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General Discussion To Gateway To Airguns => Hunting Gate => : kiwi December 13, 2008, 09:17:22 AM
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I woke up at 5am "Thanks to the dam cat useing the bed as a trampoline"
Lay there for 30mins couldn't get back to sleep O well time for a coffee
that was it now wide awake and its 5:30 on a sunday.
Bugger I will just have to go for a bunny hunt. Sorted everything out
6am I was out the door heading for the Redwood pass.
Parked up at the bottom of a grassy gully.
Gun in hand ,1.77 preditors in my pocket and off over the fence.
It wasn't long till I spoted a fuffball hiding under a bush 20/25 m away
shouldered the Geox put the cross hears on his head POP a small jump
and a few kicks "Lights out."
Then I walked up the hill trying to say in the scrub after about 15/20 mins walking
I was almost back to where I started seen 6/8 bunnys but they were to far out
to take a shot. And then 20 metres away I seen the grass move so scaned
the area though the scope and spoted a pair of ears sticking up, aimed just below then
pulled the trigger nothing so I walked over to have a look and there was a small
bunny dead with a real surprised look on his face.
the preditor had hit him from behined in the neck and carried though to the brain area
Hell that pellet was carrying some energy as it had poped both of his eyes
right out of his head "Yer just got to love those preditors"
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WOW, Talk about Eye Popping Good...:) You would of thought he saw another female bunny in a bikini...hehehe Great shot bud and thanks for sharing.
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I'm really wanting one of those CFX copies.
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Great shooting and fine harvest Peter, pic's are great also.:) lol Gene , saw the other in a bikini or he caught a glimpse of the Predator right before it nailed him. Bunny activity has picked up around here at last, for the last three evening's they have started to come to my yard to snack on the fallen bird seed. I'm picking my moment lol lol lol lol. Ed
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Great shooting Peter! That's a good size bunny and the other is probably her offspring. Love those Popeye eyes from the predator damage :-) That's something you don't see every day. My first squirrel kill with the 350 .22 was pretty similar but it was 1 eye that was completely hanging out and almost gone. 2 eyes is much harder, hehehe.
Younger rabbits usually hang out close to their mama whether she 's dead or alive. They 're pretty much lost without her and easy to pick out. A couple of years ago myself and a couple of co-workers watched a red-tail hawk kill a rabbit about 25yds away from the main entrance of the building while we were outside having a smoke. I noticed it first (having the hunter's eye and all). The hawk was on a branch of an apple tree and I was like what is that hawk doing so close? I scanned the area for any prey, and after I saw nothing, I noticed right below the hawk, on the grass, there was a rabbit with her young not even 1/2 her size. The hawk just dropped down on the adult rabbit and sat on it and began killing it (rabbit was squealing loudly) and then eating it. The young rabbit was first running around the hawk in a 10-15ft radius all confused and then stopped no more than 20ft away and hung around for a very long time getting low in the grass, while the hawk was dining. It did not know what to do or where to go. The hawk looked at it a few times too like telling it you just wait until you put a little more weight on :-) Baby rabbits are conditioned to run along side or behind their mother and can usually be easy pickings if they 're alone.
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PETER tHATS 1 WIERD LOOKIN BUNNY!!!! Are ya sure ya didn't blow them out like that....
I really love your hunting grounds.. they are beautifulll
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Peter:
Eye popping shot, buddy. I guess it's a good thing you didn't shoot him in the a ss. Those grasslands look like a good place for snakes -- but I suppose that is more a problem on the Big Island than down south in NZ, right?
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Once a pellet like the Predator hit's and enters the fusebox the trauma to the brain causes the swelling of the eye's. love those Predator's.:) Ed
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Hotel Lima Sierra !!!
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No snakes in NZ. Think you are thinking Of Ozzie
NZ has 2 islands north & south I'm in the top
of the south island
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1 shot in a million every thing must have just been right
bunny size / strike angle / pellet type etc
It something you will never repeat in a life time.
Shear luck
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Nice shooting there Kiwi...bunnies in the tall grass..heh heh. I had heard that some other Kiwis got fed up with the rabbits and imported a little special treat for them from OZ...looks like you still have a good number of them around you...that's fine too, just keep taking them down one at a time. You put the pop in the rabbit population.
BTW, my brother lives in Dunedin. I've been over twice, beautiful country, great fishing too.
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See, aren't you glad the cat disturbed your sleep? We see you've zeroed in your Geox...Great shots on those bunnies, especially the one hiding behind the tall grass. I've read about eyes popping out after shot in the head....first time seeing it. Great hunting story and pics.
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Thanks guys..