rabbit shooting

[erk108]

Hi

I am new to rabbit shooting and need advice,using a gammo hunter 440 with 3*9*40 hawke scope hunting in a cricket club.I hide using cammo net and full cammo gear but no rabbits are showing.When i first pull up to club there is a couple but when they see me they are gone.Wait for 2-3 hours but no rabbit comes out.i tried waiting down wind too but seems they know where i am hiding any advise please.I usually hunt about 5pm till dark is this too late for rabbits?.

[astraman1]

nope not the wrong time as such you need to find out when there out most and get there before them or take a cricket ball it might help

[rabbithunter2008]

Wait till it's just about dark and see if that helps

[southernlad]

smart rabbits eh? How far away from the bunny holes is your hide? Are you definitely out of sight/scent range? Do you smoke / make a lot of noise / break dance etc while you wait for them to appear?

 

Something seems wrong here as rabbits on golf courses are generally more used to seeing us about than the ones out in the fields and usually a tiny bit less wary. There's some at my local cemetary that are pretty much tame.

 

When in the fields when I've set myself up to cover a warren (I approach very quietly and out of sight behind a hedge and then set up at the end of the hedge overlooking the warren from about 20 - 25 yards) I can usually drop one or two before they smell a rat and bolt down their holes. They're usually back out after half an hour or so and I can get a couple more. I don't usually move the dead ones until I leave.

 

Wearing full camo also helps enormously (including a camo balaclava) to get near enough for a shot.

 

Hope this is some use and I'm not teaching granny to suck eggs...

[Axe]

I suspect that you are probably not the only one shooting the golf course and the rabbits have become shy (or wise depending on how you look at it). First things first, you need to establish if others are shooting the course.

 

When you approach the course you need to make sure that your outline is boken up, this is he principle idea of camo gear. But what you must bear in mind is if your wearing a camo jacket and walking onto the course with a bright background behind you, you'll be very visible. So when your approaching an area you know has rabbits on it, keep this in mind. You should adopt this when walking arond the course too. Stick the borders of the course and move slowly.

 

The best method though, would be to try a spot of lamping. Get yourself a good quality gunlamp and give that a go.

[IAN88]

Sit down wind from them if possible i found this worked and i never wash my camo gear unless i have too

[richie223]

try going out later in the night with a lamp,

[Hezbear]

It might help if you can put up a permanent hide or try shooting them from a tree as rabbits never seem to look up into the branches, i've bagged loads by doing this. Also lamping them gets bigger bags

[TuftySnuffer]

I Agree with Axe's statements

 

I've started stalking rabbits at the gliding club where I have got permission. Because during the day there is absolutely loads of human activity like rigging aircraft and noise of things like aircraft and car engines etc. I tried last night and by careful approach the bunnies will allow a human within 15 ft on your belly before scarpering. Can probably get even closer if I get the sound dynamics right and wind to face etc.

 

I just use an old mottled aircrew jacket and a camo face veil to stalk them.

 

However I'm not expecting this to last long, because once I start thinning them they'll soon cotton on.

 

Once my AGS PCR 1 is commissioned with my new scope I'll post some piccies on here....

 

regards

 

Tufty