Module 6 of 8 Core
After the Shot: Tularemia, Field Care & Table
Handle, field-dress, and cook a rabbit safely — including the real tularemia precautions that make rabbit one of the few small game animals with a genuine handling hazard.
Best after: The Two Styles: Beagles & Walk-Up
Lessons
4 lessons in this module · 35 across the path
- Tularemia: The Hazard Every Rabbit Hunter Must Know SAFETY: leads with the correct model for tularemia — wear gloves and eye protection when dressing, avoid sluggish or spotted-liver rabbits, wash hands and tools, and know early symptoms; no guess-then-reveal.
- Field-Dressing a Cottontail Covers gutting and skinning a rabbit cleanly with gloves on, what a healthy carcass looks like, and what white liver spots or abnormal tissue mean for discarding it.
- Aging the Rabbit & Cooling the Meat Teaches how to judge a young rabbit from an old one and how to cool, bag, and transport the carcass to keep the meat safe and good.
- Cooking Rabbit Safely & Well SAFETY plus table fare: cooking rabbit to a safe internal temperature to kill tularemia, plus classic Piedmont preparations that suit young versus old rabbits.