Just shot my first

[Wolf mom]

jack Rabbit right through the kitchen window (no screen). This is the first live thing I've ever shot and I'm still having mixed emotions about it - although she was eating my flowers. She just lay there with her little legs quivering. I hope it gets easier as there are many more rabbits around.

I used a 22 long and couldn't find any blood or hole. What gives?

[Smallhold]

Wolf mom, we butcher rabbits with bare hands on regular basis and it always remains a job with mixed feelings. Dont mind doing it, would just prefer not having to do the act so to speak.
Once confirmed dead it's a doddle to skin and clean. Just the actual snapping of the neck I always feel a bit guilty.

[EDDIE BUCK]

Sounds like you'er an expert shooter, to bark game on the first shot. I think Daniel Boone was good at barking game. To shoot so close to animals head, it dies without the bullet touching it. Dont ask me how, but it happens.

[danoon]

LoL.. we were building an addition onto a house out in the woods and had just put the windows in. We came back the next day and a window was blown out... the owner saw a 9 point buck outside and was afraid to open the window and scare it so he shot through the glass... He couldn't hear a thing for three days... but he got the buck.

[Bearfootfarm]

Originally Posted by danoon

LoL.. we were building an addition onto a house out in the woods and had just put the windows in. We came back the next day and a window was blown out... the owner saw a 9 point buck outside and was afraid to open the window and scare it so he shot through the glass... He couldn't hear a thing for three days... but he got the buck.

What an IDIOT! The only thing more STUPID than doing it was TELLING someone about it

[vicker]

Cut it into 6 pieces. 2 front leg quarters, two of the rear legs and cut the carcuss in half. Half cover with water, and simmer for a couple hours. Add potatos, carrots, onions and what not. Cook another hour and make bisquits.

[peter nap]

Good shot and make sure you eat it! Most really good hunters love the game more than the Tree Huggers do. I love hunting and have killed Deer, squirrels. Turkey and Grouse for 45 years. I have never enjoyed the kill though. There is a rush and a well done feeling but it still nags me that I just took the life of something I love.

I doubt that answers your question now but it will after a few more rabbits.

[RedneckPete]

I'm over feeling guilty about rabbits. I shoot them by the dozen and toss them to the dogs.

They destroy a garden in very short order, and don't seem bothered by an electric fence. They wait until the dogs fall asleep then raid the sprouting peas and beans.

Kill the suckers I say.

Pete

[EDDIE BUCK]

Dont worry about getting easier, it will, if looking at the damage to your flowers and veggies dont do it, the thinking about the aroma of them onions in that pot of rabbit stew, will.

[clamjane]

Bearfootfarm, you stole the words right out of my mouth. What an idiot.

[suburbanite]

Should it get easier?

[Turkeyfether]

No evidence of the shot is no surprise to me. In a human skull, a .22 bullet will enter, but not exit. The exit wound is always the BIG wound.Entry wounds often just close up & are camoflauged by fur,hair, etc.A .22 will richochet in a 'V' shape in a human skull (does much damage!)but not exit. But a little head, like a rabbit skull~~ I'd think maybe you grazed it enough to kill it, but not penetrate.

[ninny]

Originally Posted by Wolf mom

jack Rabbit right through the kitchen window (no screen). This is the first live thing I've ever shot and I'm still having mixed emotions about it - although she was eating my flowers. She just lay there with her little legs quivering. I hope it gets easier as there are many more rabbits around.

I used a 22 long and couldn't find any blood or hole. What gives?

That's strange, I've never seen a jack rabbit with a kitchen window. Guess I've been hunting in the wront place...


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[Tango]

That's quite disturbing. Why not a fence?

[suitcase_sally]

Here in Michigan it is against the law to shoot game from inside your house. Could cost you BIG time.

[Farmerwilly2]

Originally Posted by suburbanite

Should it get easier?

I'm not sure that it should get easier, but it does. My hope is it never becomes so easy that I don't have a small twinge. Maybe it's just me, but I hate the thought I might get so cold to it that I don't feel something.

[Paula]

Originally Posted by RedneckPete

I'm over feeling guilty about rabbits. I shoot them by the dozen and toss them to the dogs.

They destroy a garden in very short order, and don't seem bothered by an electric fence. They wait until the dogs fall asleep then raid the sprouting peas and beans.

Kill the suckers I say.

Pete

You're about like us. But we also look for nests in the spring and call the dogs.

I shot two swamp rabbits in my garden the other day. They're in my freezer now waiting for when my daughter and I can make stew out of them to finish up her Laura Ingalls Wilder badge for Girl Scouts.

I ignore the local rabbits when I can, but this pair was in the act of eating my second planting of sweet potatos after they'd eaten the first. I fenced the garden but have not yet put a sill under the gate which is how they got in. Tunnelled under.

If old Mr. McGregor had had a shotgun instead of a rake he'd have been able to put Peter in a pie too.

.....Alan.

[GREENCOUNTYPETE]

i use a pelet gun it you get them in the ear they will do a back flip for you

it should get easier for you

i started shooting rabit and squirl early enought that killing was never a problem i suppose it helps if everyone is excited when you do especialy deer

i cut the feet of with a pruning shears then cut them round the mid section with a knife and pull 2 peices of hide one over the head cut around the neck and twist cut the base of the tail and pull the hid over the legs but if you do them while still warm you are done in a minute.

i do squirl the same but i want to try this new way i saw where you stand on the tail after making a few cuts then pull and all the fur ends up over the head .

[big rockpile]

Use to kill them all the time here.But they are protected now.

big rockpile