Stupid Rabbits

[Love Life]

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[2ndAmendmentNut]

I am going to go with #5.

[Mk42gunner]

Better to miss a rabbit at ten feet than something large and dangerous at ten feet.

This is a new to you revolver, so quite obviously you haven't shot all the misses out of it yet.

Robert

[Hickory]

Don't forget the flinch factor.
I flinched one time back in 1967.

[TXGunNut]

Scope?

[Mumblypeg]

I'll go with #3. It's a hard shot with flashlight. I think the light beam changes the sight picture...

[emailed]

# 4 is the one less speed takes longer to leave the barrel gun recoil is higher when bullet exits and bunny gets ears pierced

[para45lda]

Was the miss low? I've done that on really close shots. At that range you could be one to two inches low. I didn't believe it till I actually put it on paper.

My mileage anyways.

Wes

[Crawdaddy]

It happens... I think I might have missed once! A long long time ago.

:)

[canyon-ghost]

3. I was holding a flashlight in the other hand


I've tried that, my grip is never right to hit anything.

[Dframe]

He may have been one of those genetically altered bunnies that can dodge an oncoming slug. ..................Just another possibility:veryconfu

[JDBrowning]

Buck fever!

[LAcaster]

None of the above, It was a wascually wabbit HHaa hha hhhaaa hha

[para45lda]

Rabbit fever then. :kidding:

Wes

[calkar]

What if you would have run across a threatening critter that decided to give you a taste? Id say you better practice close up as well as at a distance. I live in a crappy city with no leash law. I love to walk my dogs, but if they are jumped by some homies pit bull I practice at the range with my carry at all distances that I believe I may need to use it .

[shovel80]

Nothing you did wrong!...Just wasn't his time to go to the Happy Alfalfa Field in the Sky!

Terry ;-)

[Old Goat Keeper]

Hey we have armor plated deer that take a 458 WhizBang Magnum to kill so I guess those rabbits inherited some of that deer genetics and are armor plated now too! I DO know in my case it would be my old eyes.

T-o-m

[303Guy]

I've seen a hare duck. Not a hare-duck, a hare that ducked! I don't know if it saw the boolit exit the muzzle and ducked in time or it ducked at the wizz of the boolit over it's head. It was pretty impressive either way and the outcome was the same - heaps of micky taking on the shooter.:mrgreen:

[RugerFan]

3. I was holding a flashlight in the other hand


Really? You were hunting wabbits at night?

[308w]

Of course you could be like the feller who bragged about never missing and one day, while taking a shot at some ducks on the wing, they flew on untouched the shooter remarked, yall done witnessed a miracle, them dead ducks kept right on a flyin......

[a.squibload]

10 feet? Throw the flashlight.

Next time be vewwy vewwy qwiet...

[30hrrtt]

Think that was one smart rabbit. He probably knew if he'd of gone another 15 yards, you'da gottn him.

[waksupi]

Back in the good old days, where I grew up, we did a certain (ahem) amount of night time rabbit hunting. One of my buddy's had an old postal delivery truck. By coincidence, it fit perfectly on the rail road tracks.
In that area, there was only one train a week, a fact I was well aware of, as the tracks crossed one of our farms.
Anyway, it seems at various times, it would be found that there was this particular vehicle would be idling down the tracks, with a bunch of yahoos in the back drinking .89 cent six packs of Old Mill. We did shoot a few rabbits each night if we remembered to take a rifle, and always got a good ride. The drunk test was if the driver would stop on a trestle for people to get out and pee, and see if anyone fell into the creeks or river.
We also found the vehicle would go ahead perfectly fine, If you tried to back up, you better have at least a dozen people aboard to lift it back on the tracks, otherwise, you ain't going no where!

[RugerFan]

I never said I was hunting at night. I said I was holding a flashlight. :Fire:

Oh I'm not here to judge. :mrgreen:

[lead chucker]

Might have been Buck fever, Good thing it wasnt charging you.

[badbob454]

probably wanted his ears pierced and you did him a favor, he he .. at ten feet ...must have gone over his head .

[firefly1957]

One of the funniest looks I have ever seen was from a cottontail rabbit I had a good rest and fired a reduced load at it at 55 yds. The bullet cut a groove though its fur across its chest it just looked at me with this strange face like what was that for and hopped off before I could reload!

The gun was a Rossi single shot with a cheap but very clear 10-40X scope and the picture was very sharp. The load was a 55gr bullet swaged with a musket cap as a jacket and loaded to about 1750 f/s.

[MBTcustom]

Even though it was only 10 feet away, you were shooting one handed, and with a cumbersome flashlight you were trying to line up at the same time. Been there done that. The thing is, if you put up a target at 10 feet and proceeded to empty several cylinders into it at that distance, one handed, I would be surprized if you could lay them all in a one inch bull and never stray from it.
One thing about shooting critters at night with a flash light is that there eyes glow. It is very easy to allow yourself to focus too heavily on the eyes and allow that to be your target. With rabbits, the center of that eye is about .5 inch below the top of there scull so you have to force yourself to shoot for a tiny place between the ear and the eye to put you in a better place to get your group size over his brain area. That's broadside, If he's looking right at you, you find the triangle made by his eyes and his nose and shoot into it.
Sorry you missed but head shooting rabbits at night is challenging. Especially with a handgun. Usually, it takes some practice to get the hang of it.
Sounds like fun though, go back out and seek thy revenge!
By the way, congrats on owning such a fine pistol, I hope to get one of those myself one day.

[firefly1957]

Love life no I am not familiar with the wizard mine is a break open with a very light barrel I have shot 3/4"2 100 YDS WITH IT BUT the barrel has to be supported just right every time.

[BOOM BOOM]

HI,
Did the rabbit laugh out loud????:grin:
:Fire::Fire::Fire:

[Moondawg]

You left out one of the most common reasons for a miss. Intermittent heavy gravity deflected my bullet. :Fire:

[shovel80]

Did lots of Spotlighting at night when I was younger!...jacks, coyotes....etc,
long as we didn't have a loaded gun in the jeep,,,it was cool!

Terry

[TXGunNut]

Matrix Rabbit strikes again!

[JayinAZ]

You should have brought the Holy Hand Grenade.

[Norbrat]

You missed due to the coriolis effect :mrgreen:



Did lots of Spotlighting at night when I was younger!...jacks, coyotes....etc,
long as we didn't have a loaded gun in the jeep,,,it was cool!

Terry

Most of the pest control shooting here in Oz is done at night with a spotlight. Even the pro roo and fox shooters do all their work at night.

Last time I was out we ended up with 35 rabbits, due to a population boom after the drought breaking rains we've had in the last 12 months.

And my hunting mate has FINALLY learned how to head shoot them, so they all ended up being "processed" and into the freezer they went.

Hmmm, rabbit stew!! :bigsmyl2:

"Underground mutton" kept a lot of families in meat during the great depression, at a time when almost every household in Oz would have had a "pea rifle" behind the laundry door, and the "Rabbitoh" streets sellers were selling bunnies for about 6d (a nickel) a pair.

Now wild rabbits are "gourmet" and are about $20 each from upmarket butchers! :roll:

[1Shirt]

I always consider a miss to be excuse 57B! Or maybe even 57C! Depends on time of day, in what country, and atmospheric conditions.
1Shirt!:coffeecom

[MT Chambers]

Did you even slow your car down first?

[popper]

If you shot high in Texas it would be a hit - they jump straight up when they hear the bang. They also duck, stand still, etc. I do believe they hear it coming and move if they can or need to. I shot at one with a pellet rifle, missed 3 times and it kept on grazing until the 4th - it flopped over DRT.

[BOOM BOOM]

HI
Once ,back in the day, My friend Wade & I were out spotlighting wrabbits.
We chased 1 down with his Subaru brat till it turned & held. Screech ,Stop, both doors open , we both fired 6 rounds from our S&W K-22's as the Bull wrabbat charged us. Lucky for us it targeted the car,hit the hood, then roof & then was gone into the night.

It took 12 rounds ( perhaps we both missed completely) tough little bunny.:Fire::Fire:

[starmac]

Love life, I see where arizona is allowing calling lions at night in some areas now, that would be fun.

[rockrat]

It was a Haint(sp?). You just thought it was a rabbit!!

(Story told to me long ago about rabbit hunting and Haints (ghosts))

[Hickory]

Love life, I see where arizona is allowing calling lions at night in some areas now, that would be fun.

Why not make it exciting as well, wear a blindfold.:kidding: