389mt Bunny with the .223

[Elmer]

At last a calm day, almost zero wind, 18c and sunny BUT still not a lot to shoot at due to the lack of decent rain, the rabbit numbers have been down .
Although, disappointing I did shoot a couple at medium to long range.
The first one was at 313mts(342yds) and with almost no wind to worry about I dialed 3.1MOA elevation and .2 MOA for windage . At the shot , victim leapt forward and rolled down his burrow stone dead.
The second was at 389mts (425yds), this time with zero wind the scope was dialed for elevation only ...5.3MOA and the Leupold duplex quartering his chest the bunny collected the bullet just behind his ribs,dumping him half way down the entrance to his burrow.
cheers,
Sean.

https://youtu.be/pzPe5UUDAXQ

[Browning]

Nice work and cool little vid

[Yelp]

425yds... Nice one

[bigfellascott]

Nice one Sean, do you reckon that second one had Myxo? the eyes looked white and bulging.

[Elmer]

Nice one Sean, do you reckon that second one had Myxo? the eyes looked white and bulging.

Hi scott,
no mate she was clean, i dont see much myxo around the areas I shoot.

[Elmer]

Thanks Browning , still more to come.

Nice work and cool little vid

[Elmer]

Cheers Yelp.

425yds... Nice one

[bigfellascott]

Nice one Sean, do you reckon that second one had Myxo? the eyes looked white and bulging.

Hi scott,
no mate she was clean, i dont see much myxo around the areas I shoot.

Ah roger that, just looked like it had a white bulging eye in the vid nice shooting mate as always.

[Elmer]

Yeah mate, it does look cool, when you look at the impact frame by frame you can see the bunnies blow up like a balloon before popping

I lovr the second shot, you can see the bullet arc in

[on_one_wheel]

Sharp shooting ! Must be a great camera to get that quality from those distances.

There is a lot of country around the mallee that looks like that. It looks similar to a property I hunt on near Monarto.

[Elmer]

Thanks mate, the cam is a Panasonic HC-V550M....this one is way past Monarto ,past Karoonda heading east.

[Ariat]

Slow mo always makes busting bunnies look better

[Title_II]

Nice shooting.

You don't eat rabbits in Australia? Here we eat them. We dust yotes and groundhogs.

[handofcod]

What projectiles are you using in that 223?

[Elmer]

Nice shooting.

You don't eat rabbits in Australia? Here we eat them. We dust yotes and groundhogs.

I used to mate, but when I see the farmer spraying his paddocks and watch the bunnies eat their own s**t during drought , it makes me think twice.

[Elmer]

What projectiles are you using in that 223?

55gn Ballistic silvertips.

[Deco]

You don't eat rabbits in Australia? Here we eat them.

We do, but....

We've released the Myxomatosis virus here to cull the population so there are sick ones about. I don't think the US ever did that for their rabbits right?

Or in some places there are so many they need to be destroyed faster than you can eat them.

We do eat 'em though.

[Title_II]

You don't eat rabbits in Australia? Here we eat them.

We do, but....

We've released the Myxomatosis virus here to cull the population so there are sick ones about. I don't think the US ever did that for their rabbits right?

Or in some places there are so many they need to be destroyed faster than you can eat them.

We do eat 'em though.

No, we never infected them with that. They can have Rabbit Fever but it is very rare and can be avoided by not eating them certain times of the year in certain areas.

[Seconds]

They've released Myxomatosis virus here a couple of times but the population is building up a resistance/immunity.

15-20 years ago they started releasing the rabbit Calicivirus too to try and improve the reduction rate over the original.

Neither able to effect humans AFAIK but make for a crook looking rabbit you wouldn't want to eat.

[Oldbloke]

Nice shooting.

You don't eat rabbits in Australia? Here we eat them. We dust yotes and groundhogs.

Hum bug. Heaps of people eat rabbit..My fatfer inlaw loved them, ate all I cooud shoot. I think lead poisoning got him in the end.

[Wobble]

Heaps of people eat rabbit..My fatfer inlaw loved them, ate all I cooud shoot. I think lead poisoning got him in the end.

If rabbits all he was eating that could have been his problem. They're too lean and if you're eating lots of rabbit and little else you become malnourished.

They're tasty I agree, not saying don't eat them, but you don't want too many of your meals to be rabbit.

[BBJ]

"protein poisoning" isn't ?

Too much protein, not enough everything else, wrecks your liver or kidneys?