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Rabbit techniques
MattE:
Jamie, I found out the same as you that broad heads arn't good for rabbits. I remember shooting one rabbit with a broadhead that ran 20 yards and the arrow entered just behind the rear leg and exited in front of the opposite front leg.I can't for the life of me see how that rabbit could even move, much less run 20 yards.
I have shot many a rabbit with a shotgun and they seem to fall at the sound of the gun. Some of them look like they wern't even hit but cutting them up with a broadhead seems to energize them for a few minutes. :)
SteveO:
I've found judos work really well for rabbits but I have trouble getting them through the surroundings to the rabbit. Seems one prong always catches on something in between. I make my rabbit arrows from .38 cases with a finish nail bent back to make a barb. I de-cap the cases and then drill a hole through the case for the nail. I grind a notch on the nail near the center, then insert it into the hole, put the case and nail on my powder scale and add lead shot until it all weighs 125 grains. When I stand the case on a metal surface and hit it with a propane torch, the lead melts, flowing into the primer pocket and solidifying around the notch in the nail shank, keeping it from pulling out. I just center punch them at three or so places to hold them onto the shaft. After it's cool I bend the nail back for barbs.
They hit a little harder than straight blunts and will usually stay in a rabbit, hanging up on everything he's trying to run through, slowing him down until he cashes in. Of course, as already said, a hit in the head or shoulders kills hit right there.They usually will bend and/or come off with a hard surface hit without breaking the shaft. A new one just slips on and you're good to go.
I get most of my rabbits along the tracks, shooting downward. If I can get another hunter to go along, we can leapfrog along, one going quietly down the center of the rails a hundred yards or so and taking up a stand, then the second one busting through the brush along the right of way pushing rabbits to the first guy. I have had quite a bit of success like that, usually getting lots of shots. If I had some beagles, I think they would be perfect for bowhunting rabbits in thick stuff where the rabbit moves ahead of the dogs at a pace slower than over open ground.
Steve.
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jamie:
oooooooooh i like
Justin Snyder:
My rabbit technique is to go out the back door before daylight, sneak along the block wall out into the street without the neighbors seeing me. Sneak the 50 yards to the dumpster at the park. Now the hard part is over. Now I just need to lean around the dumpster and make the 10 yard shot and kill the bunnies that have come out of the river bottom to eat the grass. Oh and then sneak back to the house with my prize before the neighbors see me. ;D Justin
Coo-wah-chobee:
Surburan huntin'-huh?
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