Just wondering on this one. Do you cut a rabbit with a sac. fence, or cut it with the rip fence away from the dado stack? Why? I do both, just asking the crowd.
So how do you cut a rabbit?
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Cutting rabbits can get a little messy. If you have a Sawstop, make sure the brake is disabled first as rabbits conduct just like people. Just take the cut easy, wear eye protection, and don't let the kids watch. :tinysmile_tongue_t:
Meat cutting blade on the band saw :gar-Bi
The router table is the way I do them. I have a very large router table that makes it easy
The router table is the way I do them. I have a very large router table that makes it easy
Ok, I will try to be serious just this once.
I think it depends on much of a rabbit (size and quantity) I have to do. Sometimes a handheld router with a rabbit bit for just a few. Other times the router table -- but too many just kills bits and takes a long time. Usually on the tablesaw with the sacrificial fence. The tablesaw does it effortlessly and with a good blade set you will get excellent results.
I think it depends on much of a rabbit (size and quantity) I have to do. Sometimes a handheld router with a rabbit bit for just a few. Other times the router table -- but too many just kills bits and takes a long time. Usually on the tablesaw with the sacrificial fence. The tablesaw does it effortlessly and with a good blade set you will get excellent results.
Neither. My saw will not accept a dado. :-(
So, I use a rabbeting bit in the router.
So, I use a rabbeting bit in the router.
J
jeff...
It's been a while but I used to trap and cut a lot of rabbits when I was younger and lived up in Northern IL. There aren't very many rabbits around here in NC but up there they are everywhere.
If recall correctly... these are the steps to cutting big rabbits.
1 Dress rabbit as soon as possible
2 Keep everything clean
3 Cut off the head and feet
4 Hold the rabbit by the loose skin on the back and make a cut down the entire length of only the skin.
5 Peel the skin off the flesh including the tail
6 Remove entrails (Cut open the abdomen, reach inside and remove all internal organs)
7 Rinse and hang in a cool place just a little above freezing around 40 degrees for a little while. An old frig makes a good hanger / cooler.
8 Package and freeze.
Pretty easy really...
You can use the rabbit brain to tan it's hide if you want to save the skin and of course some think rabbit feet are lucky - I never thought that way myself.
Big rabbits are a little bit tough, go for the small tender ones, you'll be glad you did.
Thanks
If recall correctly... these are the steps to cutting big rabbits.
1 Dress rabbit as soon as possible
2 Keep everything clean
3 Cut off the head and feet
4 Hold the rabbit by the loose skin on the back and make a cut down the entire length of only the skin.
5 Peel the skin off the flesh including the tail
6 Remove entrails (Cut open the abdomen, reach inside and remove all internal organs)
7 Rinse and hang in a cool place just a little above freezing around 40 degrees for a little while. An old frig makes a good hanger / cooler.
8 Package and freeze.
Pretty easy really...
You can use the rabbit brain to tan it's hide if you want to save the skin and of course some think rabbit feet are lucky - I never thought that way myself.
Big rabbits are a little bit tough, go for the small tender ones, you'll be glad you did.
Thanks
I thought the first step was to shoot'em and the last step was to eat'em. Rabbit's are good eating!
Seriously, I prefer dado with sac fence but have used router on occasion.
Rob
J
jeff...
Yeah it's best to pop em off while they are in the trap with one of those pump pellet guns - a lot less mess that way. My first hunting experience with double barrel 12 ga. loaded with bird shot, poor little rabbit hops right out in front of me... all that was left was fur and bloody rabbit parts scattered in the snow. We were supposed to be hunting ring neck pheasant, I don't know what I was thinking :roll: There are no pheasant around here. Pheasant my friend is some good eating, not to mention just a lot of fun hunting.
I had an excellent bird and rabbit dog when I was a young guy. A full blooded female cocker spaniel named ginger she was red. On one occasion a buddy and I were hunting rabbit and one ran up a steep hill. I was tired of wading through the snow and did not feel like climbing up the hill. So my buddy went up there shot the rabbit, my dog picked it up ran down the hill and dropped it at my feet, that there is a good dog
We still joke around about that one when we talk.
J
jeff...
Never tried vinegar and red pepper, but have spit them over a open fire and they are pretty good that way. I still have the roasted rabbit and veggies recipe I used for many years - we would fry the quarters and then bake in the oven. Let me know if you want the recipe and I'll type it up... It works well and taste great... Not to mention very healthy. It's so good as a matter of fact, it's cured many who were reluctant about eating "cute lil bunny foo foo"
It depends on the size and number to be cut but I would choose:
Shaper
Table Saw
Hand Plane
Router
and last but not least Steak Knife...
Best,
Notorious T.O.D.
Shaper
Table Saw
Hand Plane
Router
and last but not least Steak Knife...
Best,
Notorious T.O.D.
Ahhhhh....something I haven't had in 20 years...Fried Cottontail Rabbit, gravy and biscuits. I grew up in Southern Illinois and spent almost every winter since I was 8 years old (when Dad got me my 1st shotgun) hunting rabbits both walk hunting and with beagles (man that is one beautiful sound a beagle on the trail of a rabbit). Your right not many rabbits around in NC, Man I really miss those days..............
James
James
You know, until you posted this, I never even thought about cutting it with the rip fence away from the dado blade (i.e. cutting on the left side of teh work piece instead of the right). I guess I've only seen people cut rabbets on TV using a sacrificial fence. Or with a router table, but that's the same idea - bit close to the fence.
I would not want to cut on the left side when using a router though (work piece between fence and bit)...that would get hare-y. :slap:
J
jeff...
I know what you mean - I thought a lot about old memories when I was a young guy growing up in northern IL. We had thousands of acres of field and woods to hunt. Last time I was up there about 8 years ago all that hunting ground was developed into residential neighborhoods :tinysmile_cry_t:
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