Rabbit or any small game hunting

[Black Hand]

From the drop-down menu, you need to select one of the options with thumbnail in the name.

[Daryl]

Too long in tooth to drag deer.... fox squirrel with a .32....is about all I hunt


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Looks like a small game rifle might have come out of the Hawken shop. Cool!
The trigger guard "fits"!

[codger]

Daryl; I built that half stock from a maple plank about twenty or so years ago....32 Green mountain barrel ,Maslin percussion lock....forged the butt, sawed the patch box and toe plate from some scrap and cast the nose cap.
I had to add a peep sight for my old eyes a couple years ago
Don

[D. Taylor Sapergia]

Old pic from 7 years ago...where does the time go?  15 bore Manton double percussion and ruffed grouse.

[Pukka Bundook]

Nothing much to hunt up here in small game.
Nothing better than pheasants and partridges, (Grey partridge that is.....Hungarian to some)
Rabbits V thin on the ground.  Too many hawks and owls and such.
Squirrels up here far too small to bother with for eating.   

A good old flint or percussion shotgun makes a lovely companion.  Can sit and admire it when no game about! 
Small game/birds is my favourite sport, If there was any!  (This was the only type of shooting I did  back in UK)

[ddoyle]

Leave it to the guy with access to Mulies, Elk, Bears, Moose to complain about the lack of some imported farm game LOL!  Pukka I think you might be spoiled. Burn a few bucks in gasoline and I bet you can fill the nissan with little critters. Even locally you must get some decent widgeon shooting?

If anyone is yearning for spectacular small game shooting head to Central/Northern B.C and get a non resident small game liscence. What Taylor's pic does not show are the other 9 grouse he likley took. Such a bag takes about two hours of gentle walking away from and to a 2wd rental car. A legal possession limit of B.C small game and watefowl adds up to more then one small game meal a week for a year and a goose for every holiday on the calender plus extra . Not bad for a cheap lisc and no guide required.

[Daryl]

I think they reduced the grouse limit to 10 per day, 20 in possession. I could check - got the regs. around here somewhere. Couldn't find them.

[ddoyle]

30 in the freezer plus your 24 drakes,  20-30 geese, 10 hares and what ever chukars- hungarians- phesants you are allowed.  Worth the trip.

[D. Taylor Sapergia]

ddoyle:  I concur - we live in paradise for both large and small game.  Even so, I wish there were more deer...they can be difficult to bag.  Deer hunting has improved here, over the past forty years, though.

[heelerau]

Back in 2013 I was shooting rabbits in our garden, off the front stoop with my early Lancaster style rifle