Killed A Rabbit Today
24 January 2006, 06:11 PM
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Killed A Rabbit Today
Took a day off to do some fencing at home and I was just banging some nails into a post when a rabbit lollops up the road not 3m from me. Rabbits aren't my favourite animals but they don't normally hang around to get things thrown at them.
I followed it and got to within "striking distance" with my hammer, so it was obviously not a well bunny. Looked closely and could see that it had myxomatosis one of it's eyes was pussed up and the other red and rheumy.
Decided against bashing it on the head with the hammer, so went and got my air-rifle and shot it cleanly through the head.
Not seen myxie for many years but hopefully it'll keep some of the local rabbit population down. Don't like seeing them moving around blindly though
I followed it and got to within "striking distance" with my hammer, so it was obviously not a well bunny. Looked closely and could see that it had myxomatosis one of it's eyes was pussed up and the other red and rheumy.
Decided against bashing it on the head with the hammer, so went and got my air-rifle and shot it cleanly through the head.
Not seen myxie for many years but hopefully it'll keep some of the local rabbit population down. Don't like seeing them moving around blindly though
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24 January 2006, 08:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Thomas Wainwright
Interesting you didn't use the hammer.
I remember my father using a shovel once. Job done.
I remember my father using a shovel once. Job done.
.22 through the side of the head from 10 ft = 100%
24 January 2006, 08:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Puff The Magic Wagon!
.22 through the side of the head from 10 ft = 100%
24 January 2006, 08:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Puff The Magic Wagon!
TBH I thought about it and took a half-hearted swing but I wanted to kill it 100% first time without it being afraid & wasn't sure the hammer would do the job or the little bugger would stay still long enough for me to do it. Other options included picking it up by its hind legs and doing it or rabbit punching it but again thought about it's fear so wimped out.
.22 through the side of the head from 10 ft = 100%
.22 through the side of the head from 10 ft = 100%
I have used the shotgun before for the job and did that at point blank range. Just to make sure.
24 January 2006, 08:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Thomas Wainwright
I have used the shotgun before for the job and did that at point blank range. Just to make sure.
Heroic.
24 January 2006, 08:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Bubba po
Yeah. I'd be terrified of it getting up and biting me with anything less, too.
Heroic.
Heroic.
I've seen Monty Python and the Holy Grail and the killer rabbit there had a profound effect on me.
24 January 2006, 10:15 PM
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Its a disease thats rife in Kent each year unfortunately, seeing rabbits sitting in the middle of the road blind deaf and puss dripping off their faces is not a pleasant site. Try and hit them with the car when I ever I see them to put them out of a very painful and slow death. If you go within 10 metres of an animal suffering with this you can carry the disease on your clothes and spread it so best not to get close to them. Surprised you saw a rabbit diseased this time of year, it doesn't normally kick off until spring time and then fall away by autumn.
Have to have our 3 pet rabbits innoculated each year to protect from this as its so common in the south east.
Have to have our 3 pet rabbits innoculated each year to protect from this as its so common in the south east.
24 January 2006, 10:23 PM
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LOL no, although accidentally hit one years ago when on the back of a mates bike - he weighed about 20 stone, me 14 stone and the weight of the bike, we stopped looked back and it was flat as a pancake star shaped in the middle of the road
Might try doing a burnout on one next time I see one though
Might try doing a burnout on one next time I see one though
24 January 2006, 10:32 PM
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careful -you'll have the fluffy protection league on here. - I hit one on a 250 Virago once - feker must have grabbed hold of the chain on the way past, cos the side of the bike, boots and jeans were covered in blood and guts. The stuff on the engine was well cooked on by the time I got home. Didn't smell of burning flesh though - more like Sunday Roast
24 January 2006, 10:38 PM
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Originally Posted by davegtt
If you wanted a clean simple shot you should have used a 172 not a .22, blow the little buggers head right off
Then there's the mess.
24 January 2006, 11:08 PM
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I ran over a rabbit once when I was in an old Mini Clubman going down some back roads. Little sod took my front number plate off. Pretty nible things they are and I had to go up the grass verge to get it.
Pretty nible things they are and I had to go up the grass verge to get it.
24 January 2006, 11:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Puff The Magic Wagon!
Took a day off to do some fencing at home and I was just banging some nails into a post when a rabbit lollops up the road not 3m from me. Rabbits aren't my favourite animals but they don't normally hang around to get things thrown at them.
I followed it and got to within "striking distance" with my hammer, so it was obviously not a well bunny. Looked closely and could see that it had myxomatosis one of it's eyes was pussed up and the other red and rheumy.
Decided against bashing it on the head with the hammer, so went and got my air-rifle and shot it cleanly through the head.
Not seen myxie for many years but hopefully it'll keep some of the local rabbit population down. Don't like seeing them moving around blindly though
I followed it and got to within "striking distance" with my hammer, so it was obviously not a well bunny. Looked closely and could see that it had myxomatosis one of it's eyes was pussed up and the other red and rheumy.
Decided against bashing it on the head with the hammer, so went and got my air-rifle and shot it cleanly through the head.
Not seen myxie for many years but hopefully it'll keep some of the local rabbit population down. Don't like seeing them moving around blindly though
I could not have done it, being a soft cac, so the other half would have got the job. 
24 January 2006, 11:31 PM
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Originally Posted by 84of300
I think what you did was very brave and very humane I could not have done it, being a soft cac, so the other half would have got the job.
I could not have done it, being a soft cac, so the other half would have got the job. 
25 January 2006, 12:17 AM
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Originally Posted by 84of300
Yes, where animals are concerned Humans, no
Humans, no YHPM