Last couple of hunts

[JackReid 35]

Have been shooting quite a few night on the trot now. Trie da bit of crow hunting yesterday to not much avail using one decoy (maybe the problem) and some bait then setting up in side a hedge onto their position, couldnt get the b*****ds to land and one or two that came in spotted us despite being under a camo not the lot. Will just have to keep trying. Either way got a few rabbits over the nights, Seem to be not getting a thing until the last 30 mins of the shoot. First picture I had a rabbit bounce out at about 4 yrds as I was fairly parrallel with a familiar spot. I was on the ground and desperate for a kill, I lay very still as it thumped its foot against the ground ( I had never witnessed this before). It was a motion that looked like ti was bolting ready to run but actually wa sjust on the spot? Second later another jumped out, I literally couldnt almost hear them breathing and I was sideways onto them both, So i just lay there for a few minutes until they both had moved about 15 yrds down the hedgerow then made my move, very very slowly brought my rifle up and popped one in the head, the other running in. Got back to the main area of the permission to find my mate and couldnt see him so jumped over a electric fence and lay facing onto some troughs....2 mins later another bigun runs out at about20-25paces and takes one for the team!

Second picture was fairly similar, Sat down to have a smoke pre setting up onto my chosen area and just about as I was about to stub it out, a rabbit came bolting from about 50yrds away out a hedge, he ran towards me until about 40yrds. I was just sat and kept still brought my gun up and just couldnt get a steady shot so i put the rifle down and waited for him to get closer and my arms to rest It took two bounds closer and I brought up the gun and took him down. The last one of the night to my dismay was the first mixi rabbit I have seen on the permission, I crept round a corner and he was lucky that I saw him nustling around on the highway to nowhere so popped him and disposed of body.

Happy shooting

Jack

[hiho 5]

none with mixy in our area

[The one 8,587]

We had a wee touch of myxi at one farm hit them hard and it came to nothing ,loads of clean rabbits now

[Coney 3]

Quite a few on some of our permission last year but yet to spot any so far this year......thankfully.

[hughesey1552 0]

how doyou know if a rabbit has mixy?? is the only way too look for white spots on its liver??

 

Thanks, Ryan

[JackReid 35]

how doyou know if a rabbit has mixy?? is the only way too look for white spots on its liver??

 

Thanks, Ryan

 

I dotn know the in's and outs of how mixy gets a rabbit but its unmistable pretty much after real early stages. Theyre eyes like fully puss up until the are like blind and they just rot away basically. Probably quite a few more ways it kills but Im not certain. Not nice. First one I have seen at this place and been hitting it 4 nights a week for 3-4 months.

 

Jack

[hughesey1552 0]

sounds lovelly lol. at least anti's cannot complain about it, your yutting them out of their missery lol

[moses 5]

Hi guys did not know much a bout mixi either so did some research and here is the result

 

 

Myxomatosis (commonly called 'myxi') is a disease which affects rabbits. It is caused by the Myxoma virus. First observed in Uruguay in the late 1800s, it was deliberately introduced into Australia in 1950 in an attempt to control rabbit infestation and population there; see rabbits in Australia. It was introduced illegally to France in 1952 and as a result spread to the rest of Europe.

 

In rabbits of the genus Sylvilagus (cottontail rabbits), myxomatosis only causes localized skin tumors, but the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) is more severely affected.[1] It is crucial to prevent the misdiagnosis of myxomatosis with conditions such as pasteurellosis, rabbit haemorrhagic disease, poisoning, heat exhaustion, E. coli or Clostridium perfringens type E enterotoxemia. At first, normally the disease is visible by lumps (myxomata) and puffiness around the head and genitals. It then may progress to acute conjunctivitis and possibly blindness; however, this also may be the first indication of the disease. The rabbits become listless, lose appetite, and develop a fever. Secondary bacterial infections occur in most cases which cause pneumonia and purulent inflammation of the lumps. In typical cases where the rabbit has no resistance, death takes an average of 13 days

[LOGUNSOLO177 0]

nice shooting guys!! Unlucky about the crows, me and my mate are having similar trouble at our new permission. We have found that later in the day arround 8-9 o'clock they are less spooked and are settling in the trees. But we have yet to go after them properly as we are concentrating on a pigeon and rat problem at the mo!!!!