Thread: different way of gutting rabbits

Originally Posted by RimfireNZ

Bit of gas in them... I tend to shoulder shoot with the HMR so I put a big hole in one side and a small hole in the other. I wonder if that'll be a problem. I don't think the heart/lung membrane will hold up. I might have to start shooting for the head.

It just gets a bit messy on the hands if you shoulder shoot them. I find if I pick the big ones up after I've finished shooting for the night/morning they've bloated a bit and it helps get the leverage required to pop them. Some have been shoulder shot. The little ones are easy. Haven't 100% worked out what makes some of them hard to gut this way yet but atm it looks like the big males are the hardest.

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Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Age

59. What's it to ya? Ha ha ha

Yea youd be tough to gut Rushy.

Think the easiest way would be going in through ya bum. Start with a closed fist then try clapping.

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Yea youd be tough to gut Rushy.

Well there is a lot of it to take out VC so you are probably right. You'd need a nine inch blade just to get through the wall.

Originally Posted by roig

Think the easiest way would be going in through ya bum. Start with a closed fist then try clapping.

Mate if you are talking about my bum, no bugger is ever going to get any where near that without losing something dear to them.

Damn intersting, thanks for sharing will definitely give it a try

Geez hope you're talking about gutting rabbits, not sticking things in orifices.

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

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Possibly age as well but the male ones are definitely a lot harder to pop. I reckon it is something to do with their male bits reinforcing the bit of gut wall that usually pops open.

Had another heart and lung come out but it is a very very small percentage of them. Kidneys sometimes get left behind as well. You need to run your hand over it again to push them out.

I haven't shot any bunnies recently, but I have shot plenty of hares.

I tried this a couple of times. Epic fail. Couldn't make it happen (but I was trying straight after shooting as I normally gut them straight away. Is that not neccisary?) so I reverted to just using the knife.

Hares are a lot bigger and tougher than rabbits so maybe it wont work, or you just need more force. Dunno

with enough force it will work.
i was telling this old guy about this method. he understood what i was saying, as his son is a police man and he went to an accident where a cyclist was holding onto a logging truck getting a free ride. the cyclist went under the truck. and the exact same "rabbit" thing happened to him.

Originally Posted by bully

with enough force it will work.
i was telling this old guy about this method. he understood what i was saying, as his son is a police man and he went to an accident where a cyclist was holding onto a logging truck getting a free ride. the cyclist went under the truck. and the exact same "rabbit" thing happened to him.

Whoaaaaaaaa.....TMI, TMI.......

Originally Posted by bully

with enough force it will work.
i was telling this old guy about this method. he understood what i was saying, as his son is a police man and he went to an accident where a cyclist was holding onto a logging truck getting a free ride. the cyclist went under the truck. and the exact same "rabbit" thing happened to him.

AAAAh that's sick!

I tried it with possum and the amount of force you need is ridiculous! I think they need to be really thin skinned for it to be easy.

Originally Posted by bully

with enough force it will work.
i was telling this old guy about this method. he understood what i was saying, as his son is a police man and he went to an accident where a cyclist was holding onto a logging truck getting a free ride. the cyclist went under the truck. and the exact same "rabbit" thing happened to him.

Seen a few pics of militia from the Rhodesian war with there guts spilled,not a pretty site.