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Rabbit Shooting
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05-07-2008 4:44pm#1
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a hare is a long wheel base rabbit:D:Djohngalway wrote: »With bigger radar
o yes very good i am 6 ft tall and have big ears and the fur is my coat:P0 -
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whats the story with rabbit shooting throughout the year, are there certian times that are best for shooting them. like if there breeding do you have to stop. when is the best time lamping them spring summer autumn winter,or can you lamp all year round when shot and paunched do you need to leave them over night in cooler or can they be eaten that day.
Do you want to shoot some rabbits next year? if so, you must allow some to bread this year. If you had to shoot a few during the summer I'd try and shoot some bucks
. It is some times possible to tell bucks by the aggressive male behavior. Shooting males will still effect next years numbers but not to the same extent if you were to have shot female aswell.
Also there have been a few people here in the hunting forum who were upset when birds were shot outside out of season (and they weren't even damaging crops at the time) because of the ethics of leaving young birds to starve to death. TBH its not much different for rabbits and TBH thats not the mindset i would like to set but i would like you to think that it is possible to manage you game through selective culling and shooting at appropriate times of the year.
If you were to listen to the law it would have you believe that if you have access to sporting rights then you own anything on your sights but you and i must consider the next generations and by doing so we will inevitably insure a bumper crop for our selfs for years to come;)
I read some where that, native American Indians (hunting) would often allow the first animal they saw to pass unmolested. By allowing the first to pass they believed this would ensure a plentiful supply of game in the future.
So don't shoot the first deer you see and there will always another!
Nice way of thinking.....
NOTE: rabbit doe's loose condition during the breeding season because of pressure place on their bodies to produce milk for their young and this does effect their meat. These are ref to as Milky Doe's.1 -
ivanthehunter wrote: »Do you want to shoot some rabbits next year? if so, you must allow some to bread this year. If you had to shoot a few during the summer I'd try and shoot some bucks. It is some times possible to tell bucks by the aggressive male behavior. Shooting males will still effect next years numbers but not to the same extent if you were to have shot female aswell.
Also there have been a few people here in the hunting forum who were upset when birds were shot outside out of season (and they weren't even damaging crops at the time) because of the ethics of leaving young birds to starve to death. TBH its not much different for rabbits and TBH thats not the mindset i would like to set but i would like you to think that it is possible to manage you game through selective culling and shooting at appropriate times of the year.
If you were to listen to the law it would have you believe that if you have access to sporting rights then you own anything on your sights but you and i must consider the next generations and by doing so we will inevitably insure a bumper crop for our selfs for years to come;)
I read some where that, native American Indians (hunting) would often allow the first animal they saw to pass unmolested. By allowing the first to pass they believed this would ensure a plentiful supply of game in the future.
So don't shoot the first deer you see and there will always another!
Nice way of thinking.....
NOTE: rabbit doe's loose condition during the breeding season because of pressure place on their bodies to produce milk for their young and this does effect their meat. These are ref to as Milky Doe's.
NOTE: rabbit doe's loose condition during the breeding season because of pressure place on their bodies to produce milk for their young and this does effect their meat. These are ref to as Milky Doe's.
Ivan Milky Doe's are often more aggressive than buck rabbit especially when the next generation are growing up, just ask yours. Sometimes Doe's get to work for vice pres of the assembly of big warrens and get an invite to meet the family today many pervs like to look at young rabbits but not for long as they soon get spotted. That's the world of today for you.0 -
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kieran1141 wrote: »would'nt mind a bit of that.
me too, can bring rifle, lurcher and ferret to the party
Rabbits have been very scarce round me for last 3 or 4 years, used to regularly go out and shoot ten or 12 just going round the one small 5 acre field, all for the pot or dogs. Could walk for miles all night with the lurcher and only see 3 or 4 whereas we used to regularly get up in the 20's
These days might shoot 10 a year out in Meath at my cousins place, again for the pot.
But this last year have seen a lot of rabbits around which is reassuring, but still wont shoot or hunt them to let numbers build back up once more.0 -
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