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Cottontails, Model 42 Skeet and a 1937 Model 121 Fieldmaster Jacks, AR15, Marlin Lever in .357magnum/38 special and anyone of about a dozen .22 semi-autos.
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I've shot 100's of rabbits for the last 30 years with just about every gauge and shot size there is, but here are my favorites.
Cottontails, Browning Citori, 20 gauge shooting high brass 1oz, 7 1/2. This load will bust brush but won't break their little bones all up. Killed lots of them with 11/16 oz 3" 7 1/2's in .410 also.
Snowshoe hairs, Browning Citori 20 gauge, high brass 1 oz loads of 6's or 5's. Shot a good many with an old Ithaca model 37 16 gauge shooting 1 1/8 oz loads of 6's too. Can't go wrong with either.
12 gauge kills rabbits right dead, but just ruins too many of them if you have any intention of eating them. JMO
I've always hunted over dogs with anywhere from 2-6 hunters. We just don't allow any rifle hunters in our party as it is just too dangerous. When you have 5 or 6 guys running around trying to get ahead of the dogs and the rabbits, it can be hard to keep track of everybody. I'm sure it has it's place when you are slipping around by yourself.
"You cannot invade mainland America. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass" ~Admiral Yamamoto~
When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty. ~Thomas Jefferson~
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I am currently using a 62 cal(20 gauge) New England Fowler. It has taught me HUMILITY!! Absolutely ANY shooting error that a cartridge gun forgives,a flintlock makes worse. I gotta work on my follow through!!! Blew a few shots as a result but damn this thing is FUN!! 7/8 oz of 7 1/2(all I have available for now) over a powder card and cushion wad topped by over shot wad. Actually shoots pretty well when I manage to do it right!!
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Be afraid,be VERY VERY afraid ad triarios redisse My Buddy eh76 speaks authentic Frontier Gibberish!
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Sweeet ET.... Ingwe
"...the left considers you vermin, and they'll kill you given the chance..." Bristoe
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My favorite gun changes with the conditions. Empty freezer, I like to use my 28 ga. sxs. When the freezer has a few bunnies in it I switch to hand guns. I use a Judge with 410 shot shells when the snow is deep and I expect to be jump shooting, When the rabbits can stay on top of the snow I use a Browning Buckmark with iron sights ( lots of shooting not much killing )
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I am currently using a 62 cal(20 gauge) New England Fowler. It has taught me HUMILITY!! Absolutely ANY shooting error that a cartridge gun forgives,a flintlock makes worse. I gotta work on my follow through!!! Blew a few shots as a result but damn this thing is FUN!! 7/8 oz of 7 1/2(all I have available for now) over a powder card and cushion wad topped by over shot wad. Actually shoots pretty well when I manage to do it right!! Very nice!!!!! I cheat a little bit and use caps. This one's just a TC NewEnglander 12ga that I stripped all the blueing from and then I Browned it.
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Last edited by EvilTwin; 02/15/10.
Be afraid,be VERY VERY afraid ad triarios redisse My Buddy eh76 speaks authentic Frontier Gibberish!
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Sako Quad in 17HMR! nails them real good with leupold VXIII 4-14x40 LR on top.
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Have No Regrets
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870 express mag in 20 ga with 1oz of #8 shot works for me, have shot a few with 165 gr BTSP's out of a 308 at 40 yards on lousy deer days which cleans head right off. I recommend a head shot, shotgun, handgun or rifle.
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Last year was a Spanish 28 gauge side by side, next year it will be a Fox Sterlingworth in 16 Gauge.
"Somehow, the sound of a shotgun tends to cheer one up" -- Robert Ruark
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Mossberg 500 or Ruger 10/22. _________________________
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12 gauge with 5s or a 581 with a 3x9EFR. Love that fried rabbit.
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i've killed a few slinging ball bearings from a home made [bleep] shooter
God bless Texas----------------------- Old 300 I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull Its not how you pick the booger.. but where you put it !! Roger V Hunter
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"To the contrary, we hunt not to kill. We kill to have hunted." Thanks Jose & JB "I wouldn't venture out there fellas. This snipers got talent." " I've got a shotgun, a rifle, and a four wheel drive and a country boy can survive"
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Twenty gauge for flushing 'em or with dogs. Scoped 10/22 or iron sighted Remington 510 for stalking. Vintage Marlin 39A works like a champ too.
"To the contrary, we hunt not to kill. We kill to have hunted." Thanks Jose & JB "I wouldn't venture out there fellas. This snipers got talent." " I've got a shotgun, a rifle, and a four wheel drive and a country boy can survive"
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Colter, all 100 pounds of solid muscle rabbit hound that he is, who pulls extra duty with pheasants, ducks, geese and pretty much anything else that moves. Don't need a gun if he can catch em, but otherwise I use a 28 gauge when I actually want to kill one. His only jackrabbit catch(cottontails in cover are no sweat for him) with my buddy while we were out pheasant hunting:
"For some unfortunates, poisoned by city sidewalks ... the horn of the hunter never winds at all" Robert Ruark, The Horn of the Hunter
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It is what it is/ Goooo Gators
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Ithaca/SKB 20 gauge & #5 shot
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When i used to keep Beagles and Rabbit hunted every free min i had i used a Browning Auto-5 20 GA with IC and killed hundreds of rabbit with this shotgun and Number 6 or 7 shot size in my own Hand-load. Couldn't afford factory shells in those days
A Doe walks out of the woods today and says, that is the last time I'm going to do that for Two Bucks.
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