Trade Gun rabbit

[Juniata]

If you watch Monty Python’s In Search of the Holy Grail you’d understand. But yeah, I’m probably a little weird.

Yea I don't watch much of anything.

 

[Britsmoothy]

Excellent photos Juniata.

 

[tom_in_vt]

Beautiful gun, great job.

 

[toot]

I took a walk this afternoon for squirrels and couldn't find one. So I started kicking brush piles. Seems stupid since I have 2 good rabbit dogs at home in their kennels.
Anyhow, I kicked up 2. The first one ran a short spell and stopped so I blasted where I last saw it. Dead rabbit!
As far as the 2nd rabbit, I saw a greenbriar tangle so I eased up and looked into the brush pile and could see it's black bead eye... Very seldom do I pick them out but this one I did...so I got on the ready and stepped up closer, it darted out, did a 180 and zig zagged down across and all I can say is there was fire, smoke and leaves flying up everywhere but the rabbit was still goin'.
So much fun.

what load did you use? was the gun a 20 bore?

 

[fjrdoc]

Congrats on your kill. I went out yesterday with an unmentionable 1897 shotgun looking for squirrels and rabbits. Unfortunately, I didn't see hide nor hair of either.
Your trade gun is very handsome. Did you build it of purchase it assembled? Please give details.

 

[Dusty_Traveler]

Congrats on a successful hunt and a beautiful gun. Your next test will be to cut down the mightiest tree in all of the forest wiiiiitttthh...a HERRING!

 

[Kentuckyjed]

Three shall be the number and the number shall be three.

 

[Kentuckyjed]

I'm curious also in what load/shot/powder concoction was used also. Thanks

 

[Jedidiah]

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Very nice Fowler.

 

[Juniata]

In response to several questions here, it is a NW Trade Gun kit from Pecatonica.
I went with a 3' Rice 20 ga.
Opposed to the L&R Queen Anne lock, I asked for a Chambers Virginia, that lock is awesome, so well built, fast and sparks like crazy.
I have a YouTube video on the build. Look up my channel B Kauffman and search My 2nd grade gun build.

Load was 140 grains of homemade powder. Yes I'm not crazy... 140 grains, the stuff isn't as strong as commerical powders so I just dump two 70 grain measures with down the tube!
Half a cushion wad spit lubed, about 1.25 oz of #6 shot with an over shot card.

 

[springfield art]

Do you actually eat them, or?

 

[Juniata]

Do you actually eat them, or?

 

[Juniata]

Do you actually eat them, or?

 

[TDM]

Yummy x 2!

 

[Jedidiah]

Well, had rabbit once. Must have been cooked wrong but chewing on a piece of garden hose would be a close match to it? IMHO. There is also a thing called Rabbit Famine or something like that , It states that you can literally starve eating Rabbit because it has zero nutrients, etc in it that will keep you alive.

 

[TDM]

Rabbit is a super lean meat, no fat. That’s why you’d starve eating nothing but rabbit. Gotta have some fat.

 

[64Springer]

Well, had rabbit once. Must have been cooked wrong but chewing on a piece of garden hose would be a close match to it? IMHO. There is also a thing called Rabbit Famine or something like that , It states that you can literally starve eating Rabbit because it has zero nutrients, etc in it that will keep you alive.

Just another internet myth.

Rabbit Famine only effects a certain group of humans.

Those who can't shoot straight.

 

[64Springer]

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That's a lot more meat than I would have expected.

YUM!

 

[shorthair]

In medieval England they hunted them with hand grenades...

Great hunting!

My personal favorite wabbit weapon has always been the 3" Parrot rifle. .

 

[Magungo1066]

My personal favorite wabbit weapon has always been the 3" Parrot rifle. .

You are all backwards my friend. That is made for giant parrots.

In all seriousness I am jealous over the OP's success! I haven't eaten rabbit in a little while. One of my favorite game to eat.