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| Strider |
Smelly Rabbit Hands !Hi Shed Dwellers,I've had a few rabbits in the last month with the catty - we always eat what I shoot and rabbit is delicious, but I can't stand that horrible smell that gets on your hands when you skin and then butcher the rabbit. Is there anyone out there with an old ( or new ) fashioned tip to get rid of smelly rabbit hands ? Cheers Strider |
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| mk3 |
stainless steel soap,, or any stainless steel | ||||
| fossil |
the thing that works for me is tomato sauce, wash your hands with soap first and then squirt a load of tommy sauce onto your hands, rub well in, and rinse, that genally works for me..
I got the idea from people who have been sprayed by skunks in the usa, they used to bath in tomato juice to get rid of the smell, so i tried it on my hands and it works for me!! ATB |
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| Strider |
Thanks for the replies,
I wouldn't have thought of those in a million years ( I had to Google stainless steel soap just to find out what it was ! ) I'll give em both a try and let you know how I get on. Cheers Strider |
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| mr=punch |
Disposable latex gloves I always use them in the field as I smoke and don't like all the blood and guts on my hands whilst puffing on a rollup.
If you look just at the back of a male rabbit just by the tail you will see the scent gland it is a good idea to remove this as well it cuts the smell right down. see here http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w194/jacketch/PIC00011.jpg |
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| fish |
well done chaps ,that was fascinating! ive been using lime swarfega for years and that isnt 100% effective. | ||||
| Morlan75 |
Ive got a free and easy way of solving that problem... I get Richie to do it for me 
Naaa seriously the stainless steel soap you can get is brilliant gets rid of fish gut smell really well too. |
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| fish |
just baught one of these:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Stainless-S...9b518&_trksid=p3286.m63.l1177 |
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| bullfrog |
I think it is part & parcel of rabbiting,if you have a good days ferreting you could be skinning alot of bunnies 20+ you soon get use to it 
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| ratbuster |
Besides the stainless steel soap bar, you can use a mixture of a fair amount of salt with liquid soap and rubbing it on your hands. leave it for a minute or two and rinse it off.
Takes away most of the smell of guts, fish etc. Cheers, RB |
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| Strider |
Hi All, OK last but one rabbit I tried Fossils trick with the tomato sauce - it works great ! It really improved on the normal soap routine but with a slight side effect of having hands smelling slightly of tomato sauce ! Well you can't have it all I thought. Tonight I went for a walk with the catty and had another rabbit, this time I tried RB's method of salt and washing up liquid and again it really works very well. I still have to try the stainless steel soap but until then the salt + washing up liquid it is !!
Cheers Strider |
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| Adam |
Yep - I got one for removing the smell of fish when I was doing a lot of reservoir fly fishing. I took one look at it and thought "Bo11ox! That'll never work!" but it's now my first line of attack for anything smelly. BEWARE: while it takes away the smells of most things and does make your hands clean, one thing it DOESN'T do is remove chilli - wear gloves when chopping chillies or wear gloves when taking a wizz after chopping chillies - no need to ask me how I know! It was a scotch bonnet chilli, so not exactly a 'calm one'. |
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| the farrier |
Washing your hands in cold water rather than hot will help stop the smell from being absorbed into the skin.The tomato sauce trick is useful when used on the dog after it has rolled in something really nasty! | ||||