Rabbit stories

[Thenewguy]

I would love to hear some Rabbit hunting stories and/or tricks. anyone have some?

[saylean]

My first rabbit, I was coming home from Sunday Lake on my bike, (I was like 11) and a red tailed hawk had killed one in the road...I scared him off and took the rabbit...

[BC CHASER]

A 300 ultra mag makes hamburger out of them!

[demontang]

Last year will deer hunting I shot a rabbit at 100yd with my s&w 629 44mag, I never would have though that shot was doable . I think that I was standing there with my jaw on the ground for about 5 min.

[Bscman]

First rabbit kill I ever saw was when I was 7yrs old.

My dad plugged it from ~20yds with is long bow....right through the stomach, pinning the rabbit to the dirt hillside. I couldn't stop laughing as it did the "loop-de-doop" around the arrow shaft for about 10 seconds before expiring.

[saylean]

My mom had a rabbit eating her garden, so I woke up early (when I was like 13) and looked out the window...sure enough...there is the rabbit eating the garden. My friend was over, sleeping on the floor infront of the window...I grab my pellet gun and have to stand over my buddy who is sleeping on the floor...

unfortunetly for him, I was just wearing my underwear, so he woke up to quite the site as I was standing over him, aiming my pellet gun out the window.

I shot the rabbit in the eye, skinned it and ate it. We still laugh about that.

[Big Jim Jr]

Me and a couple friends hunting rabbits. I decide to use my pistol on one. A little piece of crap .380. First shot, miss just right, rabbit runs left, 2nd shot miss just left, rabbit turns around, 3rd shot miss just right, rabbit spins again, 4th just left, spin, 5th just right, spin, 6th just left, spin, 7th just right, spin, click, empty, BOOM, friend rolls rabbit ten feet with a 12ga. Way too funny. All of us just cracking up. Poor bunny didn't know what was going on with the ground exploding in front of it seven times.

[addicted]

i was out elk hunting and i had one that was turning white bust out from under my foot and scare the crap outta me. he ran about 15 feet stopped turned and i tried to put my 300winmag(180grn nosler balistic tip) on his head but i just kinda sprayed him all over the bushes.   

[300rum]

We used to run rabbits with Beagles.  In one particular location when we would let the dogs go they would jump this one rabbit in the same spot every time and the rabbit would make a beeline for a hole about a 1/2 mile away and would always get away.  We started to get wise to the rabbit by the 3rd time that this had happened.  On the 4th try I got set up in a spot where I could see the hole and we let the dogs go.  I could hear the dogs start to bawl as they jumped the rabbit and started to head my way.     A few minutes latter here comes the rabbit, I shot and missed just back of that cottontail and knew I had him for the second shot but when I pulled the trigger nothing happened.  The spring in the forearm of my 1100 broke and it wouldn't eject or load the next shell.    

We never got that rabbit.

It was the only time my 1100 had let me down in thousands of shots and hundreds of game.     That bunny was special and I will never forget him, I am kind of glad that we never got him.

[AWS]

Growing up my dad would give me a nickle a rabbit to buy shells with.  They kept a bowl full of 22 shells on the counter at the hardware store and they were a penny each.  When we ran out of shells we would hunt them with a stick about 2' long.  When there was a good crust on the snow you could throw it side arm and it would spin accross the snow and take the legs out from under a rabbit.  The other way was right after a snow storm the temp would usually drop into the minus number and we would track a rabit till they would burrow into the snow to keep warm and then dive on top of the snow and trap them under us and then dig them out. Our best day my cousin and I caught 7 rabbits in 2 hours.  We also ran box traps and snares for them.  This was back in Wisc.

AWS