CNN is actually running an article advocating the consumption of squirrels. A real decent article - considering where it is posted.

There is also a poll showing more than 2/3 of the respondents have eaten squirrel; or would, given the opportunity.

Just kinda stunned and amazed. And glad to see that article on that left leaning "news" source.

Squirrel

Makes me wish I still had some in my freezer.

I wish they were easier to skin. There's a gazillion of them around here and I like to hunt them and eat them but I HATE to skin them.

I love fried squirrel - season opens shortly.

Why the stunned and amazed.
Squirrel really is good and CNN and lots of other media have championed hunting in various flavors in recent years. You guys just don't want to hear it.

I know what you mean. Just an hour after their dead you just about need a chain saw. Tough skin on them rodents. They do taste good though.

There are some tricks to skinning. Youtube will get you quite a few and there as a discussion on 24's small game forum not too long ago.

I think it�s obvious we do want to hear it.

Brent, I must have missed all of those stories, but I'm not a regular there.

Regardless of how you'd like to twist it in one of your signature drive-bys, I was glad to see a pro-hunting article on a site known to not champion some of our more down to earth pursuits. Thought I'd give them credit for the open mindedness.

46 seconds.

That method works but he's done it more than once.! I tried his method and the first few times the tail pulled off. Would take some more trial and error, but it works.

That is the way I do it but I am nowhere near the 46 second mark.
I suspect that squirrel was very young and very fresh!

Deer, I think the trick is to leave as wide a hunk of skin as possible connecting to the tail. I always try to cut no farther around the tail than I have to, often having to reach in with the point of the knife to cut the last couple of tendons. Then I make cuts down the legs at an angle of nearly 90 degrees to the spine.

BTW, that dude had a wonderfully sharp knife, too.

If you have the arm strength to do it you can also skin them by making a cut through the hide at about mid-body most of the way around the squirrel. Then you hook your fingers under the two different sections of hide and pull. I never really practiced the method but have seen some good hunters use it.

CNN sez "Get used to alternative food sources!"

Just look around a little more. The constant put-down of the media isn't always deserved and stories like this one are conveniently forgotten when suddenly the "liberal media" comes up with a story about something less appetizing to the straight laced.

The point being, the liberal media ain't quite so liberal as it is portrayed here.

Brent, I'm very happy to have seen this story and I'd welcome you to link to others in the same vein.

Good stuff.