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Kill the Wabbit, Kill the Wabbit
« on: June 13, 2008, 10:26:26 AM »
Michelle and Longtat were talking about rabbits in a seperate thread, so I thought I would post this, since nothing else is being killed right now.

I put the stalk on this guy when he was eating more of my plants.  He ran off the night before when I had my little girl with me, so she didn't get to hunt with me.  I spotted him in my front yard with a mouthful of grass, when I was pulling into the driveway.  I ducked into the garage, grabbed my old compound which is at the ready for yard hunts, and peaked around the corner.  After stealthily moving around the rabbit, so a miss or pass-through and bounce would only hit my house and not the neighbors, I let fly at about 6 yards.  I like the field points over judos or blunts because it pins them to the ground or keeps them from running as far.  This is desirable when living in a development.  I bent my arrow though on the rocks in the flower bed dang it.   :bash:  No I didn't eat it, but some scavenger will.  My new little Buck Whitaker folder, that I bought at Cabelas earlier that morning finished the job with a quick slice of the throat.  Not a bad little blade for $10.




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Re: Kill the Wabbit, Kill the Wabbit
« Reply #1 on: June 14, 2008, 12:20:52 PM »
Good job.

I've got 6 this spring w/ a 22 cal pellet gun.  They seem to like my yard; I think it is because the 5 ac is fenced and the coyotes don't come inside the fence.  The rabbits seem to think it is some sort of sancuary for them.  If the *censored*s would go into the two live traps I have set in the yard, I would take em for a ride and let them go; but they just won't go in the traps so I had to resort to killing the plant eating vermin.

I used to shoot them w/ a 22 rifle and CB long ammo, but my rifle just was't very accurate with the CB's.  My brother let me borrow his pellet gun and it works really good.  A pellet to the head kills them instantly.
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Re: Kill the Wabbit, Kill the Wabbit
« Reply #2 on: June 14, 2008, 02:34:34 PM »
I think the cottontails around here have a good chance of carrying some parasite during the summer months.  Don't quote me on that, I just remember hearing it somewhere.  Winter rabbits go into the stew pot.

Curly, I have been thinking about getting a nice pellet gun, but there are so many regular guns I still need first.
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Re: Kill the Wabbit, Kill the Wabbit
« Reply #3 on: June 15, 2008, 10:24:45 AM »
I think if their liver looks healthy, then they are ok to eat. If there are spots on the liver, then its no good....just something I was either taught or read...or made up... ;) Who knows anymore.

Anywho....rabbit stew sounds good to me.

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Re: Kill the Wabbit, Kill the Wabbit
« Reply #4 on: June 15, 2008, 11:14:42 AM »
Nice shot :IBCOOL:

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Re: Kill the Wabbit, Kill the Wabbit
« Reply #5 on: June 15, 2008, 12:49:42 PM »
saylean,, i would say you are right about the spots on the liver.
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Re: Kill the Wabbit, Kill the Wabbit
« Reply #6 on: June 15, 2008, 01:56:26 PM »
I was told to only eat rabbits in months that have an "R" in them, September-April...
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Re: Kill the Wabbit, Kill the Wabbit
« Reply #7 on: June 15, 2008, 03:45:44 PM »
I was told to only eat rabbits in months that have an "R" in them, September-April...

That is what I was taught as well.
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Re: Kill the Wabbit, Kill the Wabbit
« Reply #8 on: June 15, 2008, 06:38:57 PM »
probably due to Tuleremia or Rabbit Fever.  Most of the vectors probably die in the colder months.  A deadly bacterium often associated with rabbits.   Don't buy much into beware craze, or the latex glove craze, but sounds like a good enough reason for me not to eat a rabbit.  By the way, tuleremia has nothing to do with the rabbits liver.

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Re: Kill the Wabbit, Kill the Wabbit
« Reply #9 on: June 15, 2008, 06:57:39 PM »
damn rabbits are out of control over here too. I aint shootin em though. Don't want them to end up in someone's yard.

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Re: Kill the Wabbit, Kill the Wabbit
« Reply #10 on: June 15, 2008, 07:17:32 PM »
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I was told to only eat rabbits in months that have an "R" in them, September-April...

Same here...or was that Oysters? :chuckle:




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Re: Kill the Wabbit, Kill the Wabbit
« Reply #11 on: June 15, 2008, 09:27:08 PM »
I cut one open in August several years ago and it had little white, what looked like tiny tiny worms, all over the major organs.  I never found out what that was. 
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Re: Kill the Wabbit, Kill the Wabbit
« Reply #12 on: June 15, 2008, 09:52:44 PM »
didnt eat him?  skim em put him in a bag with beer of choice and some seasoning for the rest of the day and BBQ wrapped in aluminum foil  :drool:
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Re: Kill the Wabbit, Kill the Wabbit
« Reply #14 on: July 06, 2008, 09:47:15 PM »
22 shorts are as quiet as a pellet rifle, and will shoot out of most bolt action rifles. You can fire 'em in your back yard and nobody will be the wiser....uhhh hummmm...so I hear....  :rolleyes:

I've heard the liver-spot thing about deer liver....?
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