Why when rabbit shooting should you aim between the eye and ear on its head?
Is it so you get brain shot killing the rabbit instantly?
Is it so you get brain shot killing the rabbit instantly?
I assume we're talking about with an air rifle? The head is a one plink kill and often the most obvious target, especially in long grass. IMO the head is also the most humane place to aim. If you hit, you will despatch humanely. Chances are if you miss, you will miss entirely and therefore avoid wounding your quarry. Also, by aiming for the head you avoid damaging the meat.
Thanks for the info folks.
To be honest I haven’t even got the rifle yet (TX200HC) but my plan is to possible hunt with it if the need arose for food while out camping. But that will only be after I’ve shot for a while at HFT club perfecting my aim to make sure when it comes to it I get a clean kill.
Also need to find some easy rabbit recipes since my last effort of boiled bunny in a slow cooker was horrible.
Grendel, please be aware that you will also need to gain permission to hunt for the land that you are camping on - to do otherwise is to commit armed trespass!..... my plan is to possible hunt with it if the need arose for food while out camping.
Simon, rabbits are often "hocked" by piercing one heel tendon and poking the other foot through to make a loop which is easier to carry, or simple "game carriers" are available to hang on a belt..... And another question, how do you carry the kills? Do you have some sort of poachers sack or string them on a pole??
Grendel, please be aware that you will also need to gain permission to hunt for the land that you are camping on - to do otherwise is to commit armed trespass!
With bunnies, even more important than gutting them immediately is to push out the urine from the bladder - it is this which gives rabbit its "gamey" flavour if you don't. (And by "gamey", I mean soaked in concentrated urine, which is a flavour I've never acquired the taste for!).
Try soaking the flesh overnight in fresh water (leave a tap running very slowly) after initially soaking it in a brine solution for a short while - 30 minutes or so. You will not believe how much better it tastes!