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ballista:
i see, I heard .38 casings work well, but if the steel blunts work well, so be it. not a good day today, i had a bow i spent about 2 weeks on come out at 15 lbs..... pist, so i was shootin an osage bow of mine, and as I was drawing back, i heard a sharp crack, and the bow cracked a bit midlimb. I decided to make a howard hill style bow\, because of the simplicity of the design, and as i was cutting the padouk riser, twang!! the f'in bandsaw blade snaps, rattling around in the bandsaw. grin and bear it I guess :P I guess the reality ofrabbit hunting is you're going to loose alot of arrows, I thought the judo was the solution to that, but then i've heard that they get caught up in thick brush before they hit the targret, hard to say. thanks for the advise, do you think they like area near streams or not so much?
mullet:
Titan, I know what you mean about Judo's. The first two rabbits I shot with judo's I couldn't believe how much damage was done to the meat. I would have been better off using my 12 gauge.
JW_Halverson:
12 ga.??? Here, lemme loan you my side by side black powder caplock 10 ga. All kidding aside, the 10 guage actually is my first choice in rabbit gunning. Instead of the big turkey load of 100 grains of powder and 1.5 oz of #6 shot, I use just 40 grains of powder and a half ounce of #7 1/2. Shoots like a .410 for about a fourth the price. And if you leave the ramrod in the barrel by mistake it's called black powder archery!
ballista:
jw, thats a grat idea ;D id love to get a rabbit oneday and have a nicely finished hardwood ramrod buired in the hind leg, gnawed off or sumthing :)its not the primitive edge, but i fixed a big crack in an osage recurve with some good old gray ducttape, works like a charm now. 10 gauge??? haha, pretty much chicken nuggets afterwards, whatever keeps em out of the tomatoes though :D we got alot of rabbit a few years back via fixed broadheads and a compound, this was when primitive archery was still an idea in my mind- that put em out real fast, but the .22 was the real slayer. that caplock sounds like a beauty though man, my dad just got my grampa's (long past away) goose gun for a phesant hunt in iowa in a few weeks, its nice, but i've always wanted a double barrel, over and under or side by side. you hear of a kentucky rifle jw? there a single barrel, flintlock, about 6 foot long, used exclusivley by confederates, my grampa's used to have one but the insurane was so bad he gave it to a buddy who collects ww2 guns to hold fer a while. thanks for the replies guys, -jimmy
JW_Halverson:
The shotgun was built by Pedersoli in Italy, but my .50 cal flintlock Early Lancaster school with German Jaeger influence, swamped barrel, and wood patchbox, was built by yours truly. It was blackpowder guns that lead to my obsession with bows. Next step in my de-evolution as a hunter will be atlatls, then clubs, followed by throwing rocks, and finally following large predators and scavenging scraps. For that matter I may just grow a tail and head back up into the trees if I have time.
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