how to skin a squirrel?
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first you have to soak it with a hose then make a cut across the middle of its back. Insert your fingers into the cut and pull this will stretch the cut around to the stomach. Just keep pulling the skin out over the legs and head then cut off the head and legs. Your done!
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There are two methods that I've used. The first is to simply cut through the hide mid back, grasp the 2 sides of the incision, one side in each hand and pull in seperate directions. This one is easy if you have a buddy or you have fairly substantial forearms.
The second is the method I use when I can't find a friend to help out. Using a sharp knife make an incision under the tail at its base. You have to feel out the space between the last two tail vertebra and cut through carefully to the hide, NOT through it. The tail and the flap of hide you started becomes a pull tab of sorts. Next place the squirrel back down on a hard surface with its head facing away from you. Step on the tail right up to the base, grasp the hind legs and pull up slowly and carefully. If the tail braks off, use method one. With a little practice method 2 becomes very easy.
There are also assorted squirrel skinning rigs and jigs on the internet...
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Good ideas Beekeeper. I guess since I case skinned a lot of mink and muskrat, I use the same technique on squirrels. With this technique, you cut across the rear end of the squirrel from back foot all the way across to the base of the tail and on to the other back foot. Open the incision a little and cut around the feet and tail. (You can keep the tail on the hide if you want by putting a clothes pin around the tail bone base and pulling the clothes pin up toward the tip of the tail. This will cause the tail skin to pop away from the bone staying in one piece). Then loosen the skin all around the foot-to-foot incision and using the tail piece as a pull tab, pull the hide toward the head kind of like pulling a tee shirt off a child. Pull the front legs out of the hide cutting at the feet as you pass them and cut the head off at the neck.
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