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Rabbit techniques
billy:
I've only killed 2 rabbits (one cottontail, and one jackrabbit). But both were taken with stone points. The first was the jackrabbit, and I shot it at about 12 feet with a small, mini-clovis shaped arrowhead. It went through the chest, sliced the side of its heart, and knocked it over. The rabbit squealed, kicked, then righted itself and ran in a large half circle. I waited about a minute, then followed the blood trail (yeah, that's right..the blood trail!). As soon as the blood trail started to dwindle, I looked up and there was my jackrabbit, laying dead behind a sage bush.
The second rabbit was taken at about 12 yards with a point made from the bottom of a beer bottle. I missed the first shot and the rabbit ran under a juniper tree. I threaded the second arrow right through all the branches, hitting the rabbit in the lower back on the right side. The point came out right behind its left shoulder. I ran up to the tree and that rabbit wasn't going anywhere...he just kicked a few times, then quickly died.
I did shoot a cottontail with a blunt, but hit it in the guts....it ran with the arrow hanging out of it and disappeared into some rocks. I never found that rabbit. I also shot a small cottontail with a stone-tipped rivercane arrow this summer, but I also hit that rabbit in the guts. That arrow zipped right through the rabbit, and he ran off into the brush and I never found him either.
So I think its about shot placement...the ones I've shot with stone points, as long as they have been in the vitals, are very quickly fatal.
Titan_Bow:
It depends on your local terrain I guess, but heres what works for us out on the eastern plains of Colorado. We will slowly stalk through the yukka and sage, and you will usually jump them up. I look for draws, depressions, any slight terrain feature that might afford some protection from the elements. Out here in the open terrain, once you jump a cottontail, he'll usually run, but usually not more than a 100 yards or so. Then you can pinpoint exactly where they stopped, and make your stalk from there. This usually works well, and I've noticed that the closer to dark (either early morning or late evening), the less distance the rabbits tend to run once you jump 'em up.
On points, I have found that the regular steel blunts tend to work best on cottontails, and broadheads on jackrabbits. I would not recommend using judos unless you are sure you are going to make head shots. If you hit them anywhere in the body, I find that the judo spring arms drag fur and dirt into the would channel, making it almost impossible to completely clean, and I usually have to just cut around the judo wound, wasting meat. The regular steel blunt does not drag fur and dirt into the wound, and if you happen to hit one in the hind quarter, you dont waste meat, because you can clean the wound channel out without wasting the whole hind quarter.
Coo-wah-chobee:
Wow_nice bunch of Hossenpfeiffer !-bob
Dustybaer:
bob, please don't take this wrong, but you gave me a good chuckle this morning. the dish you're referring to is "Hasenpfeffer", consisting of the words Hase = rabbit or hare and Pfeffer = pepper. However, Hose = pants and Pfeiffer = whistler, so you may have called them pants-whistlers, which reminded me of a body function, the bunnies may perform when they see a primitive archer approaching ;D
Coo-wah-chobee:
Ha-ha-ha- i was wondering if you would pick up on it ?hhh-bob
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