A not so ordinary rabbit hunt!

[Britsmoothy]

It was my first real test of a heat treated frizzen on this gun and it passed the test but as per most production reproduction pieces the frizzen spring is to heavy!
I also recently bought some tiny glass jars with cork stoppers for pre measured measures of shot and powder. Worked well too.
Any way I got some rabbit between the showers in the grand time that is September



What was strange today was what fell out of my first rabbit as I gutted it!
Two pebble like masses fell out!



Intrigued by it I cut one open!
To my amazement they contained two dead and well preserved unborn infants! In their own sacks and completely unattached to any other organ! I have never seen this before in over 35years of rabbit hunting!

Never a dull moment in the woods.

B.

 

[rushlake1]

Brits is that a David Pedersoli ?

Big Rabbits too!..Love Rabbit chowder!

Your timing is everything on the unborn bunnies.

Rabbits here can have two litters per year.

 

[Britsmoothy]

No buddy, it is an Artax.

Like any modern reproduction it needed work!

The foetuses were dead, mummified and detached from any other organ.

B.

 

[satx78247]

INTERESTING.

Looks like some GOOD EATING to me, too.
("Chicken fried bunny" is one of my favorites.)

Fwiw, I always enjoy your hunting stories from "The Mother Country".
(While doing some more family history recently, I found out that we still have "fairly close family" in Scotland & Yorkshire.)

yours, satx

 

[Britsmoothy]

YORKSHIRE! Oh dear, nevermind.










:wink:

Back on thew strange rabbit,it seems quite a common thing!

I found this.
https://www.backyardherds.com/threads/rabbit-with-kits-dead-inside.2285/

B.

 

[robinsroost]

Congratulations Nate, its not often that you can kill three rabbits with one shot, LOL. Wow, two giant rabbits, a smaller one and one with feathers, what a great outing........robin :bow:

 

[Britsmoothy]

Let me explain please.
The first shot was a sitter, to my surprise I got a youngster too and I never noticed it's presence.
Shot two was similar.
Shot three escaped mortaly wounded down its hole, a shame.
Shot four occurred when I was about to prepare the gun for the journey home when a couple of pigeon dropped in near by so I moved in and found one of them. Now I could clean the gun when I got home.

B :hatsoff:

 

[satx78247]

Fwiw, MOST of our family, that was resident in Yorkshire, were BANISHED quite early to "His Majesty's colonies in America", as a WORSE punishment than being beheaded.
(A few escaped capture, fled to Calais, later returned to England & some remained in the area until now.)

yours, satx

 

[Britsmoothy]

Fwiw, MOST of our family, that was resident in Yorkshire, were BANISHED quite early to "His Majesty's colonies in America", as a WORSE punishment than being beheaded.
(A few escaped capture, fled to Calais, later returned to England & some remained in the area until now.)

yours, satx

:hatsoff:

B.

 

[hanshi]

A very successful hunt by any measure. That gun looks pretty nice to me.

 

[cynthialee]

Oh how wonderful it is to have rabbit in the pot!
I so sorely miss rabbit hunting.

Roasted after a good 2 days sitting in cold seasoned brine is my favorite way to eat the wild ones.

 

[Wes/Tex]

Now that's one odd bunnie adventure, I'll grant you that. :thumbsup: