about 2/3 of the squirrel, what about the other part?</p>

I must need glasses to It didn't skin it's legs where all the meat is. I had a friend that would use kind of the same method for skinning deer. He would not even gut the deer.

 

[TennesseeTalker]

Yep you both appear to need glasses .. if you look the guy strips the legs after one jerk of the squirrel which begins the process of skin removal.  He tosses it at his feet.  It's easy to miss though .. I had to watch it a couple times to catch it but the legs are clean as a whistle.

TT

 

[ratherBfishin]

I have watched about 8 times . I see the front legs being skinned . But I am talking about the back legs. The ones he is holding in his hands....

 

[SpurHunter]

TennesseeTalker - 10/10/2007 4:58 AM

That's really slick!    He does the whole thing ... in seconds.</p>



Too bad I don't have a gun to squirrel hunt.  I'd get one just to try that.</p>



TT</p>

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I can loan you one!

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[cooperjd]

me and dad use that method and have since i was little. after you skin it the way the video shows you, you have to skin the back legs the old fashioned way, just lay them on a clean piece of newspaper, and you won't get hair on the clean pieces of meat. i then get another clean sheet and gut the squirrel on it. no hair, clean squirrel, works great.

 

[slo-ride]

ratherBfishin - 10/10/2007 5:47 AM

I have watched about 8 times . I see the front legs being skinned . But I am talking about the back legs. The ones he is holding in his hands....

you have to watch close, but he skins the entire critter....the skin from the hindquarters is what he's throwing in the grass just before he finishes pulling the front feet and head through.

 

[TennesseeTalker]

It sort of looks like the massages the back legs to loosen the skin and zip .. off it goes and onto the ground.

Watch the end ... the squirrel is skinned back to front ... just concentrate on the back legs .. I promise you'll see it.

TT

 

[TennesseeTalker]

does one need a license to squirrel hunt?

TT

 

[SpurHunter]

Yes blondie.....

 

[TennesseeTalker]

well I'm sure I have one since I have the 33.00 license they make you buy for fishing.

one year I bought the 8.00 thing .. and found out you could only use live natural bait ... no minnows!!!! I didn't know that. I was using minnows everytime I went fishing with that 8 dollar license .. and also lures.

Also found out you cannot put your left over minnows in the lake. If they are left over and you aren't going to use them you have to throw them up on the bank or in the trash. Since they aren't native .. they CANNOT be released in the lake.

Do you know how many minnows I spared from death wishing them well as I let them swim off into the wild murky yonder???? Is that why we have such good bait fish??? Because of all the minnows that are let go in the lake?

Just things to ponder.

TT

 

[SpurHunter]

 

  

 

 

[Guest]

TT, I had to finally watch the video about 6 times and he does skin the back legs.</p>

I don't deer hunt anymore but we used to skin a deer real quick, after gutting, tie it in a tree by its head, cut the hide all around the neck, cut the feet off, then pull down a bit of the hide at the back of the neck and place a golf ball or small rock under the skin, tie a rope with a slip knot around this hide ball, tie the end of the rope to a truck or 4 wheeler and take off, it will pop the hide off in seconds.</p>