Eating rabbit

Tom-D said:
Ya gotta remember they are a rodent, second cousin to a rat.
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Stick to fixing planes.

Rabbits are in the order Lagomorpha, not Rodentia. About the only similarity is that the incisors of both grow through out their life.
 
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True...I don't ask how my neighbor gets rid of them. I'm happy he does.
 
Gary F said:
Unless you run some lab tests it is not possible to determine if the animal was infected. Another option would be to irradiate the carcass with gamma radiation but cobalt-60 is not easy to get or handle.
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In Europe, where I used to put cleaning rod sections in my M16 and fire blank rounds to impale the bunnies on a tree stump it was never an issue. When I lived out in the desert the rule was if it ran, fast, shoot it, otherwise leave it.
 
Ha! I'd forgotten about that. Thanks for the wonderful laugh.
Kill the rabbit! Kill the rabbit <g>

Best,

Dave
 
Another option would be to irradiate the carcass with gamma radiation but cobalt-60 is not easy to get or handle.
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Well I had to google it.... ostensibly there is a lot of radioactive material out there to be purchased for home use! Check out ebay and
http://unitednuclear.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=2_5
"No NRC license required!
All our radioactive isotopes are legal to purchase & own by the general public."
 
Let'sgoflying! said:
Well I had to google it.... ostensibly there is a lot of radioactive material out there to be purchased for home use! Check out ebay and
http://unitednuclear.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=2_5
"No NRC license required!
All our radioactive isotopes are legal to purchase & own by the general public."
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Get out your checkbook since you would need to get an awfully lot of those puny discs to do the job. They are probably used for instrument calibration. Doses required to sterilize food are 1 to 10 kGy or even higher.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_irradiation
 
This seems to be a heck of a lot of trouble, for about what, four ounces of meat.

:D
 
One way to cook rabbits in the field is to gut them, rinse the cavity real well with clean water. Then, leaving the skin on, pack them with a couple of inches of wet clay all over the carcass.

Pack the coals of your camp fire around the clay ball containing the rabbit and add some more wood on top of the bunny. Let it cook for about 40 minutes. When the clay is hard and starting to crack dig the ball out of the coals and let it cool for a bit.

Once it is cool enough to handle crack off the clay, and the skin and fur usually peels off nicely. The rabbit ends up being steam cooked. Something to remember if you have nothing to cook it with.
 
nddons said:
I was watching a "Surviving the Cut" episode on the U.S. Army Sapper school, and the Sappers had to kill and cook either a rabbit or a chicken, and they boiled them in a coffee can. I didn't understand why they couldn't just put the meat on a stick and putmit over the same fire.
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Dave Siciliano said:
Stan: we did that in Army Ranger School. I also did it in SF training. In RVN, we ate a lot of stuff. The Viets, didn't have much meat in their normal diet, so anything with meat was fair game and cooked in the field.

Back on point, one boils meat that is really tough to soften it up. The Viets did that with python for instance. Things like field rats were much like rabbit and cooked over a fire or in a makeshift oven created from hot rocks in the fire. I wouldn't boil rabbit. But has has been said, marinate could be helpful.

It's difficult to cook game over an open fire as the part closest get burned and the parts away don't cook well. One has to constantly turn or cover it. On one of my first SF field trips we killed chickens and cooked them. Just putting a stick in them and putting them over a fire didn't work well <g>. Also, we couldn't always have an open fire, it could be detected from too far away; so, a more controlled fire with a container over it to boil thing might be more a tactical issue.

Best,

Dave
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Live chickens and potatoes. That's what we were given for breakfast one morning at ROTC summer camp. Those who had only seen chicken wrapped in plastic in the store had a problem. Those of us who grew up hunting birds had a great meal. Took some of my Boy Scout training to show the others in my squad what to do with the potatoes. Wrap them in mud, drop in the coals. When the mud was dry, baked potato. Great breakfast.
 
I hunt a lot, as much as I can. Don't usually get anything, but as far as I'm concerned, it's good exercise in the Winter, and a bad day hunting (as long a no one gets shot) is better than a day at work!

I hunted a lot or rabbits before my brother in law moved to Texas and took his dogs. It’s a LOT harder to hunt rabbits without dogs. Anyway, I tried a lot of recipes for rabbit, and this is the one I like the best:

7 servings
1 or 2 small rabbits, cut into about 7 pieces [each] (they kind of cut up like a chicken)
1 cup seasoned flour, for dredging (you can use “regular” flour if you want)
3 tbs bacon drippings
1 lg onion, sliced
1 c sour cream
1/4 ts ea thyme, pepper and salt

Skin, clean and cut into pieces the rabbit. Dredge with seasoned flour.
Melt the bacon drippings in a skillet or oven proof casserole and sauté the
rabbit until brown. Cover with the onion slices, sprinkle on the
seasonings, and cover with sour cream. Cover and simmer very gently or slow
bake in a 300 deg oven for an hour.

What’s nice about this recipe is, besides tasting good, is it cooks the rabbit evenly, adds a little fat, cooks the rabbit “wet” (because they are very lean, they tend to be dry if you don’t cook them with some kind of sauce) and the temp gets high enough to kill off any bacteria that might be lurking.

Bon Appetit!
 
I gave a class at Infantry Hall for what was called Instructor's Training Course (three week course to become an instructor). We had to do a five minute demo; then, do it again a few days later after critique. A partner and I killed a rabbit and skinned it in class with our bare hands; showing others how the skin came off in almost one full piece if done correctly. The first instructor grading our presentation had to leave when we killed the rabbit <g>.
Second instructor was a hunter and gave us an excellent grade when he was assured we were going to eat it (not waste it).

Best,

Dave
 
Henning said:
What happened to the rabbit?
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I'm amazed! Thought I would get maybe one or two replies on this thread but now I realize most of you are killing machines as well as pilots. Thanks for all the advice!

The rabbit is in the freezer but I think I'll throw it out. Our vet said tularemia is a concern when skinning and gutting and many I"ve talked to said don't eat rabbits in the summer as they are full of worms.

But the main reason I"ll probably throw it out is because everyone says it tastes like chicken.....I hate chicken. Now if it tastes like prime rib I'd take a chance.
 
If it's in the freezer, I'm assuming you've already skinned and gutted it, so tularemia shouldn't be a concern if you cook it properly.

I'd say eat it. Your son wants to do it, and I think you'd be teaching him a good lesson. If you're gonna hunt it, you should eat it.
 
Ketchup, mustard, Trappeys Red Devil, whatever floats your boat.
 
I don't know where you live, but rabbits aren't in season here yet. So you need to dispose of the rabbit before the Conservation Agent reads this and pays you a visit. Also in Missouri it is a rule of thumb that you don't eat a wild rabbit before the first killing frost.
 
Dean said:
I don't know where you live, but rabbits aren't in season here yet. So you need to dispose of the rabbit before the Conservation Agent reads this and pays you a visit. Also in Missouri it is a rule of thumb that you don't eat a wild rabbit before the first killing frost.
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Dean,

It seems everyone I talk to says the same thing about the killing frost so I think we will dispose of the evidence.

It's too bad that little bunny happened to jump in front of the tin can he was aiming at.

Todd
 
Swampfox201 said:
Dean,

It seems everyone I talk to says the same thing about the killing frost so I think we will dispose of the evidence.

It's too bad that little bunny happened to jump in front of the tin can he was aiming at.

Todd
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They tend to do that from time to time. :D
 
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