High speed dog food.

[NTSOG]

G'day,

In the absence - mostly - of foxes willing to play centre-fire 'catch' I've been chasing hares around my and other properties with the .22WMR and 30 gr V-max. [The little bullets make a real mess of the internals, though I did think I'd missed one hare as it ran off. I shot it again a few minutes later. When I butchered it I found that the first shot was a complete pass-through between the ribs on both sides.] I was raised in the 1950s and ate a lot of underground mutton growing up as chicken was a luxury that was only served on special events, but have never eaten hare. I've heard that to make it palatable it must be hung for a couple of weeks until it turns green. On that basis it's highly unlikely I'll ever eat one, hence it's going to the dog.

As for foxes I did con one to stick its head out of a bunch of blackberries along a steep creek bank a few days ago with a mouse squeak type call on my Icotec. It was sitting at 82 yards and about 35 feet lower than where I was perched so I shot it straight down through the middle of its chest. It flipped over backwards, screaming like it was being given a barb-wire enema. Unfortunately it fell back down the creek bank into the blackberries and I couldn't find it. I've never heard one scream when shot before, but my hearing isn't that flash.

Jim

[Bugman]

Hare today.....gone tomorrow.

[Die Judicii]

Good fun looking for em in the blackberries,,,,,, (tiger snake heaven)

[bladeracer]

G'day,

In the absence - mostly - of foxes willing to play centre-fire 'catch' I've been chasing hares around my and other properties with the .22WMR and 30 gr V-max. [The little bullets make a real mess of the internals, though I did think I'd missed one hare as it ran off. I shot it again a few minutes later. When I butchered it I found that the first shot was a complete pass-through between the ribs on both sides.] I was raised in the 1950s and ate a lot of underground mutton growing up as chicken was a luxury that was only served on special events, but have never eaten hare. I've heard that to make it palatable it must be hung for a couple of weeks until it turns green. On that basis it's highly unlikely I'll ever eat one, hence it's going to the dog.

As for foxes I did con one to stick its head out of a bunch of blackberries along a steep creek bank a few days ago with a mouse squeak type call on my Icotec. It was sitting at 82 yards and about 35 feet lower than where I was perched so I shot it straight down through the middle of its chest. It flipped over backwards, screaming like it was being given a barb-wire enema. Unfortunately it fell back down the creek bank into the blackberries and I couldn't find it. I've never heard one scream when shot before, but my hearing isn't that flash.

Jim

I never take shots straight into the breastbone, too easy to miss everything vital.
My mum's chihuahua was shot in the chest with a .22LR. The bullet traveled the length of his body and exited beside his tail root. He was in immense pain for a week or so, but went on for many years without problems.

[Skinna]

love a front on shot on a fox...its a pretty sure thing there will be no shrapnel holes in the skin...& get em smack in the middle & you cant even see the bullet hole...
Those are the ones i tell unsuspecting people i caught it with my hands...
Ive never had one shot front on that didnt fall over right there.

I have heard them give a screech out with the occasional miss-placed shot though...not a nice sound...

[Blr243]

Lucky chihuahua......never easy trying to spell chihuahua

[pomemax]

NTSOG
Watch this video may change you mind about Hare personally I think better than rabbit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vvk1wkJ ... l=ScottRea

[NTSOG]

G'day pomemax and thanks for directing me to the presentation on preparing Hare. You are the only person who has suggested to me that they are worth eating, though I know that the Poms do eat them. [My mother was a Pom, but we never ate hare.] As the video shows [and I have learned when dismembering the beasties], they pack a lot of really solid muscle into a small frame. My dog is loving them, but perhaps those back straps are too good for a dog. I'll talk to the chef.

Bladeracer did the bullet go through your mother's dog on the outside of the ribcage, but under the skin or inside the ribcage? I have to ask who was it who mistook the chihuahua for a rabbit or similar?

J. D.: As for looking for the fox in the blackberries along a creek in spring - it was a very quick look and I only ventured in a couple of feet before deciding that the snakes could have the fox.

Jim