"Jim Wilkins" wrote in message
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On Jun 18, 12:50 pm, "Ed Huntress" wrote:
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...The neat way to gut a rabbit is to slit him from anus
to upper chest (near the throat); grab the two front legs in one hand and
the rear legs in the other; turn him so the slit is facing away from you;
swing him back over your head; and "flip" or "snap" him forward, like a
soccer-ball throw-in. The guts go flying.

Do not do this in the house. d8-)
Ed Huntress

Sounds like you didn't grow up overly confined by 'civilization'
either.

Nope. In PA, I could walk out my back door before school with a shotgun or
rifle, and have my choice (in seasons) of rabbits, quail, ducks, or
squirrels, all within 200 yards. We had woods, a field, and a pond within
that range. I could walk home from school with a deer rifle and hunt all the
way to the back of my house -- about four miles. The rifle was kept in the
athletic director's locker during the day, and he'd return our cartridges
from his desk drawer when we left school. I was 14 at that time.

My buddy across the street had miles of woods beyond his back
yard, and we knew every inch of them, including where the cop hid his
stash.

When he trapped and I helped skin we'd throw the muskrat guts over the
wall. Somehow they were always gone next morning.

I'd throw them into a dump. I was feeding the weasels, which I also
trapped -- at age 11. In winter, they were half-ermine: brown and white
patches.

Life sure was different 50 years ago...

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Ed Huntress