During a recent outing with friends, we got into talking about what the best guns and shot shell size for rabbit. What do you guys reach for when chasing cottentails?
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During a recent outing with friends, we got into talking about what the best guns and shot shell size for rabbit. What do you gu
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First, since I don't hunt waterfowl anymore, I use lead shot.
Second, "pattern density" kills, not shot size!
As far as digging out shot? It never bothered me much. Lead "oxide" (that frosty coating on the outside!) is the toxin that goes into the body. Lead is an accumulated toxin.
As long as the "pellet" passes through your system, no problemo!
Bunnies are relatively "fragile" animals.
Here in my area of the Great Southwest, nobody hunts cottontails to eat. It's the old "tularemia" scare. I kill 'em out of my garden every year. Even the dogs won't eat them!
BTW! I normally use a .22 when sniping them out of the garden. At night in the yard, it's a 20 gauge with a "skeet" choke and field load 8's.
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Hi...
My favorite firearm for bunnies (and other small game) is a .410/.22 over/under.
Have had excellent 'luck' with it.
Is also good for puddle-jumping wood ducks. And for partridges. And squirrels, too.
When/if you need to get off a second shot for the bunnies (hound hunting?), then a 20-gauge will be ideal. The three-shot Mossberg I used was perfect.
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