rabbit hunting tips / best practise
- Thread starter Hiran
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This isn’t a bad idea.
Or go with someone who knows what they are doing. It will help you learn and also you might get a shooting buddy out of it
Thats a great suggestion thank you. What is max distance that is safe to guarantee a humane kill to the head with a sub 12ft lbs air gun? Will the FLO likely ask alot of questions when I tell them I want to have ground vermin added to my license? Is this the same process as submitting a variation as im looking to change calibre anyway from .223 to .357.
Stevie/P
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25 yards
Thats a great suggestion, thank you! I have these reactive targets already if that will be sufficient ...Get into Ryman stationery in your High Street. Buy a pack of their 30mm self-adhesive orange discs to use as targets.
Put one disc on each of several sheets of A4 printer paper.
Using a measuring tape, place one target 10 yards from your firing point, one 15 yards, one 20 yards and so on.
Now - using exactly the equipment and shooting position that you will be using in the field - fire a 3-shot group at each target in succession, nearest to farthest.
The range at which your first bullet strikes outside a 30mm disc is beyond your maximum field shooting distance. Restrict yourself to closer shots.
maximus otter
Before you think of getting your license opened up it would seem you need to gain a lot more experience. Good luck.
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5MM/.20Man
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Try 70 yards in excellent windless conditions .
Sub 12 are certainly up to the job , otd the person behind the trigger .
5MM/.20Man
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Im late to this post , are you any closer to getting a pcp air rifle ?
Sub 12 is all i shoot they are a perfect tool for Rabbits
MagicLantern
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Don't be tempted to shoot the first rabbit that comes out from a burrow. It's most likely an expendable lookout. Let that one settle down and more will emerge.
Sub 12-realistically 40 yards maximum range, always better with less. Over 40 and you are introducing too much time for any quarry to move. Having said that this has to come from within you. We all have to decide our own limits.
I wouldn’t bother trying to get your existing rifle changed over to AOLQ. I think you are better off talking to the FLO and then putting in for a new rifle for hunting, 22lr/17hmr or FAC air…it seems cleaner to me and will almost certainly be what you do eventually anyway. 22lrs etc are so cheap does it matter? I’d be going minimum 22. In fac air but probably .25 or .30.
I doubt they’d give you an open ticket if you’ve never shot outside before so if the land isn’t already it’ll have to be cleared for whatever calibre you want and this may be a discussion and limit what you can buy.
17hmr is popular for rabbits as well, a little more range than 22lr but less chance of richochet due to bullets fragmenting although there are other issue with 17hmr but worth looking into.
In the meantime buy yourself a sub 12 pcp in 177 and some sticks (trigger sticks/quad sticks or tripod/bipod) and get out there on the land, start looking for where they are with info from the landowner and then start working out when they are out and about. Try and get yourself into good positions with field craft and shoot when you feel comfortable. Couple this with a lot of plinking practice outside, sub 12 is about knowing your aim points and trajectories so set up targets at 10-20-30-40 and make up a dope sheet for your aim points. A scope with info in like mil dots will be useful for this, hard to look past Hawke for air rifle scopes.
Other than that get out there and have fun plinking or hunting, they are a worthy adversary and you’ll spend most of the time spooking them to start with but it’s about getting out there. Keep us updated.
I wouldn’t bother trying to get your existing rifle changed over to AOLQ. I think you are better off talking to the FLO and then putting in for a new rifle for hunting, 22lr/17hmr or FAC air…it seems cleaner to me and will almost certainly be what you do eventually anyway. 22lrs etc are so cheap does it matter? I’d be going minimum 22. In fac air but probably .25 or .30.
I doubt they’d give you an open ticket if you’ve never shot outside before so if the land isn’t already it’ll have to be cleared for whatever calibre you want and this may be a discussion and limit what you can buy.
17hmr is popular for rabbits as well, a little more range than 22lr but less chance of richochet due to bullets fragmenting although there are other issue with 17hmr but worth looking into.
In the meantime buy yourself a sub 12 pcp in 177 and some sticks (trigger sticks/quad sticks or tripod/bipod) and get out there on the land, start looking for where they are with info from the landowner and then start working out when they are out and about. Try and get yourself into good positions with field craft and shoot when you feel comfortable. Couple this with a lot of plinking practice outside, sub 12 is about knowing your aim points and trajectories so set up targets at 10-20-30-40 and make up a dope sheet for your aim points. A scope with info in like mil dots will be useful for this, hard to look past Hawke for air rifle scopes.
Other than that get out there and have fun plinking or hunting, they are a worthy adversary and you’ll spend most of the time spooking them to start with but it’s about getting out there. Keep us updated.
What a classic miserable SD response. we all started somewhere didn’t we and shouldn’t we be encouraging people to get out there? He’s clearly taking it seriously and is asking questions to do things properly-we don’t know what we don’t know…
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