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I saw the outdoor writer last night. Bob was at this party with a bunch other old-timers. One lady had brought her 19 yr old kid to the shindig. The kid engaged me in a discussion of hunting. We had a nice talk about turkey, deer, shotguns, etc. Then the kid asked me about squirrels.

Yes, I'd shot squirrels.

How do you eat a squirrel?

I referred the kid across the room to my buddy, now 70, for the definative explanation on how to clean a squirrel.

"Hey Bob, what kind of X-Acto blade do you use on squirrels?"

Bob started all over again with the description. Another old-timer (also named Bob) joined in with the argument of a #2 versus a #18 blade, and another generation of would-be hunter was sucked in.

I prefer to pretend I'm letting my son get some practice and let him do it. He isn't actually falling for this, but he ends up doing it quit often, works for me!!!

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....I could'a swore there was no easy way to skin a squirrel! I thought I'd tried it all, including both methods described above. After seeing the video I know there are people who make the stepped on tail method work! It had never worked well for me, but now I've gathered courage to give it another try...Thanks for the encouraging video (You swear it wasn't a trick squirrel?)...

I cant wait to get a squirrel myself, I'm dying to give this method a try.