Originally Posted by
MickR
I used to live on a property amd part of my duties was shooting rabbits for various reasons. being the sort of bloke I am I like to make clean kills, but this one day I was on my way back to the house (on foot) and I had a chance to take out another bunny. Normally they had all gone to ground by then. I lined him up and too the shot with my 12g, but as I did he took a couple of stepps out of the line of fire, and I only injured him. I racked the slide for a quick second shot, only to hear the 'dead mans click'. I took off after this rabbit who was going as fast as he could,screaming, as rannits do. As I ran I swapped the shotgun to my other hand and grabbed my knife. Just a cheap sheath knife. I threww this knife at the poor rabbit and ended up sticking him clean through the shoulder blades and pinned him to the ground. He was dead in his tracks. I couldn't believe it. It was sheer fluke, but it did the job.