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Old 01-26-2021, 08:44 PM
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Default Best muskrat scrappers?

If you had unlimited budget and were going to be buying scrappers to flesh muskrats with kids, which scrappers would you buy?

I'm looking for the easiest, not nesisicarily the fastest, scrappers for kids to use to flesh. Keep in mind their hand strength isn't like ours. Kids are 12 years old.

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Old 01-26-2021, 08:49 PM
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We fleshed 100s of rats as kids and in 2012 to 2015 probably a few thousand . We built all kinds of scrapers . But this puppy works the best. A butter knife with vet wrap on the handle. Most rats didn't have too much rat anyway. We only took the white fat off the thin red skin from the mid section to the tail stays

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Old 01-26-2021, 09:09 PM
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I've noticed anything sharp like a good coyote flesher or beaver flesher will rip the muskrat hides to shreds . We use to take a Sickle section from the haybine and weld an old screwdriver to it. We then would sand or file a small edge on the back side of the section making sure we never used the serated edges of the section .

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Old 01-26-2021, 10:15 PM
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Those one handed “stirrup” shaped scrapers are no good for you?
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Old 01-27-2021, 06:22 AM
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Done a pile with a lightly ground and sharpened tablespoon. Don’t overthink it. There’s not much to do on most rats
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Old 01-27-2021, 07:34 AM
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Done thousands with a paint scraper, stirrup wiebe style one is also a favorite.
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Old 01-27-2021, 12:39 PM
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Two handle triangle aluminum scraper. Four swipes and done.


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Old 01-27-2021, 02:15 PM
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Hard to beat the small pelt (stirrup) flesher:
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Old 01-27-2021, 07:54 PM
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THanks! I think I'll grab a bunch of the stirrup scrappers!
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Old 01-27-2021, 11:55 PM
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Yes Treeroot... attaboy!!!!!!!!
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Old 01-28-2021, 11:24 AM
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the spoon or a plastics window scraper with the corner filed down work great
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