Best season ever...
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Topic: Best season ever...
Posted By: d4570
Subject: Best season ever...
Date Posted: 02 July 2020 at 13:47
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We don't have a season but if we did it would be a barn burner. Cottontails, I don't hunt them often but in a great year if I get 2 or 3 a day and hit them 3 or 4 times a year I feel very good. WELL. The bunnies around my house went nuts this year. The past 5 years they has made them selves at home in my town. The past year they multiplied like rabbits. My plants and trees fell victim to there numbers, last 2 winters I found if I fed them they did not eat the shrubs down to the roots. They dug under EVERY thing and tear up the grass and they $hit, everywhere. There dens smell and attract flies and hornets. This year I declared war. Dug out my 17 cal co2 pellet pistol and went to work. I have to sneak around to shoot them I live between a high school and an elementary school with cameras 24/7/365. My Little GD, wife ,daughter and all the neighbors love them. So on the sly I have trashed 30 bunny bodies in 6 weeks. That's the ones that DRT no idea how many got out of sight before they kicked there last kick. I can't be out looking under the neighbors bushes. Anyway at that rate I's the Best season of rabbit hunting ever, AND there is still rabbits in every direction I look. Good thing I found boxes of 500 pellets and gas cylinders by the dozens.  ------------- Remember: Four boxes keep us free ,the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, AND the cartridge box |
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Posted By: BEAR
Date Posted: 02 July 2020 at 16:22
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Think of all those bunny burritos! On head shots, do they just jump around? I need to do the same thing with groundhogs (6# rats). ------------- “ The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other in opposite directions.” |
Posted By: d4570
Date Posted: 02 July 2020 at 16:45
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Back of the head they just tip over, bleed profusely. Heart or side of head (eye) yes the do the death dance all over the yard, not a good thing when your trying to be sneaky. Lung side they just hop in the air and run off never to be seen again. Funny when you hit them straight on in the forehead they just stand up and tip over backwards. Most are not dead they get there bearings, get up and run, not dead at all. Most are under 20 yards, That's how wide my lot is. ------------- Remember: Four boxes keep us free ,the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, AND the cartridge box |
Posted By: BEAR
Date Posted: 02 July 2020 at 17:32
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Interesting. I hunt lots of cottontails, but with a light load of 7 1/2 in a 16 gage shotgun. they flip and die. Going to have to take eye shots on my groundhogs. A non-instantaneous kill means "smell" for 2 weeks. I had gotten use to the 22 mag with 30 gr Vee-max. no movement. but new neighbors are 'touchie'. ------------- “ The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other in opposite directions.” |