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Re: Rabbits
« Reply #25 on: January 07, 2017, 10:10:48 PM »
One thing that hasn't been divulged about using the .69, etc, balls for rabbits; they were fired a couple inches over or in front of the head.  What kills the bunnies is the sizzling wake from the balls passage near the skull.  A direct hit would kill the bunny, his relatives and a few others within a radius of about 100 yards.  It would be similar to the bite of the chubanga cobra.  If someone is bitten by this most venomous of snakes, it kills the victim, his hunting partners, kids he went to school with and old girlfriends he hasn't seen in decades.   ;D
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Re: Rabbits
« Reply #26 on: January 07, 2017, 10:23:57 PM »
Was Jim, mabe attacked in the peanut patch?
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Re: Rabbits
« Reply #27 on: January 07, 2017, 11:35:05 PM »
In the peanut patch?

Nope, it was a swamp rabbit and it attacked him while he was in a boat, " hissing menacingly, its teeth flashing and nostrils flared and making straight for the president," according to his press secretary's memoirs. There is a photo:http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=jimmy+carter+swamp+rabbit&view=detailv2&&id=A190A8432ACDB8FE99B2566BFD161D587649298A&selectedIndex=0&ccid=zFoqpZlK&simid=608038925129614925&thid=OIP.Mcc5a2aa5994aa0cb446ef3689277f180o0&ajaxhist=0

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Re: Rabbits
« Reply #28 on: January 08, 2017, 01:01:18 AM »
One thing that hasn't been divulged about using the .69, etc, balls for rabbits; they were fired a couple inches over or in front of the head.  What kills the bunnies is the sizzling wake from the balls passage near the skull.  A direct hit would kill the bunny, his relatives and a few others within a radius of about 100 yards.  It would be similar to the bite of the chubanga cobra.  If someone is bitten by this most venomous of snakes, it kills the victim, his hunting partners, kids he went to school with and old girlfriends he hasn't seen in decades.   ;D
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Re: Rabbits
« Reply #29 on: January 08, 2017, 01:02:33 AM »
 I put 7 rabbits in the freezer last year, using both my .36 flintlock long rifle, my .40 Lancaster style long rifle and a little .36 cal percussion Leman rifle. All in our 2 acre garden around the house and cottage. A couple even from my rocker on the back stoop !  I hunt rabbits mostly now, as they are easy to deal with, less work than kangaroos.  As a kid on a sheep station I even shot them with a 69 cal percussion musket, usually head or  chest shots out to 40 odd yards. It was a pat 1842 British musket, these actually have a crude rear sight and with a tight patched ball shoot surprisingly well.
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Re: Rabbits
« Reply #30 on: January 08, 2017, 01:38:13 AM »
When I lived on our left over farm in the middle of Davenport we had loads of rabbits. Now that I live way out there are few rabbits. We gota keep our coyotes and foxes feed on something you know.... ;)
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Re: Rabbits
« Reply #31 on: January 08, 2017, 08:53:47 PM »
When I lived on our left over farm in the middle of Davenport we had loads of rabbits. Now that I live way out there are few rabbits. We gota keep our coyotes and foxes feed on something you know.... ;)

Mike- doesn't your neighbour have chickens?
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Re: Rabbits
« Reply #32 on: January 08, 2017, 11:31:15 PM »
 
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I think someone has taken too many karate chops to the noggin'....... ;)
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Re: Rabbits
« Reply #33 on: January 09, 2017, 12:54:06 AM »
   Nordecker yes he did. Right after he saw the UFO or was that a UFB. Unidentified flying bunny.  We use a 4 bore up north cause there big an mean.  Oldtravler

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Re: Rabbits
« Reply #34 on: January 09, 2017, 01:01:35 AM »
When I lived on our left over farm in the middle of Davenport we had loads of rabbits. Now that I live way out there are few rabbits. We gota keep our coyotes and foxes feed on something you know.... ;)

Mike- doesn't your neighbour have chickens?
Yes he does as a matter of fact, as of the middle of Dec. 44,000 give or take a couple. The building they are in is built so tight not even a mouse is supposed to be able to get in. You gots to put on a paper suit and disinfect yourself to even get in there. The building is 600' long by 72' wide and two stories high, upper floor for the chickens and lower floor to catch all the crapola. Only cost $1.8 million. My flock had to go bye bye as they were a contamination risk. I got paid plenty to make them go away......
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Re: Rabbits
« Reply #35 on: January 09, 2017, 01:20:32 AM »
When I lived on our left over farm in the middle of Davenport we had loads of rabbits. Now that I live way out there are few rabbits. We gota keep our coyotes and foxes feed on something you know.... ;)

Mike- doesn't your neighbour have chickens?
Yes he does as a matter of fact, as of the middle of Dec. 44,000 give or take a couple. The building they are in is built so tight not even a mouse is supposed to be able to get in. You gots to put on a paper suit and disinfect yourself to even get in there. The building is 600' long by 72' wide and two stories high, upper floor for the chickens and lower floor to catch all the crapola. Only cost $1.8 million. My flock had to go bye bye as they were a contamination risk. I got paid plenty to make them go away......

My inlaws had a big chicken operation like that and they also had about 44,000
Of these critters. I asked my mother in law if they had all of them named and
she said they hadn't thought of it. Poor woman thought I was serious.
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Re: Rabbits
« Reply #36 on: January 09, 2017, 03:58:08 PM »
This big chicken house is fully automated. Feed goes in on belts and the eggs come out on belts. Water is piped in and and available from nipples that the birds learn to drink from. All the crapola falls through the mesh floor. The eggs all come together and are packed on flats with some sort of automated suction cup thingus. All you have to do is cull out the dirty/broke or double yolk eggs before they get to the packer. They all get trucked over to Wilton where the built a new  hatchery last year. I think they several million chicks a week. They have built 6 of these buildings in the area in the past few years. German owned company BTW.
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Re: Rabbits
« Reply #37 on: January 09, 2017, 09:33:07 PM »
Didn't Jimmy Carter get attacked by one of those Killer rabbits?

yes, it SWAM out and tried to board his canoe !! [ I would never have even admitted this happened. ]

as to eating, my favorite was when my grandmother made rabbit and dumplings !

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« Reply #38 on: January 10, 2017, 03:00:06 AM »
A bunny stew with dumplings - hard to get better than that, unless it was ELK stew, of course.
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Re: Rabbits
« Reply #39 on: January 11, 2017, 08:35:42 PM »
I have hunted bunnies with ML shotguns and ML small bore rifles. Also the same modern equivalent. Now I just go pull one out of my rabbit pens. :P

That's what I'm talking about 100% success rate . :D
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« Reply #40 on: January 11, 2017, 10:48:06 PM »
Do the domesticated rabbits taste different? Better? Worse? They have to be one of the easiest animals to raise for food given their fast life cycle.
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« Reply #41 on: January 12, 2017, 12:14:54 AM »
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They have to be one of the easiest animals to raise for food given their fast life cycle.
I have eaten both and I don't remember any difference in the taste but I suspect it would depend on what type of food was fed to the tame one and what food the wild one had access to.

While on the subject, I always wondered why some company has not pushed the raising/selling of rabbits in the same way chicken's are raised. Rabbit is white meat, tastes good, multiply quickly and I understand its very low in cholesterol. If I was a young man I might look into raising them for the general public's use. Probably would have to invent a fancy name for it before most younger people would eat it.
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Re: Rabbits
« Reply #42 on: January 12, 2017, 02:14:21 AM »
I have seen dressed rabbit for sale at the grocery store for $28 per rabbit...... :o
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« Reply #43 on: January 12, 2017, 03:44:53 AM »
My folks, specifically my Mom, tried to raise rabbits back when I was away in college. Turned out we had a male who wasn't bright enough to figure out which end of the female was which. Rabbits which wouldn't reproduce, go figure...Plus, when when it came time to slaughter them, Mom discovered that the process wasn't anywhere near as simple or as humane as she thought it was going to be...I forget the details, but I think one of her attempts ended up involving a drunken, screaming bunny bleeding out in our backyard, and smacking a bunny on the head didn't work too well either.

I got one bowl of bunny barbecue in a care package while in college, and that was it.

Mom did try pretty hard, but after awhile she gave it up as a bad job. She did try, though. I missed the whole thing.
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Re: Rabbits
« Reply #44 on: January 12, 2017, 03:16:08 PM »
Interresting that we've had 2 pages of discussion on rabbits. Even though my wifes' family were hunters, she wouldn't eat any wild game  when we met. My father was a cajun and I grew up eating all manner of critters. But my wife likes to eat and now she eats whatever I fix and likes most of it, even turtle. I like to eat rabbit maybe 4 or 5 times a year. Wife sais it's not her favorite. A rabbit has a strong smell. Rabbit innards especially. I've been told that a rabbit needs to eat it's food twice. It passes through and then he eats it again. I don't know if this is true or not. A cow hocks up a cud and chews it and swallows it again, has several different stomachs, too.
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Re: Rabbits
« Reply #45 on: January 12, 2017, 04:31:54 PM »
When I lived on our left over farm in the middle of Davenport we had loads of rabbits. Now that I live way out there are few rabbits. We gota keep our coyotes and foxes feed on something you know.... ;)

They are still here in Davenport, just where you left them - need any ???

I need fewer ... or maybe a fox or two !!!
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« Reply #46 on: January 12, 2017, 07:11:53 PM »
...I've been told that a rabbit needs to eat it's food twice. It passes through and then he eats it again...
That is my understanding as well. If I recall correctly the fibrous material is somehow separated from the nutritious bits the first time through and come out packaged separately.
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Re: Rabbits
« Reply #47 on: January 13, 2017, 12:06:04 AM »
When I lived on our left over farm in the middle of Davenport we had loads of rabbits. Now that I live way out there are few rabbits. We gota keep our coyotes and foxes feed on something you know.... ;)

They are still here in Davenport, just where you left them - need any ???

I need fewer ... or maybe a fox or two !!!
I shot two foxes whilst in Davenport. They seemed to be more interested in my chickens than all the rabbits running around.
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Re: Rabbits
« Reply #48 on: January 13, 2017, 12:24:43 AM »
As a lifetime hunter/observer/trained naturalist, I have no qualms, whatsoever, about eating any fair chase game.  I've eaten squirrel, deer, possum, alligator, snake, rabbit, etc.  I just can't bring myself to consume the flesh of any creature held captive with nothing to look forward to except being slaughtered.  I do not  have any problem with those who do; it's just my personnel choice.  Not really a vegetarian, mind you, because I will occasionally eat fish - "pescetarian" is the proper designation.  I too easily bond with domestic critters to ever feel anything but guilt were I to have a hand in that process.   
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« Reply #49 on: January 13, 2017, 12:27:36 AM »

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I shot two foxes whilst in Davenport. They seemed to be more interested in my chickens than all the rabbits running around.
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The rabbits were interested in your chickens???  ;D
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