Rabbit Jerky 1st Time.

[howabouttheiris]

Picture heavy, but maybe my new favorite .....

Starting to take stock of my freezer space going into the new season. I had some leftover rabbits that I had not worked into sausage recipes, and knowing how lean they were decided to try jerky.



Cleaned my last 3 and netted about 4.5lbs of meat. Cubed it small and put it into a Backwoods Hot jerky packet and threw in a Papa Johns pizza order of red pepper flake packets.

Allowed it to cure, then this am went to work.



1st grind.



2nd grind.



Used my breakfast link shooter to push it right onto the trays.



After 3 hours at 158f.



Just about done, at 9 hours.... I like it dry.



Really like the test piece that I just had. It also passed the teenager test.

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[lost cajun]

Sounds awesome!


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[brysdad]

Interesting. What kind of rabbits?

[mossman500]

Looks really good!

[howabouttheiris]

Interesting. What kind of rabbits?

Just Coke Co. jack rabbits.... nothing exotic.

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[Man]

I have never had jack rabbit becouse all my buddies/family members say their nasty so we leave them for the buzzards. Funny thing it none of them have actually ever had one. I need to stop listening to people and just come to my own conclusions.

[El Viejo]

I have never had jack rabbit becouse all my buddies/family members say their nasty so we leave them for the buzzards. Funny thing it none of them have actually ever had one. I need to stop listening to people and just come to my own conclusions.

Jackrabbits are good for jerky since they're so lean. A young one is even decent cooked up and eaten.

[howabouttheiris]

Jackrabbits are good for jerky since they're so lean. A young one is even decent cooked up and eaten.

I honestly can't think of anything so nasty that you could not make jerky out of it.

[Fla Hunter]

Interesting for sure...

[Strummer]

Great idea . I'm fixing to get my first pen of meat rabbits .

[Brute Killer]

I was wondering why you would grind up rabbit, then I saw that they were jacks.
I tried fried jack once; it got shot along with some cottontails.
Was like eating rubber bands.