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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.

That 5mm's bad medicine on those damned lettuce munchers. Good little gun. I love mine!

Same here, woodchucks too. Buggers are everywhere.

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...

elkhunternm has experience at exploding rabbits.

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.

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...

He uses a little peashooter.....

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.

Lots of them around here, too. Little desert cottontails, though, they don't eat much and aren't much to eat.

45/70 works on them too.

Wow. Instant rabbit stew!

That will do the job. The neighbors all want to borrow mine.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

I saw a cottontail explode when my brother shot it with his 8 X 57 Mauser.