Just putting it out there , been stalking a couple of times and been successful, having watched guide do gralloch think it is now time for me to do gralloch . Anyone out there willing to let me help doing gralloch on maybe a cull day ! Based on Leicestershire/ Warwickshire border but willing to travel for the experience. Any replies would be great.
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- Thread starter Fishcake
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how do you do or have done your rabbits as apt from bleeding there is not much difference only in size.
deerstalker.308
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maybe you’ll get lucky, but I’m hedging my bets that will be an outside chance, no harm asking though, plus as Tim says, nowt complex about it, just big bunnies really (ish)
Free range rob
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Sorry tim, I agree with most of your posts but not this one.
i have never checked nodes in rabbits, I’ve never cut the ring out, I’ve never opened the neck, apart from the green and the lights, I think they are a lot different.
i have never checked nodes in rabbits, I’ve never cut the ring out, I’ve never opened the neck, apart from the green and the lights, I think they are a lot different.
deerstalker.308
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Basic principals aren’t far off.... yeah, ok, not checking lymph nodes etc, but I think folk often fear gralloching a deer for other reasons, not the inspection process....
A new shooter would not be looking for those, liver fluke the sack with clear fluid holding a parisite
easy to break the **** bag and gut on a rabbit...learnt that @ 12 so it is not hard to swap into deer...
Adding to my reply years of rabbits etc you get to know what is wrong very quickly with a rabbit that filters down to foxes pigeon ducks with rice brest...and the holly grail Deer
So I stick to my 47 years of cleaning out quarry as it has served me well.
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NewForester
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Hi Fishcake
I went on a course at Sparsholt Agricultural College when it had culled part of its resident Sika herd. I must have gralloched five or six sika, one after another with supervision. At the end of it you feel you can do it. (All suspended gralloch, but you get to see what is what.) It may be worth checking to see if any local agricultural colleges have something similar.
(Charles Smith Jones was one of the lecturers and he must have seen some concern on my face as more and more carcasses kept piling up at the larder door. He said, "Don't worry, just imagine that it is a big rabbit". I said, "I've never done a rabbit!".)
NF.
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Muntybuck5803
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If someone is available to take you out then great, although the travel in the current climate may be an issue I should think. YouTube is your best friend in this instance and you can learn a lot from watching the various videos on the topic.
What you’ll probably find is that you’ll take bits and pieces from different techniques and develop your own way of doing things that will work for you. Above all as long as it’s clean and you know your inspection then it’s all good. There’s no black art to it.
What you’ll probably find is that you’ll take bits and pieces from different techniques and develop your own way of doing things that will work for you. Above all as long as it’s clean and you know your inspection then it’s all good. There’s no black art to it.
deerstalker.308
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this is true, and seldom are two grallochs the exact same! Where they’re shot (geographically and physically) daylight, weather, species, it’s just a case of making the best, clean, tidy job every time, regardless of the scenario.
in fact none are ever the same as each animal is different just like there is only one Andy and one Tim (thank god lol)
RichardAllen
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Apart from DSC1 instruction (which did not include a beast due to a last minute hiccup), I 'learned' to gralloch from a BDS DVD by Chris Howard: 3 DVD Stalking Bundle (Free UK P+P)
There are also other videos on Youtube, (I recall a very cunning Irish chap, can't remember his name).
Almost all my gralloch's are suspended in daylight, though I have done one or two with a head torch, and one gralloch on the ground in complete dark by feel only (long story, did not cut myself) !
I use a Victorinox Hunter XS grip. Being able easily to switch between knife and serrated edge for sternum etc, (rather than having two knives) I find very convenient.
I am still learning and fouled up the latest one a bit by puncturing a full bladder, damnit.
As I don't generally gralloch rabbits (I just take hind legs and backstraps), I cannot really draw a comparison. Suffice to say deer are bigger, bloodier, messier, smellier (especially if gut shot), and thus a little daunting, but all in all not so different.
The only real tutor is go out and shoot one for yourself, expect to be hyperventilating through much of the gralloch, and get as clean a beast as you can into your roe sack.
Richard
There are also other videos on Youtube, (I recall a very cunning Irish chap, can't remember his name).
Almost all my gralloch's are suspended in daylight, though I have done one or two with a head torch, and one gralloch on the ground in complete dark by feel only (long story, did not cut myself) !
I use a Victorinox Hunter XS grip. Being able easily to switch between knife and serrated edge for sternum etc, (rather than having two knives) I find very convenient.
I am still learning and fouled up the latest one a bit by puncturing a full bladder, damnit.
As I don't generally gralloch rabbits (I just take hind legs and backstraps), I cannot really draw a comparison. Suffice to say deer are bigger, bloodier, messier, smellier (especially if gut shot), and thus a little daunting, but all in all not so different.
The only real tutor is go out and shoot one for yourself, expect to be hyperventilating through much of the gralloch, and get as clean a beast as you can into your roe sack.
Richard
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NewForester
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Burley, Forest50. And you?
RichardAllen
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Make sure to keep the liver (lower pic top left). Pop it into a ziplock bag for making just the best pate. I also keep kidneys (upper picture in the middle you can see one, the other one will be behind and to the right), and now the heart for a breakfast fry up. Again popped into a ziplock and straight into the fridge.
NewForester
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(I recall a very cunning Irish chap, can't remember his name).
I don't know if you are thinking of Fieldsports Ireland and Jason Doyle (who is on here). He did a very good video on gralloching and I try to use his method in the field. I try to get the whole intestinal tract out in one piece, as a kind of little challenge to myself.
The dogs have liver kidneys heart if it head shot, neck meat ribs
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