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Offline Standing Bear

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Re: Rabbits
« Reply #50 on: January 13, 2017, 03:24:29 AM »
Hmmmm. Different strokes.  I try to eat meat at least 2x everyday. Success again today.
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Re: Rabbits
« Reply #51 on: January 13, 2017, 07:22:49 AM »
I've used my trade gun (.62) with shot or a patched round ball. 70 gr. 2f,  but mostly a .32 Bedford and a 44" 3/4" barrel, Durrs Egg lock built by D. Henry (of Oregon?).  20 gr. 3f, .311 cast rb. Also emptied my .54 last year on a snowshoe hare after elk season. Head shots only,  they never complain about what they died from, but they sure taste good.  Shot a LOT of cottontails between Thermopolis and Cody when I lived down there.  I miss 'em up here in NW Montana. Speaking of raising rabbits, when I was a crumbgobbler in Park Rapids, Minn. around 1948,49, my dad raised papered rabbits and sold them to the local hospital, among other clients.  Can you visualize THAT nowadays?? A pack of dogs came thru one day and ended his sideline business in short order.  Mom remembers blood & hair all over the yard.

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Re: Rabbits
« Reply #52 on: January 15, 2017, 11:30:55 PM »
 Quite by chance way back when I got my first muzzleloading rifle in the seventies, I shot the head off a jackrabbit in my Dad's pear orchard. Dad detested them because they would girdle the young trees. Some of the young Hispanic pear pickers saw the rabbit go down, and ran out and retrieved it. They cooked it up and relished getting a meal for free. I went over every afternoon after work and shot rabbits. I got pretty good at shooting rabbits with a .50 cal. Muzzleloader without wrecking any meat. But the rabbits started getting wise, and took off at the sight of my old '40 GMC pickup. So, now most of the shots were on the run. Often a body shot would kill the rabbit but not damage any real etable parts. But, one day the rabbit did a quick turn just as I touched the set trigger, and the ball caught him in the backsides and went end to end. The young pear pickers had grown quite used to not having to spend anything on dinner, and heckled the tarnation out of me for my bad shot.

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Re: Rabbits
« Reply #53 on: January 16, 2017, 05:10:53 PM »
That is a funny story.
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Re: Rabbits
« Reply #54 on: January 16, 2017, 11:25:57 PM »
So, A guy has a neighbor and his daughter has a bunny in a cage in the back yard. One day his Beagle comes into the house with the kids dead bunny. Oh NO, the fella thinks, we're already not getting along with the neighbors, and now my dog has killed the kid's pet bunny, What To Do??

So he cleans up the bunny and sneaks over to the neighbor's yard and put the bunny back in the cage. All is well right?

NOT! His neighbor comes over the next day, all upset and in grief. He says there must be some really sick SOB living around here!!!

Turns out the little girl's bunny went and died on it's own. She and her family had a little funeral for it and buried it in the back yard. Now some sick SOB dug it up and put it back in the cage and the kid has not stopped crying since she found it!! YUK YUK
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Re: Rabbits
« Reply #55 on: January 17, 2017, 01:16:17 AM »
Oh no! Another story showing honesty is the best policy.
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Re: Rabbits
« Reply #56 on: January 17, 2017, 04:56:31 PM »
My uncle, and his landlord, at the time, bought a pair of twin calves, that were just weened. They put them in a common pasture, that the landlord owned, that had a check fence down the middle. Now both of these guys were real characters, so anything was possible. One morning on his way to work, my uncle drove by the pasture, and saw his calf laying on the ground. He check the calf, and found it to be dead. Since they were identical twins, he simply put the dead calf over on the landlord side, and replaced it with the landlords live one. Uncle Red worked for the road department driving a pilot car on a local road project at the time. About noon, the landlord showed up with sad hangdog face, and told uncle Red he had driven past the cow pasture and found Red's calf dead. These two were constantly doing this kind of stuff to each other. Somebody should have written a Sitcom about them.

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Re: Rabbits
« Reply #57 on: January 17, 2017, 05:18:49 PM »
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If I was a young man I might look into raising them for the general public's use.
My stepdad raised both rabbits and pigeons (for squabs).  He had a great clientele of eastern Europeans that drove down from Chicago and would buy a couple of dozen at a time.  He had a sign at the end of the driveway that said, "dressed rabbits for sale."  The county health inspector happened by and proceeded to shut him down for having an unlicensed butcher shop.
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