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We've had an explosion of cottontail rabbits the past year or so. Now that we don't have a dog around, the little insolent bastids don't even run from you. They'll let you get 6ft. away before hopping a few times and going back to eating.
They're asking for a little 5mm Blue Streak action.
I'd normally not worry too much about them, but they got through my orchard fence and girdled some of my fruit trees.
Mark
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That 5mm's bad medicine on those damned lettuce munchers. Good little gun. I love mine!
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Same here, woodchucks too. Buggers are everywhere.
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They've exploded around here too! Hardy ever saw one around here but now they're everywhere! We've now got a lot more hawks around now feeding on them and the grey squirrels...
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elkhunternm has experience at exploding rabbits.
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Our local variety is much smaller than those you have in the east. They really aren't worth hunting. In the last couple weeks, our cat has managed to smuggle 3 dead ones into the house.
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Couple of weeks ago I watched one build her nest right in the middle of our back yard! We had to put our Shorthair down a few months ago, now the rabbits and squirrels have gotten brave. Well I've got some bad news for them, there's a new sheriff in town. You need one of these too Mark...
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elkhunternm has experience at exploding rabbits. He uses a little peashooter.....
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same here
they are everywhere. but I suspect by end of summer they will be thinned out quite well.
I don't mind them though, they can eat my grass as much as they want.
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Lots of them around here, too. Little desert cottontails, though, they don't eat much and aren't much to eat.
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45/70 works on them too.
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Wow. Instant rabbit stew!
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Couple of weeks ago I watched one build her nest right in the middle of our back yard! We had to put our Shorthair down a few months ago, now the rabbits and squirrels have gotten brave. Well I've got some bad news for them, there's a new sheriff in town. You need one of these too Mark... That will do the job. The neighbors all want to borrow mine.
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Our cat used to clean 'em out when they were little. Used to leave either a hind foot or the heart on the back step. He lived to be 20, slowed down, and a fox got him.
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We our first ever cottontail move in under my shed last summer, I didn't think it would survive the winter with the eagles, hawks, coyotes, etc. The little bugger did and we have a bunch more rabbits this summer. They don't bother much around here, at least a lot less than ground squirrels and deer.
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They explode every spring around here. Fall and winter they move into the thick stuff and make me work to put them in the freezer. Eastern cottontails are good eating!
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Couple of weeks ago I watched one build her nest right in the middle of our back yard! We had to put our Shorthair down a few months ago, now the rabbits and squirrels have gotten brave. Well I've got some bad news for them, there's a new sheriff in town. You need one of these too Mark... Oh Damn! Don't do that t ome Al! We are trying the dogless routine around here now that the daughter moved her dog to Milwaukee. A lot of travel is in the forecst for the next few years, so a dog is out. And I keep repeating it...I will not get a dog, I will not get a dog.... A friend of mine has a 12 wk. Weimaraner pup that I dare not look at. I'll be really scarce around his place till she has a new home.
Mark
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Why waste ammo? I've killed many cottontails using a wrist rocket and marbles.
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Why waste ammo? I've killed many cottontails using a wrist rocket and marbles. I don't own a wrist rocket. The 5mm Sheridan was my first firearm. Dad didn't believe in BB guns, so I got a Blue Streak for my 7th birthday.
Mark
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I saw a cottontail explode when my brother shot it with his 8 X 57 Mauser.
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