Over x-mas break, I visited my family’s farm in northwest Iowa. There, my cousin bagged a nice a nice cottontail rabbit. Somewhat to my surprise, they generally would take the carcass and feed it to their cat. I was shocked. I wanted to eat the rabbit. He laughed, but obliged. I’d never cleaned a rabbit before, so, like any modern primitive hunter I went on YouTube and learned this guy’s trick:
WOW!
It worked. I went from dead bunny to skinned and cleaned carcass quite quickly.
As you can see I had to get quite a bit of #8 shot out of the meat.
Surprisingly, my Aunt, a farmer’s wife, totally flipped out at the thought of me cooking a dead ‘bunny rabbit’ in her kitchen. Not out of fear of tularemia, but simply because eating a rabbit is “gross.” Oh well, it takes all kinds I guess. Thankfully, she came around, and I prepared a delicious Lapin a La Cocotte:
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It was delicious. The rabbit wasn’t gamey, but it was a bit overcooked. Oh well, for my first time cooking small game I’d give myself a B+
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Bowman
September 10, 2013
Jill it with a .177 cal pellet gun and have the scope zeroed at 15 yards and aim at the head behind or in the eye
Bowman
September 10, 2013
Not jill. Kill