we have a youth hunt coming up in March, and they ask if I would be interested in help teaching the people how to clean up there squirrels, what is your best way to clean a bunch of them,

My friend has one similar to this[video:youtube]https://youtube.com/shorts/cWgXc4QkFZI[/video]

Sink like a mink. Leave the bone in the tail, put on a mink broad flesh salt tail pin it dry it and sale the hide and tail. Almost no hair on the squirrel gut wash done.

I do basically the same cuts in the video only I step on tail to pull. If you skin and dress them right while their warm. They skin way easier and cool faster. Just how I was taught years ago .

Any hair that is left.. hit it with a propane torch first a second and burn it off

I Make a cut at the base of the tail then stand on the tail and pull the squirell towards me by the back legs and cut around the ankles. Ya end up with the hide around the head to either skin the head out or cut it off.
Same way i skin a rat.

I just got one of these. I have always stepped on the tail and pulled them like most everybody else.

https://www.dogandhunt.com/products...EcJ71n4xpc9mXD4V1MP8q_ZVnWECbU3KZT3ew0XW

We used to cut the skin in the middle of the back, grab a hold either side of the cut and pull...do this when WARM!....lol

I make the same cut on base of tail but I mounted a piece of angle on a 4 inch post and put a pair of vise grips on the angle and clamp that to tail better than bending over the older we get

All we have are big tough fox squirrels, I think I'll start using my skinning machine.

I think you do it the way I do it. I make a cut in the back and work it tell I get my knife in and cut the skin around the middle. Then pull the pajamas off one way and the jacket off the other,cut the feet off at joints and the head and tail with some scissor shears.Then just zip it open and take the gutts out. I tried other ways and I never liked the results.such as you pull up and the gutts pop out or the tail pulls off etc… I have done many squirrels this way and still do it may take a little longer but the end results are worth it to me.

A pair of lineman’s pliers helps pulling the skin and cut the feet off I cut the tail also
Those lineman’s pliers I just started using because of arthritis in my hands and they snip off those feet like butter

My ocd wants to put the other 3 screws in for him.

We cut head , feet ,and tails off first , then slit skin on back and pull off both ends. Then gut 'em. Easiest way I've ever found.

Very interesting, never heard of that method.
Love to see a video of it.
Seems like hair everywhere.
Thanks !

Hang by back feet first.pull tail back towards ya and cut through tail bone but not the hyde.pull tail with bone in down fast and hard.cut off front feet.flip over and Hang from head now.grab what's left of white patch on belly and pull down hard to peel his britches off.cut back feet and head off,gut and done.helps to keep atleast one thumbnail long.thank me later

Just like Oleo said except I dunk them in a bucket of water first.

Only thing I would do different, is carry Ziplock bags, and skin as soon as they hit the ground.
Skin in less than a couple minutes , cold squirrel is like skinning a coyote!

That being said a coyote skins easy warm but smells like well you know lol.

You'd think all these trappers would be doing it that way. They skin muskrats, little mink, weasels, etc.. for near the same money.