[Huggy]

Just letting there where they fall. The Bald eagles around here do a good job of clean up. In a day or two all there is left is some fur.

Now that gentlemen, is a true patriot. (Old Glory waving in the backgroung)

 

[SteveD]

Huggy;
Yeah it's cool watching them soar around. It's good to see them having such a strong come back from beeing on the endangered list.

 

[waltham41]

find a 22lr is better for fur taking but not as fun.

Personally I have no problem with killing an animal if it needs to be done, but I do not get any enjoyment out of it.

Please remember that you are taking a living breathing animals life, and try not to find fun it doing it.

If it needs to be done, just do it and go on with life.

.

 

[Guest]

Being birds of prey, and not scavengers, I was under the impression that eagles only ate their own kills... You sure it's eagles and not buzzards?

 

[Decoligny]

Being birds of prey, and not scavengers, I was under the impression that eagles only ate their own kills... You sure it's eagles and not buzzards?

Eagles are opportunistic feeders, they will feed on the carrion from other predators kills. This was one reason Benjamin Franklin was opposed to the Bald Eagle as the national bird. He wanted the turkey as he thought it a nobler bird.

 

[robertgreen_86]

Are you eating the rabbits and selling the pelts or just letting them lay?

i eat them.....mix rabbit meat with squirrel and you got a darn good stew. Never sold the furs though.

 

[z71silverado98]

used to hunt the cotton tails w/ a .410 then id take 1 to school for lunch the following week. I got in trouble once cause they said eating rabbit was inhumane (city folk), cleared it up though since i argued it was legal game.

the jackrabbits were more rewarding though, my dad would give me $10 for every jackrabbit i brought him @ my grandfathers ranch.

there was one time my dad tried to take a jackrabbit w/ my 12ga. he missed the first 2 shots and the rabbit ran towards him and between his legs. The rabbit took off again and my dad missed his 3rd shot. the rabbit again came at him weaved between his legs then dissappeared in his hole less than 2' from where my dad was standing. it was classic.

 

[PrimalSeal]

LMAO!!!! Nothing like being megged by the target of your hunt.... LOL!

 

[Huggy]

Great story Silverado!
Good thing he didn't try to take that between-the-legs shot. :shock:

 

[SHOOTER Z]

I went rabbit hunting once in 1977 a guy I knew went out with me. He was beside me then he stopped for some reason I didn't notice as I was looking in the brush [I know stupid of me]. A rabbit jumped out and was running in front of me I raised my shotgun and waited for it to move away a little bit more so all the shot would spread a bit when I heard a boom BEHIND me. the fool fire his shotgun between my legs and hit the rabbit ... and the rabbit exploded. Seems he had 00buckshot in it and not bird shot. I was lucky all I had wad a single hole in the inside of my pants leg. I told him to go on ahead and let him move on about 50 yrds and I turned around and left the area.

 

[Decoligny]

I went rabbit hunting once in 1977 a guy I knew went out with me. He was beside me then he stopped for some reason I didn't notice as I was looking in the brush [I know stupid of me]. A rabbit jumped out and was running in front of me I raised my shotgun and waited for it to move away a little bit more so all the shot would spread a bit when I heard a boom BEHIND me. the fool fire his shotgun between my legs and hit the rabbit ... and the rabbit exploded. Seems he had 00buckshot in it and not bird shot. I was lucky all I had wad a single hole in the inside of my pants leg. I told him to go on ahead and let him move on about 50 yrds and I turned around and left the area.

He would have had a nice little pattern permanently imprinted on his forehead from the butt of the shotgun if it were me.

A guy I work with had something similar happen to him when he was about 17, except it was birdshot and his entire left leg from the knee down got peppered. Ruined his brand new pair of boots too.

 

[Huggy]

Dang Shooter z! That's pretty close to the tale of why I don't hunt with the old man anymore. I was 17, so it was about 10 years ago. We were out for White tail, and I had gone ahead to try to flank a nice sized sixer and push him back into the clearing. Well, I guess something spooked that buck from the other direction, and he bolts back across the clearing towards us. At this point the old man and I are maybe 80yds apart, and I can see him shouldering his rifle, and trying to lead the buck, which is going to split us. :shock: I start waving and yelling, and he didn't come off the buck, so I hit the dirt. I guess he didn't see me because he took a shot... and missed(I had told him to lose that POS scope). We always carried a whistle in the event that someone gets lost or hurt, so I started blowing that to get his attention since the don't-shoot-I'm-right-here dance didn't work. :x After thoroughly cussing him out, and wanting to give him a solid stock thumping, I ended up carrying both rifles back to camp, with him in front for good measure. Never again.

 

[Krippp]

sounds like there are a lot of "dick Cheneys" out there

 

[waltham41]

I was 13 - 14 yrs old back when I used to rabbit hunt, and still have the .410 Winchester pump that I used when I went

Happy to say that I had no close calls like some of you guys were unfortunate enough to have.

 

[Guest]

Well one thing Rabbit hunting will teach you is to stay online! We hunt them with the 12g shotty here. To much shail rock to do much else.

 

[cobraman]

Rabbit hunting. When and where ? I love it. When in California the desert near California City was a great place to shoot and hunt for rabbits. There were some hilly terrain which was good for surveying the area forever. My brother in law and I would shoot jacks from these hills at 200 to 300 plus yards. Him with a .270 and me with a .243. This can really sharpen up your shooting skills and over the years we made some of those once in a life time shots. We left them where they lied for the fox and crows and coyotes. Now in Arizona I have yet to find this type of hunting.

 

[robertgreen_86]

I genrally use my 22 for rabbit hunting however i have used a 410 from time to time

 

[PrimalSeal]

Dude, come to New Mexico... All the Jack's you can put a bullet in.... :roll:

I think this weekend I will be going hunting.. Dec 1 the Dove season opens back up, and I think also Quail is in seaon now too... I have 400 rounds of 7 1/2 shot in the closet that I should really burn up too... Plus I have that new Mossy Maverick I got for $50.00 to break in, as I haven't shot it since I got it....

Well, the wife is gonna be mad, I'm goin' huntin', be back for fishin' season!

 

[rockcrawlerdude916]

My dad has a ranch in southen california where he grows hay I totally understand what your saying. Every time Im there I walk around with my .410 and my 10/22 and for the more long range shots I use my dads 22-250. Those little buggers tear up crops like no tomorrow. They reproduce so quick. So in short no I don't think that its wrong. The coyotes always come and clean up the dead bunnys. From time to time I will save a pelt. One summer when I was 14 a friend of my dad's payed my $1.00 per tail of the ground squirl that I killed I didn't do bad I used my 10/22. Little pests like that I dont see it as wrong when its affecting crops that people grow to make a living.

 

[Kelotravolski]

so question; if the rabbit is on your property do you need a small game license to shoot it? or can you just kill it dead because it is on your land?