First BP rabbit!!!!!

[finaddict]

Hello all I just wanted to share my first rabbit hunt with my CVA Bobcat rifle. I have never hunted with my CVA Bobcat before, but have spent ample time at the range getting it sighted in at 50yds.

It was a beautiful day Tuesday when I decided to head up to the mountains here in Colorado for some after work rabbit hunting. I parked the car and got myself ready. I took a fouling shot, ran a damp patch down the bore and loaded it with 30 gr. of Goex 2F black powder and a PRB and off I started to walk. It was around 2 pm. I was about 150yds. from the car and looked down at the base of a very large boulder and sure enough there it was sitting in the shadows staring right back at me. It was about 15 ft down the side of the hill and about 35 ft away. I inched a few more feet forward and took aim. BOOM!!!!!!! I couldn

 

[cayugad]

I've done three squirrels with a .50 caliber this year. None of them were shot for the pot. A red squirrel is a nasty little bugger. They are a great target but not worth cooking...

Bunny hunting with a .50 caliber.. sounds like a great time. Congratulations on the rabbit...

 

[Flint50]

Congrats on the rabbit! I, too live in Colorado, and have shot a fair number of snowshoes in the Sangre De Christos.I have a 12 gauge percussion sxs. What a blast!!(pardon the pun) Maybe its just me, bu rabbits taste so much better when blasted with a muzzleloader!

 

[roundball]

Hello all I just wanted to share my first rabbit hunt with my CVA Bobcat rifle. I have never hunted with my CVA Bobcat before, but have spent ample time at the range getting it sighted in at 50yds.

That's great...congratulations!

It was a beautiful day Tuesday when I decided to head up to the mountains here in Colorado for some after work rabbit hunting. I parked the car and got myself ready. I took a fouling shot, ran a damp patch down the bore and loaded it with 30 gr. of Goex 2F black powder and a PRB and off I started to walk. It was around 2 pm. I was about 150yds. from the car and looked down at the base of a very large boulder and sure enough there it was sitting in the shadows staring right back at me. It was about 15 ft down the side of the hill and about 35 ft away. I inched a few more feet forward and took aim. BOOM!!!!!!! I couldn

 

[roundball]

Hello all I just wanted to share my first rabbit hunt with my CVA Bobcat rifle. I have never hunted with my CVA Bobcat before, but have spent ample time at the range getting it sighted in at 50yds.

It was a beautiful day Tuesday when I decided to head up to the mountains here in Colorado for some after work rabbit hunting. I parked the car and got myself ready. I took a fouling shot, ran a damp patch down the bore and loaded it with 30 gr. of Goex 2F black powder and a PRB and off I started to walk. It was around 2 pm. I was about 150yds. from the car and looked down at the base of a very large boulder and sure enough there it was sitting in the shadows staring right back at me. It was about 15 ft down the side of the hill and about 35 ft away. I inched a few more feet forward and took aim. BOOM!!!!!!! I couldn

 

[BrownBear]

Congratulations! Keep at it.

I've whapped a truckload of snowshoe hares with a 36 and a 54, and now I'm running up the tally with a Crocket 32. Maybe I need to slow the balls down even more, but it's head shots or nothing with all of them when it comes to leaving something for the pot. Get down into the neck and it just about beheads them. The little guns are fun to carry and shoot, but I'm not going to be the one to tell you to stop shooting the 50. Now if you want some good excuses, we can talk! Little guns are sure fun to carry and shoot, and you'll sell more of your friends on BP using one of those than something with a big hole in the barrel. Folks think I'm nuts when I use the 54, but they stand in line to shoot the 36 or the 32.

 

[Protrucker]

Congratulations finaddict.
I just got my first B/P rabbit today too, but I was using my T/C New Englander 12 ga. shotgun. Lot's of fun!

 

[finaddict]

No doubt! It's fun no matter what you're doing. You would think by the time someone is 43 years old he'd shot a bunny or something, but before I moved to Colorado I lived in the "concrete jungle" :curse: and hunting never appealed to me. Now that I have those beautiful mountians, I'm up there all the time weather I'm hunting or just hiking around. :yakyak:

 

[CrackStock]

The most enjoyable hunting that I have done was for rabbit with a Tennessee smallbore. I used to walk the perimeter of a friend's property in Louisiana. I would hunt along his roads and fields for the long eared bandits. All I had to do was watch and report on deer and poacher activity. I could then take all the rabbits that I could take. <G>

My rifle was sighted for a 6 o'clock hold to take off the head while watching the shoulder area for movement. They have a habit of ducking down to feed at inconvenient moments. It is quickly learned that seeing more of the body helps with this problem.

If you carried a set of crosssticks and crept up carefully, they would not notice you and this set up a beautiful shooting situation. I also learned that the setting of the set trigger would bring them upright for a perfect head shot with the sighting arrangement mentioned above.

I would show up very early or late in the day and pop one or two, but even if I got nothing, the walk was good for me in many ways.

My mother in law would make rabbit in mushroom sauce with a hint of turnip that was great over rice. Mmmmm. Gee, it is early afternoon and time for a walk in the woods -- even if I am i South Carolina now and only see squirrels. I had to raise the sights a tad and learn a new recipe, but I can manage those.

YMHS,
CrackStock