It is one of those things best seen, rather than looking over illustrations. I've explained it a dozen times to a fellow from Ohio on another forum and he can't for the life of him get the knack of it. I've given him a link to the video, written magazine article length descriptions of the process, and he still pulls the tail off! He's going to come here this fall deer hunting and we'll kill a mess of squirrels, I plan on showing him by cleaning a few myself, then coaching him through it until he figures this out. Once you've done it, no biggie. However, some have real trouble getting started.


Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.