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matt_hooks
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If you search the BASC website there's a list of legal airgun quarry. Pigeons you need to show that they are a pest, and that other reasonable means of preventing them being a pest have been tried.
Rabbits are good airgun quarry. Know your limitations, and those of your gun. The energy required to kill a rabbit is very low, around about 3 foot lbs at the point of impact, maybe less, as long as you put the pellet in the right place. Get lots of practice, your kill zone is about 25mm (1 inch) so make sure that the majority of your shots fall within that size group at the range you hope to shoot at. The absolute maximum realistic hunting range for a non FAC air rifle is around 40 yards, if you're very good. Some people claim to shoot further away, and indeed some DO shoot rabbits succesfully further away, but for the sake of a humane kill it's not recommended.
The three priorities of the hunter, in order of importance, are.
1:- Safety. Obviously
2:- A Humane Kill
3:- minimum meat damage
Rabbit is great meat, I love eating it, and nothing tastes better than food that you know the history of, and have killed/grown yourself. |
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Colin & Jan
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