Posted: Mon Nov 06, 06 11:31 am Post subject: Hare to prepare
Just got given a hare. Haven't skinned and gutted one since I was in my teens, so I'm a bit rusty.
Clean kill, the creature ran out a few feet in front of someone pointing a shotgun at a pheasant, apparently he barely had to change his aim to hit it in the head. As neither of them like hare, I'm the lucky recipient.
Good clean looking furry guy, whats my best bet? Gut like a rabbit saving as much blood as I can, cut the skin around the middle, skin off the back end then the front end?
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Posted: Mon Nov 06, 06 12:17 pm Post subject:
cab wrote:
Jonnyboy wrote:
When you said 'she' I assume you meant Tahir?
When discussing 'well hung and gamey', is Tahir name that springs to mind?
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Posted: Mon Nov 06, 06 12:32 pm Post subject: Re: Hare to prepare
cab wrote:
Gut like a rabbit saving as much blood as I can, cut the skin around the middle, skin off the back end then the front end?
Spot on and I would leave until the middle of the week.
Have a look at the belly skin every day and if it`s getting too green get it skinned and then gutted(that way you get to keep more of the blood.....yum!)
Thanks guys... She's already getting a gamey smell to her, might have a look at doing the gare sooner rather than later (got to feed this to Ellie, remember).
That was nothing like as hard as it might have been:
She really did smell good and gamey, so I thought I'd do it this evening rather than wait. I think that the place she'd been hagning must have been a little warm.
Cleanish head wound, some pellets in the front legs too. So more or less all intact, but with a lot of blood lost. Jugular and carotid artery clean broke through, neck bone cleanly severed with three pellets still right on the bone. Hell of a shot, but a leaky one. Still, theres a decent amount of blood there, enough to thicken my gravy
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