How to skin a pheasant: Shooting Times

How to skin a pheasant.

Presented by Shooting Times' cookery writer, Mark Hinge.

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[Bex2078]

Very easy to follow ! Will be using this next week to sort a brace of pheasant . Thank you x

[Novice562]

Very clear and easy to understand. I skinned my first pheasant today and thanks to your help it went like a dream. Your presenter has a homely voice which makes you believe in him and what he is doing.

[darcor2]

Why do these retards who hate seeing animals killed butchered or anything else, watch these videos knowing they are a bunch of pansies and can't handle something that their great grand parents had to do to survive. To those activists... everything has to die so you can eat. Plants are living organisms that grow too you know. Great video my friend. It was a great help to me. I killed two birds and wasn't doing a good job.

[yootooberism]

thanks Mark. clear instructions, much appreciated. Had 8 birds to deal with and couldn't be bothered to pluck all of them. alternatively, if anyones interested, my local butcher plucks and guts for £1.50 per animal. always nice to have options.

[saintprawn]

@mylittlepollay so you have a bigger problem of them being shot and being in pain for a few seconds than having their throat slit in a slaughterhouse? you totally make sense.

this is one thing that humans have mostly different to animals. there aren't any animals which are uptight about everything and care about how its food is treated. if a lion was ripping out the guts of a zebra you would have no problem but if a human was gutting a zebra to feed a deprived family you would have a problem

[mdgmdg76]

The reason for hanging for a few days is the muscles have time to relax and also it gives time to enhance the taste and flavor of the meat. This is common in deer hunting also. The thing is the temp has to be right when you hang the animal. For a pheasant you would want the temp to be 50-55 degrees F.

[mylittlepollay]

this is absolutely disturbing to animal enthusiasts. I am appalled at the lack of respect for this bird's spirit. Gross.

[cosmos413]

@rcpro17 Dude, really? if you're too squeamish why did you watch the video in the first place? You do know that people do eat meat? For me, I'd rather hunt, kill and clean my own meat so I know where it comes from, doesn't have any crap pumped into it and prepared it myself. Don't judge others until you know the facts, it makes you seem infantile and small

[cosmos413]

@AIONLotus And I suppose cows, chickens and sheep are ugly creatures

[PIcHseFlm]

First attempt at skinning a pheasant .. worked perfectly... thank you.