Paunching Technique -

[Salop Matt]

This isnt about what knife, this how do you use your knife for paunching ?

 

The way Iv been show and get on well with is :

 

* Pee the rabbit.

* Hold up by the back legs belly facing me.

* Take the knife and pinch the blade between my thumb and first finger, so only an inch at most is pertruding my finger and thumb.

* Puncture towards the back of the rabbit belly and draw down to an inch short of the ribs.

* Turn bunny over and let guts fall out.

* Feel in for the big stomach lump (?) and pull out clean leaving: heart, lungs, liver and kidneys inside .

 

How do you do yours ?

[Billy.]

Slice the skin and hold the rabbit by the neck and back legs and flick the rabbit. All the guts come flying out and leave the kidneys in.

 

No mess and you don't have to get your hands dirty!

[hyflier]

A little differently:

 

I lay bunny on his back with the head to my left, having pee'd it. I take hold of some loose skin at the base of the ribs and pull up, I then slide the knife in, away from me piercing both sides of the loose skin and slice down towards the back legs, this leaves a strip of fur which can be cut off. This exposes the bare skin with the intestines just below. I do the same again, lifting the loose skin away from the guts and slide the knife in, again piercing both sides. This leaves a large hole where I can get my forefinger and thumb in and lifting the skin away each time, cut down to the pelvis.

 

Back at the ribs end, I carefully move the liver away from the diaphragm and make a small cut, I insert two fingers and feel for the heart and lungs I then hook my fingers around these and pull gently down until back at the two sides of the diaphragm, lift up bunny and pull down, the whole lot ends up on the floor, kidneys too, and I have a very clean rabbit for the pot. :(

Edited April 20, 2010 by hyflier

[Ozzy Fudd]

take them home to do them. cut the skin in the belly and peel the skin back, up to the neck, halfway down each leg and at the tail, easy to chop the legs, head and tail with a heavy knife then and get it all off. then i slit the stomach, pull everything out anc lungs, etc

[allthegearandnoidea]

take them home to do them. cut the skin in the belly and peel the skin back, up to the neck, halfway down each leg and at the tail, easy to chop the legs, head and tail with a heavy knife then and get it all off. then i slit the stomach, pull everything out anc lungs, etc

 

As above but I take the legs and head of first and keep the liver, kidneys and heart.

 

What is the easiest way of making sure all of excrement is out of a rabbit?

Edited April 20, 2010 by allthegearandnoidea

[PaulABF]

What is the easiest way of getting the excrement out of a rabbit?

 

Shouting 'Boo' loudly in it's ear.

[allthegearandnoidea]

Shouting 'Boo' loudly in it's ear.

 

I'll give that a try :(

[Heladoxa]

If you want to skin it as well, have a look at You Tube

 

Andy skins a rabbit by Captpogwash and

More than one way to skin a rabbit by clancybox

 

These two show you how badly it can be done. Then have a look at

 

Best way to skin of a rabbit by 9999999999999 0000000000000 for sheer elegance and economy of movement.

[Colster]

I used to do them with the rabbit laying on the floor and pinch the skin etc but a mate showed me a much quicker way.

 

Stand up, holding the rabbit's back in your palm with your thumb round it's right shoulder. This means the rabbit is then hanging downwards at the perfect angle. Push the knife gently through the skin above the rabbits sternum (where the ribs meet in the middle), this will stop the knife going in too far. Now make a downward slice all the way down to the wedding department.

 

Put down knife and put your index and second finger in either side of the stomach, quick pull down and out it all comes. I'll check the liver for spots and any evidence of tapeworm cysts and discard if necessary.

[togger]

What is the easiest way of making sure all of excrement is out of a rabbit?

 

Use your little finger and push through from the inside towards the outside. Once you've done it a couple of times and put your mind in a different thought zone it's simple!!

[MC]

I used to do them with the rabbit laying on the floor and pinch the skin etc but a mate showed me a much quicker way.

 

Stand up, holding the rabbit's back in your palm with your thumb round it's right shoulder. This means the rabbit is then hanging downwards at the perfect angle. Push the knife gently through the skin above the rabbits sternum (where the ribs meet in the middle), this will stop the knife going in too far. Now make a downward slice all the way down to the wedding department.

 

Put down knife and put your index and second finger in either side of the stomach, quick pull down and out it all comes. I'll check the liver for spots and any evidence of tapeworm cysts and discard if necessary.

 

 

That is exactly how I do it, I use a folding utility knife with a Stanley hook blade in it. It only just penetrates the skin and is razor sharp.

[Dekers]

Simple answer is the way you get on best with, but variations will often occur down to site specific details, tools available, shot placement, intended use, experience...

[docholiday]

The sooner you skin them after shooting them the easier it is, if you leave it till the next day it can be a bit of a pain. if you do it fresh and warm its simple

doc

[al4x]

just depends how you like being crawled over by fleas Doc, ours seem covered in them if you try skinning them warm they jump all over you. I tend to leave till the morning now in the shed and they all clear off

[George1990]

Anyway is easy if your knife if really sharp. Mine's always blunt which makes life difficult.

 

I stab in by the testes, up and into the sternum, then cut through the membrane under the skin after. Shake it about, tut my hand in a carrier bag and go up to the diaphragm and yank it all out, then take the heart and lungs out.

 

I use a hatchet to whack it's head and legs orf. And you can use this to push through the pelvis to make whipping out it's poo tube easier

[ollie]

I push the pee out of it first. Then hold the rabbit by the front legs, enter the point of the blade just below the point of the ribcage and slice down towards the bottom. Place 2 fingers in and pull out the stomach (everything else comes with it), this leaves the liver and kidneys still in. I always paunch them as soon as they are shot and skin them when needed.

[Paul@Ribchester]

I think I have mentioned it before on here but I have found "push gutting" the easiest, cleanest and quickest method. There is a vid on youtube, but basically you just hold the rabbit by its front legs, then start squeezing downwards under its ribs, almost like your wringing out a wet cloth. Keep going downwards then all of a sudden everything comes out of its backside!!

 

Takes about 5 seconds and as I said no mess.

 

Give it a try and let us know if it works for you.

 

Paul.

[Heladoxa]

I wear rubber gloves so that my hands don't stink afterwards

[Salop Matt]

Iv tryed the push gutting and for me it made a mess, wasnt easy and burts out of the shink not the anus ! So needless to say will stick to a knife !

[docholiday]

I am a doctor and have spent my working life up to my nuts in guts, from the Hyde Park bombings to the Harrods bomb but doesnt paunching rabbits just stink, I hate the smell and always use surgical gloves

doc

Edited April 23, 2010 by docholiday

[Evil Elvis]

:unsure: I freeze mine with the guts IN!!!

[steve_b_wales]

Slice the skin and hold the rabbit by the neck and back legs and flick the rabbit. All the guts come flying out and leave the kidneys in.

 

No mess and you don't have to get your hands dirty!

 

 

This is the easiest way to remove the guts etc.