SwampFox wrote: |
We do not have jacks here, only cottontails. I started hunting rabbits when I could hold the gun up. I always hunted two ways, along a rirt road or lane in the late afternoon, just before dark. The bunnies come out on the edge of the lane and munch on tender grass. I use a 510 Remington with shorts for the head shots. But I really love to shoot behind a mower deck in a pasture of tall grass with a 12ga. Start mowing grass at the fence and work in. At a point rabbits start running in all directions, across mowed ground. They throw on the afterburner and the shooting is fast. Ed |
gelandangan wrote: |
Err.. somebody say "ELMER" ? Well, this Elmer here is goin to blast those blasted wabbit wit a 45-70 this Christmas break But, if you want the meat, well, you got to use smaller calibre |
Vince wrote: |
any waskelwy wabbit you wallop wit a 45-70 is gonna be red mist ... BOOM ...SPLAT....pooffffth (visualise a large red smudge on the landscape at this point !!!) 8O |
SwampFox wrote: |
You would have been welcome Bushy. Vince, I was over shooting rabbits on Saturday but they were the orange variety, hard to clean and hard to cook. |
SwampFox wrote: |
Our station #12 now has two rabbit traps set up. When you get true pairs it is real quick shooting, following rabbits. But the 525 O/U 12ga gun was up to the task. I use cylinder chokes and 1 1/8 oz of #9s. Shots are from a 12 ft embankment down to the wabbits running and jumping through brush. Ed |
elvis wrote: |
when hungry I have shot them with .270 .303 .30/30 .410 .22 no such thing as too much gun. |
Vince wrote: | ||
Holy thing-a-ma-bobs Batman.....270 .303 .30/30 !?!?!? Anything less than a head shot would give you instant red mist...and even a head shot would be touch and go. Cheers, Vince |
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