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No's 5's 36grm, crickeys do you actually want to have a shoulder left as well as any meat, i use 36grm on occassional high pheasent driven days, usually i just stick with 6's 32g as you get a good spread and dont wake up everyone in the nearest village around you! However i did use 24g 7's once and they work, i mean any cartridge will do.

 

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I had a go at lamping rabbits with a shotgun last year and found it was difficult to get more than a couple of rabbits as after the first shot any rabbits near by are gone. Although i did find a 4.10 is much more effective as it is much quiter so the sound dosn't travel as far and as long as the rabbits aren't lamp shy you shouldn't have to much of a problem getting within range of them.

 

for a standard 12 bore load though i found 32 grams of 6's worked fine as i rarley found i was shooting at a great range.

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Has anybody noticed that rabbits no longer stay still for more than 2 nanoseconds when a light hits them. When I were a lad, if you shone a lamp on a bunnie he stood up and surrendered like a frenchman, but no more. Why is that.....................or is it just me

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Yes, i shoot at night at bunnys purely for pest control and as Nick says, they are bloody hard to get at night with shotgun. :good:

 

6s are better for the pot and 32 grams. :)

 

Has anybody noticed that rabbits no longer stay still for more than 2 nanoseconds when a light hits them. When I were a lad, if you shone a lamp on a bunnie he stood up and surrendered like a frenchman, but no more. Why is that.....................or is it just me

 

Id say its because, more and more people are taking up lamping and in their eagerness to get a big bag, are taking pot shots and missing them, thus making them lamp shy. :lol:

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