Rabbits Vision

[kdubya]

Go on I will stick my two penneth in? one of my shoots is an industrial site, and during the day YOU CAN litterally walk up to within a few feet of the rabbits ? they may move a little but in general they are practically "tame" however if you approach them at night? off like the brown stuff on a shovel (pity really as I am only allowed to shoot in darkness (something to do with offices girlies and fluffy things) so my assumtion is its not WHAT they see its what they percieve as a threat! ie day no one bothers them! night man walks up and one of their numbers meets an untimely end? or perhaps it because foxy is about at night? either way I know for a FACT they see you immediately in fact they know the minute you put a foot on the field they are in, bit like the little girl with the red hood really and ooh what big lugs! what big eyes! etc no good having them if you cant use em?

as for infra red my laser cant be seen unless I look through my NV scope now if I cant see it how can it "hurt" me as the warning on it says ( to cowardly to try looking before you ask!)

cheers Keith

[Grimescar-keeper]

If the antis were to read this they'd have a bloody field day. If we cant't get along like good little boys over something a stupid as types of light then god save you when your parents let you out.

 

Now run along.

 

Chris

[BOLTA]

A rabbits view to very similar to ours but the colour will be much more washed out, this is because the eye is made up of more rods than cones, which assist in gathering visible light and infrared light.

Pigeon Master,

 

You obviously have a very bad memory and you are a liar too !

 

Let us have a look at this statement of yours about rods and cones that rabbits have. You state that they have more rods than cones - I say that is a complete lie !

Read this link carefully and in the end of the text you see that rabbits have more cones than rods : http://www.bio.miami.edu/hare/vision.html

 

I have got another link here that says that rabbits see only moderately well in half-light conditions rather than extremely well in in either light or dark conditions. The link is : http://www.wisconsinhrs.org/Articles/What%...bbits%20See.htm

 

Nowhere in any of these text I can read that rabbits should be able to see any form for IR light. So again, where is that information ?

 

I don´t know what you do for a living, pigeon master but to me it seems that you are dealing with cheating and fraud. I don´t know if lying turns you on or what ?? But let me give you some advice here - don´t ever again start lying to people because somewhere down the line you will get caught.

 

Cheers - Bolta

[Gemini]

Gentlemen, I think this is getting a little out of hand.

I have no idea what a rabbit sees, although I find that they have poor close-up vision, which is why they will run straight into a purse net when bolted from their holes.

I think that the main criteria with them is movement, which they seem to pick up on more than actual recognition of something or someone. I daresay that, like me, many of you have been able to walk towards a rabbit until you have gotten quite close. It will just sit there looking and trying to work out what it is seeing. But the second you lift your rifle up then the chances are that it will bolt…probably because the movement is “Lateral”.

Good discussions come from a sense of trying to find out things by working towards a common understanding, and not by hurling abuse.

Now stop shouting or I will smack the back of your legs.

http://www.happy-easter.com/jokes.htm

 

 

G.M.

[jpw99]

On a lighter note - when i first started out back in the 80's i went into a gun shop to buy my first pigeon decoys. On leaving the shop i asked if by chance they had any rabbit decoys - you know i can still hear them laughing

 

Jim the geordie

[pigeon master]

I know, it only started as a wind up, but some, mention no names tend to bite like a pitbull.

 

I'm all done with it, but me and BOLTA do enjoy a good shouting match now and then.... its the way we communicate.

 

No hard feelings, but you still dont know what your talking about.

 

The PM

[Axe]

Well this just gets worse. I was out last night and was slowly creeping along a hedge looking over it into the next field. I made my way up to a line of bushes whilst still looking left over the hedge. Nothing going on so I turned my head forward only to see a rabbit sitting just behind a small bush at about 10yards. He then ran off only after having clocked my ugly mug!!

 

Im beggining to think its the whites of my eyes they can see. So if anyones near Brighton next Tuesday and wants a laugh...im gonna try an Inspector Clusoe disguise and don a pair of dark sunglasses! B)

 

 

Regards,

 

Axe.

Edited June 1, 2005 by Axe

[Axe]

Went to the Sussex Game Fare on sunday and spent all day watching the demo's, Longnets, Ferrets, Dogs, Falconry, etc and wandering about the many stalls. The show itself was fantastic and we all had a great day out.

 

I managed to pick up some great bargains including a new real tree cap and veil. I tried this out yesterday evening and....WOW what a difference. The rabbits just dont seem to notice me. At around 8pm one particluar field thats recently been harvested of its crop, was riddled with around 40-50 rabbits. I broke cover and entered the field with most of them bolting as the sun picked me out like a spot light. I crept up to a small pile of rubble and laid up off to one side. Within minutes the rabbits were back out and the first catch was taken. After collecting it, I returned back to my position and waited for another 10 mins before they started hovering about the hedge's. 15mins on and they are all coming back out but keeping distance. I decided to move in and crawled veil down in to around 40yards. This had taken some time so I decided to go on all fours and to my surprise, they didnt notice at all. Came within 30 yards, took aim, and picked up another for the pot. Infact I found you could just sit bolt upright in the field at 50 yards and they really didnt seem to be bothered at all.

 

In all, we managed to get 10 rabbits in just 2 fields, in a little over 3 hours. I know this isn't breaking any records, but we had a great time and the new veil has brought stalking to a whole new level for me. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

 

Thanks to all who suggested the veil, i'll post some pic's of the catch in the sporting pictures section later.

 

Regards,

 

Axe.

Edited June 15, 2005 by Axe

[Teal]

On a lighter note - when i first started out back in the 80's i went into a gun shop to buy my first pigeon decoys. On leaving the shop i asked if by chance they had any rabbit decoys - you know i can still hear them laughing :(

Seriously though - if you shoot a bunny and leave it or alternatively put out a fluffy toy (teddy bear etc...), it really does work as a confidence booster. Axe I reckon you could increase your bag if you did this- be sure to let the first bunny come out quite far into the field though (or your toy) as sometimes they are reluctant to venture out further than this. All this said- the dead rabbits left in the field until the end will become fly blown very quickly- so maybe it is best to shoot a few left and put them in a canvas sack.

[Evilv]

I managed to pick up some great bargains including a new real tree cap and veil. I tried this out yesterday evening and....WOW what a difference. The rabbits just dont seem to notice me.

Great story Axe. I need something like that. It was wet and windy here last night, so I spent hours wandering around with the TX200, peeping over walls and around the corners of woods. Only got two chances, one that was too far, but no chance of a stalk, and the other on the way back to the farm, where I spotted a rabbit by a hedge a hundred yards away as I came over the hill. Unfortunately, I was right on the skyline to him and he saw me, ran towards the hedge and parked himself about eighty yards off the track. Spotting some old agricultural kit about forty yards from him, I kept to my course, walking tangentially to him, and when he disappeared behind the muckspreader, I ducked down and made a bee line straight towards him, eventually peeping over the edge, and there he was, forty yards off and probably waiting for me to reappear on the other side. My rifle is sighted at 26 yards, so I raised the 30 - 30 sight so his head sat right on top of the lower vertical post. It was rock steady on the baler as I squeezed the trigger. Wizz - SMACK and he rolled over without a twitch. It was my best shot yet with the new rifle. Perfectly placed twixt eye and ear. A sprig of grass stuck out of the side of his mouth.

 

Made a fine curry out of him this afternoon. Can't wait to get out again.

[Axe]

Thanks Evilv, here is a pic of the pot we caight at the shoot last Tuesday. Sorry if the image is a little fuzzy, it was taken with a phone. Anyway, we were pleased with the results.

 

And before anybody says anything, yes they are S16's and they do work well. :(

 

Regards,

 

Axe.

 

[Evilv]

LOL - good going there Axe. I thought I'd take a picture of the 'Lone Rabbit', I bagged, especially since the shot was so well placed, but them I thought I'd give you lot with your Edwardian Gentleman sized bags a chance to take the ****, so didn't. I got three the time before, mind... It was the weather that done for me this week... Honest.