laf Posted April 28, 2008 Report Share Posted April 28, 2008 Hi All Has this ever happened to you me and my mate was out lamping last night lamped this rabbit mate took a shot at it and the rabbit fell to its side both thought it was a kill then my mate ran over to it just about to pick it up no more than about 3 feet away and it jumped up and ran off i had it in my scope but never took the shoot at itdue to my mate been in the area and didnt want anything to go wrong was both gob smacked when it jumped up and ran off i am 99% sure he hit it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reedbradshaw Posted April 28, 2008 Report Share Posted April 28, 2008 if i remember correctly somebody on here had a weird experiance once. Apparently he shot a rabbit ( or so he thought ) picked the rabbit up, put it in his bag and went home. some time later he began to skin the rabbit and noticed half way through skinning it that the heart was still beating...obvioulsy it stopped soon after!!! after checking the rabbit there was not a mark on it!! i cant remember who is was at all ( sorry ! ) only thing i can think of is maybe the pellet was out of range and it knocked it out ? ? ? however stupid it sounds!!! anyone else have anything weird happen out in the field ?? Reed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laf Posted April 28, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 28, 2008 (edited) he was 20yds away when he shot it i was 25 and seen the impact down the scope he was using a bisley mag or pest control shooting from a webley stingray Edited April 28, 2008 by laf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CEREALTHRILLER Posted April 28, 2008 Report Share Posted April 28, 2008 Perhaps you just pierced its ears. That can sound the same as a solid head shot. It just stuns the rabbit for a while and then up it gets and bolts away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laf Posted April 29, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 29, 2008 yeah maybe so just seemed a good clean hit well if it ran off a died somewhere else lets just hope the fox and cybs we seen just before picked it up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AIRARMSTX200 Posted April 29, 2008 Report Share Posted April 29, 2008 maybe if you aimed a bit higher. you might of skinned at the same time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob300w Posted April 29, 2008 Report Share Posted April 29, 2008 (edited) if i remember correctly somebody on here had a weird experiance once. Apparently he shot a rabbit ( or so he thought ) picked the rabbit up, put it in his bag and went home. some time later he began to skin the rabbit and noticed half way through skinning it that the heart was still beating...obvioulsy it stopped soon after!!! after checking the rabbit there was not a mark on it!! i cant remember who is was at all ( sorry ! ) only thing i can think of is maybe the pellet was out of range and it knocked it out ? ? ? however stupid it sounds!!! anyone else have anything weird happen out in the field ?? Reed I have had what you describe happen with a 22rf, Put it in my bag, it was out cold, when I got home it ran round the kitchen, closely followed by the spaniel! I looked for any damage when I skinned it, not a scratch! Not a mark on it, ears or anywhere else. Edited April 29, 2008 by bob300w Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2shots Posted April 29, 2008 Report Share Posted April 29, 2008 if i remember correctly somebody on here had a weird experiance once. Apparently he shot a rabbit ( or so he thought ) picked the rabbit up, put it in his bag and went home. some time later he began to skin the rabbit and noticed half way through skinning it that the heart was still beating...obvioulsy it stopped soon after!!! after checking the rabbit there was not a mark on it!! i cant remember who is was at all ( sorry ! ) only thing i can think of is maybe the pellet was out of range and it knocked it out ? ? ? however stupid it sounds!!! anyone else have anything weird happen out in the field ?? Reed I have had what you describe happen with a 22rf, Put it in my bag, it was out cold, when I got home it ran round the kitchen, closely followed by the spaniel! I looked for any damage when I skinned it, not a scratch! Not a mark on it, ears or anywhere else. Ive had this happen with a pheasant before and retrieved by the dog with no signs of any shot penetration at all, shock maybe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
njc110381 Posted April 29, 2008 Report Share Posted April 29, 2008 I blew a rabbits head clean off its shoulders at close range with my 12g and it ran off! I think the nerves can do some funny things, but I've never seen one fall over and lie still before running. You could have knocked it out, but I've never done it. I've been shooting air rifles in the field for over ten years and have had runners several times. It's the falling over as if dead that I don't get Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stumpy28 Posted April 29, 2008 Report Share Posted April 29, 2008 it b the goasts of the rabbits from b4 tryin 2 scare u quite strange tho Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob300w Posted April 29, 2008 Report Share Posted April 29, 2008 (edited) "2shots; Ive had this happen with a pheasant before and retrieved by the dog with no signs of any shot penetration at all, shock maybe." No, that's different, your pheasant was dead, and it was shock. I have seen a pheasant get up, a lad raised his gun and the pheasant dropped dead with no shot being fired. Highly stressed birds are prone to it. What happened with the rabbit was that it was shot at, it fell over and lay unconcious, assumed dead, and came round apparently unharmed later. Not the faintest idea of where it was hit. Edited April 29, 2008 by bob300w Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laf Posted April 30, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2008 (edited) was a head shot been down there last night and had a look there was a rabbit laid dead in the tree line roughly the same size moved it to where i know there is some foxes and cubs seems he hit it in the nose Edited April 30, 2008 by laf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomasbeaton Posted May 4, 2008 Report Share Posted May 4, 2008 had a similar experiance, ringed a chicken and pluked it and left it out the back garden and whent for lunch, came back and the chicken was running around the garden. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrispti Posted May 4, 2008 Report Share Posted May 4, 2008 I think I read, or got told ,cant remember, anyway somebody hit a deer with his car, picked it up thinking it was dead, got a few miles down the road and the deer got up! went completley mental, driver stopped got out and ran! apparently the car got smashed to bits!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildoliver Posted May 4, 2008 Report Share Posted May 4, 2008 Picked up a roadkill pheasant once (it was very fresh don't worry I'm not a tramp. Of course I couldn't have been the one that ran it over legally) it was about as dead as dead can be the car that hit it was going rather sharpish, picked it up broken neck, shoved it in the boot on top of a spare wheel I was taking to my shed, after about 5 miles I got the feeling i was being watched looked in the rear view mirror and there was mrs pheasant staring at me with head laying on one side. Quite amusing in retrospect but distinctly unnerving at the time! Pulled over and put the poor old girl out of her misery. Can't bear to see animals in pain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bignoel Posted May 4, 2008 Report Share Posted May 4, 2008 years ago i threw a stone at a running rabbit it hit him square on the head and over he went i pickt him up and a few moments later he awoke only knockt him out good job i never started to clean him out ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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