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10 years ago they say you could see the hill moving with them.


This is very true it is the same here. In the good day's i used to have 4 clips with ten rounds in shoot them off then stop paunch the rabbits reload the clips and carry on. Now i only carry 2 clips. I am out tonight i will let you know how i get on.

Jimbo
 
The rabbits around me are in decline over the last few years, farms that used to hold a good number now hold very few, I still have good land with a good number on, but I have to travel,It is becoming a struggle finding enough to keep my little hawk going, my take on it is the rise in the badger poulation, they will dig the young out at every opportunity,in fact sometimes out lamping I see more badgers than bunnies.
 
I would like to think that with many areas reporting a dearth of rabbits, that people would make more of an effort to treat them as a food source rather than as vermin, ie, head shot for maximum eating value.
As for badgers, local farmer had three sheep die overnight, and all of them consequently had their innards almost completely eaten out before morning when he found them. No surprise to know of a thriving badger sett nearby, and almost no rabbits to be seen. More hares than rabbits up there.
 
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On one piece of land I shoot on 3 warrens have been taken over in the last 4 yeas and are now setts.
 
We shouldn't need to discuss whether its worth making the effort to shoot a rabbit cleanly. Of course it is. All vermin species, even rats, behave the way they do out of survival instinct, not spite. They don't know any different. There's no malice in the damage they do and there should be none in our response. (I admit I have to work hard to remind myself of this fact when it comes to moles.) If you make a mess of shooting a deer you can track it and despatch it. You can't track a rabbit when its gone to ground.
I'm take fewer rabbit heads shots now because the numbers are so low I need every carcase to feed my ferrets and they don't care about meat damage. When I do take them it depends on circumstances - stance (mine and the rabbit's), available light and wind levels - as much as range. Avoiding jaw and snout shots, the clean kill target area on an adult rabbit's head is a good inch to an inch and a half, even two inches with a big buck. With a comfortable posture and a supported rifle I'd expect to hit that all day long at 150 yards with an HMR or 70 yards with a .22. If I'm wobbling about on tiptoe on one leg peering over a hedge in a howling gale, I wouldn't. Its as simple as that really.
 
If you hit them with more than a 22 rimfire calibre, & dead is dead! rabbits are rabbits , use an efficient calibre for what you shoot.
 
Jimbo 30 06 said:
10 years ago they say you could see the hill moving with them.


This is very true it is the same here. In the good day's i used to have 4 clips with ten rounds in shoot them off then stop paunch the rabbits reload the clips and carry on. Now i only carry 2 clips. I am out tonight i will let you know how i get on.

Jimbo
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I got 14 last night my lamp man said i was sacked as i missed 1 :doh:(everyone misses now and again). He said that they are to scarse on the ground to miss. The photo shows nine the other 5 are on the rack the other side of the truck. Years ago the time i was out last night i would have shot over 100 no problem. Good thing is the gamedealer is screaming out for them and pays £2-00 a Rabbit in the pelt.


Jimbo
 
Plenty of rabbits showing at the moment and a good market with game dealers crying out pluss the pet shops after them for reptile food
Happy days




All head shot with 22lr 30 to 100 yards from truck window or bipod
Another 150 on my last farm and then it will be out with the ferrets
 
RICK O SHEA said:
Plenty of rabbits showing at the moment and a good market with game dealers crying out pluss the pet shops after them for reptile food
Happy days




All head shot with 22lr 30 to 100 yards from truck window or bipod
Another 150 on my last farm and then it will be out with the ferrets
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That's how the back of my truck used to look like 4/5 nights a week but not anymore Ho Hum. Nice set of Monkey's you have (Ferrets we called them little monkey's).

Jimbo
 
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Malxwal said:
I would like to think that with many areas reporting a dearth of rabbits, that people would make more of an effort to treat them as a food source rather than as vermin, ie, head shot for maximum eating value.
As for badgers, local farmer had three sheep die overnight, and all of them consequently had their innards almost completely eaten out before morning when he found them. No surprise to know of a thriving badger sett nearby, and almost no rabbits to be seen. More hares than rabbits up there.
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A sheep farming friend has had several instances of ewes being "miss laid" that is trapped in a hollow on their backs, normally when they are too fat and broad across the back, if he does not spot them when doing his last lookering round of the day then by morning the "Newcastle fans" ie black and whites will have eaten their udders out alive. The ewe then dies of blood loss or shock, either way another valuable sheep is lost to Brock.... not many Badger huggers know this and I wish they could witness this.

Regards WB
 
+1 on the above.
​The truth hurts the badger huggers so they suppress it.

private fraser said:
This is a quote from the telegraph article.....

"It is both sad and shameful that when night falls and the setts of southern England stir their gentle folk will be needlessly slaughtered. That in spite of science and public will the wrath of ignorance will further bloody and bleed our countryside of its riches of life. That brutalist thugs, liars and frauds will destroy our wildlife and dishonour our nations reputation as conservationists and animal lovers,” he said.

Gentle folk...badgers ??...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/en...will-destroy-wildlife-says-Chris-Packham.html
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The above is a quote from the Chris Packham thread.

It really pains me that the bbc still employ this man even though he trots out his own personal views at every opportunity.
He is paid using our licence fee money.

If John Humphreys or any of the other BBC News team were to air their personal views on any news item they would be sacked on the spot.


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