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First off, I field dress my squirrell on the spot - it's totally gutted. Holding the squirrel in my hand, belly up and tail away, I make a cut from just below the rib cage to the anus where the knife is inserted through the pelvis and leveraged up to cut through it. (It doesn't take much effort to do so.) I turn the squirrel around and make a second cut up through the ribcage to the throat, open up the body cavity and pull everything out. From throat to anus, everything is pulled free and discarded. (However, I do keep the livers. My cat loves them.) After making sure I have removed everything internal I don't want, I remove the head, tail and paws. Those stay in the woods, too. Even though I place the carcass in a plastic bag, I leave the hide on, and for two reasons. One, it's an added measure of protection for the meat. And, secondly, keeping hair from the hide off the meat is tough enough to do when skinning even under the best conditions. Doing so in the yard is even harder still. I just wait 'til I get inside to deal with that matter.Finally, when time comes to remove the hide, I just make a skin deep cut across the middle of the back, work my fingers into the slit and pull in opposite directions - one direction to where the head use to be and the other direction to where the tail use to be. Squirrels aren't like rabbits. They don't care to give up their hides easily; and some are even tougher than others. Pull! The hide will rip at the slit and eventually, with some effort, come off the animal. To minimize the amount of hair that might well end up on the meat, wetting the carcass/hide throughly before the skinning process is started does seem to help, at the least, a wee bit. Once skinned, throughly rinse/wash the carcass. From there you can cut it up as you might care to. ..

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My Blog

Long Journey Home: The White Brothers and the Birth of Country Rock

Long Journey Home: The White Brothers and the Birth of Country Rock by Bob Moses on June 9, 2009 at 8:15pm The journey of Clarence White and his brothers offers a useful corrective for those inclined ...
Posted by on Tue, 16 Jun 2009 07:51:00 GMT

Greezy Wheels owned Austin back around 1974

Sometimes the BrideLissa Hattersley greases her own wheelBy Margaret Moser Outside Mother's Cafe in Hyde Park on a soft May morning, Lissa Hattersley brushed a lock of hair from her eyes and gazed wes...
Posted by on Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:46:00 GMT

Ryan Bingham

LA TIMES: The Rawness is Realviews: 3745 | comments (0) THERE are nights when Ryan Bingham sounds just like what he is, and there's no shame in that.He sounds like a kid. Twenty-six years old, on pa...
Posted by on Thu, 28 May 2009 14:41:00 GMT

Aftermath: Steve Earle at Cactus Music- (I was at this show)

Aftermath: Steve Earle at Cactus MusicBy William Michael Smith in Live Shots, Texas MeMonday, May. 18 2009 @ 1:00PM....Video by Craig HlavatyPhotos by Craig HlavatyGuided from the office by Cactus Mus...
Posted by on Tue, 19 May 2009 08:36:00 GMT

Last Call at Poodies Bar

Last Call at Poodies BarPoodie Locke, longtime stage manager for Willie Nelson, died Wednesday at the age of 56.by Michael HallThe men were drunk last night at Poodies Hilltop Bar and Grill, but the...
Posted by on Fri, 08 May 2009 12:32:00 GMT

Last Outlaw Standing

Billy Joe Shaver: Last Outlaw Standing"Why steal from anybody?" songwriting legend Billy Joe Shaver told me recently. "People in Texas don't repeat anything anybody else says as their own," he insiste...
Posted by on Wed, 06 May 2009 07:49:00 GMT

The Greatest Drunk On Earth!

Do you have a favorite drunkard?Some amazing man or woman, past or present, who stands colossus-like atop the Big Keg, the ground below littered with crushed empties and the blacked-out carcasses of l...
Posted by on Fri, 01 May 2009 07:37:00 GMT

The Immortals - The Greatest Artists of All Time: #87) Gram Parsons - By Keith Richards

The Immortals - The Greatest Artists of All Time: 87) Gram Parsons By Keith Richards Posted Apr 22, 2005 12:00 AMLike I know the blues, Gram Parsons knew country music -- every nuance, every great cou...
Posted by on Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:02:00 GMT

The house that Don Walser built, 1934-2006

http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=4061 19 Song for My FatherThe house that Don Walser built, 1934-2006By Mark Rubin Let me state it plainly: If you find yourself singing onstage i...
Posted by on Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:31:00 GMT

"Jerry Jeff Walker, hell-raising poet"-Country Rambler - October 7, 1976

Country Rambler - October 7, 1976<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />...."Jerry Jeff Walker, hell-raising poet"....By John Moulder.... ....Once, after fou...
Posted by on Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:41:00 GMT