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The tests I did on rabbit kadavers at 10m with 4.5fpe JSB exacts showed penetration through the vitals, so still lethal shots.
But at 10 to 20m why would you not take a head shot?
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote kruzaroad Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18 Sep 2023 at 10:57pm
Hmmmm would that be the same through the body?
Personally I won't go below 5fpe at target.
Thats about 3.8 fpe at target.
I'd say that is getting pretty dodgy if shot is off slightly.
Leave those low power shots to you I think.
Nice shooting anyway.

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You could upload videos to you tube, then make them visible only to ones with the link. Paste the link here and we get to watch.
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Had a short outing this evening.
Sat on a veranda and waited for some rabbits to come out from under the deck I was sitting on. Was onLy shooting at 11 or 13 yards, but had a shed 14y in front of me, and a spa bath, and 13y to my left was a horse standing there looking at me, and of course the folks sitting in the lounge behind me.
So I had a few things to work around.

Been spending a bit of time with the Pard DS 35, trying to set up a close range (5-20m) low power (4.5fpe) tune for rats and close range pigeons. I haven’t quite got it 100%, but it’s 98% which is close enough for now. I’ll perfect it in the next few days. So I decided to use that low power level this evening.

Only 1 rabbit emerged from under the deck, and it didnt hang around long enough for a shot, but I did managed to get 4 on the outskirts of the garden and through the fence just in the paddock.
Longest shot was 19yards. A little 8.44gr doing 503fps, giving 4.47FPE at the muzzel, is still lethal at 19y. Shot through the left eye and into the brain and it just stiffened up and rolled over, dead as a door nail.

4.5 foot pounds guys, that’s all you need 😂😂😂
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Oops…
I’m sure that’s not supposed to look like that!
Quickly phoned Youngs and got another one on the way.
Guess I’m going to be manually indexing the mag tonight 😂
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It says the video is the wrong file type 🤔
And I don’t know why the picture above is on its side? 😡
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Made it out to the bunny factory late this afternoon.
Windy and drizzeling, bitterly cold wind. But as the evening went on the weather improved. But the wind was still bloody cold.

I spent a few hours this morning making this cunning little devise…


Tested it out this evening and it works beautifully.
Fits onto the passenger seat perfectly, and rests on the center console so it’s rock solid. I put some steps into it for close, medium and far shots, and an extra high step for uphill pigeon shots.
Because the wind was so cold, I decided to just test the new rest all evening and didn’t even get out the ute 😂😂😂 too cold.

Just to make you guys jealous that haven’t seen a rabbit in a while, I just idled around shooting out the passenger window, and I got 28 tonight. Although one was a left hand shot out the drivers side window 😂.

This is the third time I’ve visited this property and I’ve now taken 85 rabbits there, and there are still plenty more to go 😳.
I played with the video function on the pard DS35, and actually managed to get a video clip, which was actually the left handed shot. I’ll try post it, hopefully I’ll figure it out.
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Went out to a very small permission tonight.
It’s just a parking lot really, and two patches of grass.
The owner keeps saying there are rabbits there, and I believe him, there is digging and scratching all along the edges of the drive way, but every time I stick my head in there and have a look around, there are never any rabbits there 😡.
This afternoon I decided to do a stake out there. Bitterly cold wind blowing here today, so I parked in the parking lot at last light and sat in my nice warm ute for an hour. No rabbits to be seen.
Just when I was considering calling it a night, I gave the thermal one last sweep around the parking lot and hey, what do u know, there’s a bunny!
So I snuck out my ute, rifle in my one hand, shooting sticks in the other, crept around a bush, and shot him!

He’s now sleeping in the back of my ute and I now have a test subject for the gamo 10x pellets tomorrow morning.
I want to test them with a head shot at 10m and 4.5fpe, and see if they expand nicely.
Might also try one or two body shots at 12fpe aswell.
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Thanks guys. Was a busy afternoon.
I’ve shot there once before, just an afternoon shoot.
Was between giving the thermion back and getting the Pard so I couldn’t “see in the dark” 😂.
Got 19 that afternoon.
It’s a big property but there are still loads of rabbits there.
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That's awsome number. Have you shot there before or this the first?
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