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Other Hunting => Coyote, Small Game, Varmints => Topic started by: tlbradford on June 13, 2008, 10:26:26 AM

Title: Kill the Wabbit, Kill the Wabbit
Post by: tlbradford 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.

(https://hunting-washington.com/cpg/albums/userpics/10323/IMG_9434.JPG)
Title: Re: Kill the Wabbit, Kill the Wabbit
Post by: Curly 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.
Title: Re: Kill the Wabbit, Kill the Wabbit
Post by: tlbradford 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.
Title: Re: Kill the Wabbit, Kill the Wabbit
Post by: saylean 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.
Title: Re: Kill the Wabbit, Kill the Wabbit
Post by: Jackjr on June 15, 2008, 11:14:42 AM: Nice shot :IBCOOL:
Title: Re: Kill the Wabbit, Kill the Wabbit
Post by: MountainWalk on June 15, 2008, 12:49:42 PM: saylean,, i would say you are right about the spots on the liver.
Title: Re: Kill the Wabbit, Kill the Wabbit
Post by: WDFW Hates ME!!! 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...
Title: Re: Kill the Wabbit, Kill the Wabbit
Post by: tlbradford on June 15, 2008, 03:45:44 PM: Quote from: WDFW Hates ME!!! 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...

That is what I was taught as well.
Title: Re: Kill the Wabbit, Kill the Wabbit
Post by: boneaddict 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.
Title: Re: Kill the Wabbit, Kill the Wabbit
Post by: Ray 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.
Title: Re: Kill the Wabbit, Kill the Wabbit
Post by: billythekidrock on June 15, 2008, 07:17:32 PM: Quote
plant eating vermin

+1

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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:
Title: Re: Kill the Wabbit, Kill the Wabbit
Post by: tlbradford 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.
Title: Re: Kill the Wabbit, Kill the Wabbit
Post by: addicted 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:
Title: Re: Kill the Wabbit, Kill the Wabbit
Post by: tlbradford on June 16, 2008, 09:05:15 AM: Ok I did some research of what I saw many years ago, and it appears they were tapeworm cysts. Apparantly, it is ok to eat when cooked, but maybe it is just me, but I'll pass.

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Bottom of the page. is the info and link to picture.
Title: Re: Kill the Wabbit, Kill the Wabbit
Post by: littletoes 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....?
Title: Re: Kill the Wabbit, Kill the Wabbit
Post by: huntingbg on July 16, 2008, 01:15:25 AM: Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't rabbit season start in September, or is it open year around. I thought the pamphlet says it starts in September? I saw a bunch a couple a weeks ago on a scouting trip.
Title: Re: Kill the Wabbit, Kill the Wabbit
Post by: ICEMAN on July 16, 2008, 01:38:28 AM: Tell me where the rabbits are, and I will provide you with a stack of regulation manuals! :chuckle:
Title: Re: Kill the Wabbit, Kill the Wabbit
Post by: bearmanric on July 16, 2008, 09:40:15 AM: :bdid:
Title: Re: Kill the Wabbit, Kill the Wabbit
Post by: billythekidrock on July 16, 2008, 04:25:31 PM: Quote from: huntingbg on July 16, 2008, 01:15:25 AM
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't rabbit season start in September, or is it open year around. I thought the pamphlet says it starts in September? I saw a bunch a couple a weeks ago on a scouting trip.

Should be open year round for depredation and damage control.