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Rat Fleshing Tool #971035
11/05/08 12:39 PM 11/05/08 12:39 PM
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 511
Eastern Iowa
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Eastern Iowa
What do you guys use to flesh rats?

Member of the NTA, FTA and ITA
Re: Rat Fleshing Tool [Re: ] #971059
11/05/08 12:55 PM 11/05/08 12:55 PM
Joined: Sep 2008
Posts: 6,696
Newark, Ohio 83 years
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Posts: 6,696
Newark, Ohio 83 years
Putty knife ......

“Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.”

Have been trapping 77 years…
Re: Rat Fleshing Tool [Re: Actor] #971061
11/05/08 12:57 PM 11/05/08 12:57 PM
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Posts: 476
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ny
skining knfe

2012
catches/goals
Song dogs 0/2
Reds 1/5
coon 3/0
possoms 1/0
beaver 7/5
rats 60/100
mink 5/10
fisher 2/3
bobcat 2/1
Re: Rat Fleshing Tool [Re: bmead] #971083
11/05/08 01:17 PM 11/05/08 01:17 PM

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a butter knife.
Re: Rat Fleshing Tool [Re: ] #971133
11/05/08 01:37 PM 11/05/08 01:37 PM
Joined: Oct 2008
Posts: 938
missouri
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Posts: 938
missouri
tablespoon

you just cant fix stupid!!!!! not even with duck tape
Re: Rat Fleshing Tool [Re: motrapper#ll] #971138
11/05/08 01:39 PM 11/05/08 01:39 PM
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Posts: 467
Maine....45 years old
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Maine....45 years old
I use my Dexter Russell beaver knife. Not much to fleshing a rat.LOL

Mainecoydog

Take a kid trapping........
Re: Rat Fleshing Tool [Re: mainecoydog] #971207
11/05/08 02:17 PM 11/05/08 02:17 PM
Joined: Dec 2007
Posts: 1,010
N Central Iowa 40+
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N Central Iowa 40+
paint scraper

Brad Mohr
Re: Rat Fleshing Tool [Re: iayogi17] #971521
11/05/08 05:35 PM 11/05/08 05:35 PM
Joined: Aug 2007
Posts: 542
Baldwin Michigan 45 years old
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Baldwin Michigan 45 years old
Mommas favorite spoon....
Re: Rat Fleshing Tool [Re: Danrn] #971612
11/05/08 06:13 PM 11/05/08 06:13 PM
Joined: Mar 2007
Posts: 8,902
Central MN, sort of old
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Central MN, sort of old
A tablespoon but I have one side ground down so it has a bit of an edge to it. I use it on mink too.

I'm just happy to be here! Today I'm as young as I'll ever be and and older than I've ever been before!
Re: Rat Fleshing Tool [Re: MnMan] #971626
11/05/08 06:20 PM 11/05/08 06:20 PM

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Re: Rat Fleshing Tool [Re: ] #971703
11/05/08 07:02 PM 11/05/08 07:02 PM
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Posts: 520
MI
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You use a soup can, the open end. Pull the rat over a plywood form held to the work bench with a drywall screw. ( The wood form swings out of the way when not in use ). Takes about 35 seconds to do a rat. I have had more than one fur buyer say he likes my rats and I see the money I get, over and above the other guys that are selling ahead of me. Been dong it for 50 years that way. Good luck. LM.
Re: Rat Fleshing Tool [Re: LM Shortcut] #971728
11/05/08 07:12 PM 11/05/08 07:12 PM
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Posts: 1,369
MN.
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MN.
LM. can you show a pic of your setup?

MICKEY MANTLE, BABE RUTH, HANK ARRON, HUNTINGMAXIMA, HARMON KILLEBREW, REGGIE JACKSON, TED WILLIAMS
Re: Rat Fleshing Tool [Re: huntingmaxima] #971882
11/05/08 08:13 PM 11/05/08 08:13 PM
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i would love to see a pic two

2012
catches/goals
Song dogs 0/2
Reds 1/5
coon 3/0
possoms 1/0
beaver 7/5
rats 60/100
mink 5/10
fisher 2/3
bobcat 2/1
Re: Rat Fleshing Tool [Re: bmead] #972047
11/05/08 09:16 PM 11/05/08 09:16 PM
Joined: Oct 2007
Posts: 434
sheboygan/stevens point WI
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sheboygan/stevens point WI
same here!

expect the worst and hope for the best
this $&!*s chess, it aint checkers
"tread lightly and carry a big stick" -theo rosey
Re: Rat Fleshing Tool [Re: JokersWild] #972135
11/05/08 09:53 PM 11/05/08 09:53 PM
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Near Alexandria, MN
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Same here!

www.irontrailtrapline.com
Re: Rat Fleshing Tool [Re: BanditBuster] #973052
11/06/08 11:45 AM 11/06/08 11:45 AM
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Posts: 153
saskatoon, saskatchewan, canad...
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all i use is my knife not a skinning knife i dont got one just a hunting fold up knife and just get the fat not the membrane and dont let it sit overnight like my grandpa told me too!!! bad i dea it was all hard and it dried weird.

-joseph-
new season, new traps, and new locatiions.
Re: Rat Fleshing Tool [Re: war_man_2009] #973172
11/06/08 12:43 PM 11/06/08 12:43 PM
Joined: Mar 2008
Posts: 3,882
Ohio, Old fart to some.
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Ohio, Old fart to some.
just round off the corners slightly with a file.






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