Thread: bunny huntin with a hand gun

Originally Posted by MickR

Actually I think it is the prefered tool for the job over there. Certainly be the safest tool for the job.


Mick

Not much safer! A subsonic .22 round comes out of the barrel at aroudn 1000-1100 FPS. When I was younger, I had an air rifle that hurled those pellets at 1200 FPS.

my air rifle shoots 1100fps. will go through a tree rat head at 20yds

Safer with regards to the distance that the round will travel before dropping to earth.
An air rifle doesn't have the same range as a .22. Power and velocity are one thing, range is another. You don't have to worry about the projectile from an air rifle killing your neighbour a mile down the road.


Mick

I have a .40 cal Lancaster flinlock rifle that is death on bunnies, head shot out to 70 odd yds, tends to tear them up iffen you hit them elsewhere !! Did get one with a colt navy at 40 yds, impressed hell out of the jackaroos, coolly reholstered it and said nothing. Thank heavens no more bunnies about, to prove it was not a fluke shot !! off course it wasn't !!!!

Cheers

like to see that shootin. nothing easy about a flintlock. good shot.

An old boss of mine I had in WA tried to shoot a poor old myxo bunny from about 10 foot away with my .357 lever action. That rabbit was as blind as a bat and kept running in circles around a bit of saltbush. After my boss fired and missed for the fifth time I took the rifle off him, cranked a round in, fired from the hip and shot that wagon circling bunny right between the eyes. It looked like he had been sliced straight down his length and opened like a book with his inards in a line for a few feet behind him. My boss was in a state of shock and started retching.
Same rifle on another days hunt I spotted a bunny prop his head up between a low fork of a young gum tree about 30 metres away. I took the shot and saw him drop out of sight behind the tree. When I got over there, that bunny was dead I saw the bullet had just scarred the length of that tree fork, but there was not a single mark on that rabbit. No holes, blood, nothing. The dogs didn't care, they ate roast rabbit that day.


Mick

Originally Posted by Magpie

Or is it that the only weapon left that you are allowed to own is the air rifle?

You need a licence for high powered air rifles (over 12 ft/lbs muzzle energy),rimfire and centrefire rifles in the UK. Many of us have and use all types.

There does seem to be a lot of incorrect information about what it is possible to own in the UK firearms-wise.

Originally Posted by heelerau

...coolly reholstered it and said nothing. Thank heavens no more bunnies about, to prove it was not a fluke shot !! off course it wasn't !!!!

Cheers

LOL, It's always important to stay cool after making an amazing shot. You don't want people thinking that you're just as amazed as they are.

Last week there was an injured skunk laying in my driveway. I guess the resident bobcat had went after him. The poor skunk was partialy disemboweled. The wife had to leave for work so she just straddled him with the car. Even in his weaked state he still managed to twitch his butt around and spray her car underside. LOL.
I could not shot him with the 22.
Took my grandsons cold steel blow gun and put 2 darts in his chest from 20 feet away. These steel darts have amazing penatration.

Yesterday I was grilling out and looked over to see my 2 cats had a very large fat mouse between them playing with it. The problem is they play around with them and let them escape. Like the one that got away and ran up my leg.
Went and got the blow gun and dispatched the pest with one dart.

Kind of fun playing around with this thing. Going to order some broad head darts and try them out. The knifecenter.com sells them at a resonable price. They also make a good hiking staff.


Silver2

anyone try ferrets?

YouTube - Gordon Ramsay Ferreting