Rabbit shooting with an air rifle
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ก.ย. 2024
- What do you do about springtime rabbit control when the dogs and the ferrets are on sabbatical? Simon Whitehead has the answer
Rabbits love a safe environment, with plenty of food, at this time of year - I decided to make a permanent hide in a safe, fenced-off corner of the paddock. It blends into the countryside: an unobtrusive, natural-looking, safe and comfortable hide where I can sit and shoot with the one rifle I use almost as much as I deploy my ferrets.
The hide was made in advance and built to last. Not only will the rabbits become accustomed to it as they feed in the spring sunshine, but from inside I can quickly remove any newcomers to the area. I used some spare rabbit fence posts to make the rifle rest, ensuring that I had the right shooting position. Constructed around this rest is a mixture of netting and ivy so that, from a few yards away, the hide goes unnoticed. Ivy is good, as it retains that fresh-looking greenness for a while.
I filled the rifle with air from my bottle. The FX has an air regulator fitted, ensuring every shot has the same pressure. This gives a consistently accurately placed pellet, good for four refills of my 10-shot magazine.
Once in position, I put on my face veil and gloves. I was tempted to wear some face paint under my glasses but, after seeing some footage of this veil, I saw no reason to change.
As I stared intently through the perfectly constructed letterbox on my hide, I recalled previous shooting sessions when I missed a couple of “easy” rabbits. So I went back to basics. I checked my rifle’s zero at my usual 35 yards using a 16g Diabolo pellet. I charted its performance every five yards from 10 to 50. My rifle pumps out a consistent 24ft/lb, considered perfect for the rabbiting game. By using a 16g pellet, I was getting the balance right between pellet power and pressure, without distorting the pellet.
I was avoiding inaccuracy caused by too much power or incompatible weight of pellet for that rifle and poundage per foot. Shooting low at 10 yards rising to zero at 35 before dropping off to 50, my arc of accuracy was recorded to illustrate how I needed to compensate by raising or dropping the cross-hairs.
Experience confirms that I can easily drop a rabbit at 60-plus yards in the right conditions, but my problem was at the 10- to 20-yard range. Complacency had crept in but, by going back to basics, I could see where I had been going wrong.
A perfect combination of the Cyclone and the 16g pellet delivers the right energy to kill while being light enough to be streamlined, delivering a slightly flatter trajectory. A pellet that hits its target will do its job, which is obviously preferable to one that misses because it is too fast and inconsistent. Velocity and power aren’t everything - accuracy and consistency will always bag you more bunnies. Gravity dropped my quarry in its shadow and, as it rolled over, the other rabbits ran for home.
After sighting in at 60 feet, I could easily cover 5 shots with a nickel th-cam.com/users/postUgkxQt2uORDRfFOVSrO4idv4B90ThT6EOnEL ! Truly a pleasure to shoot! Scope was easy to adjust for eye relief. Only problem the varmints must have seen it delivered lol!Update: So impressed with shot groups at 30 yards I purchased a Hammers 3×9 with adjustable Objective scope! Now a true nail driver!
I didn't see one rabbit shooting with an air rifle. I'm sure they couldn't reach the trigger anyway.
I see what you did here. Lol Brilliant and funny 👍😂😂😁
I’d love to see the video where it could.
And succeed. Multiple times.
Genius
I know I only saw them get shot poor dumb rabbits
The key word is with.
Thanks for posting, I always appreciate when people explain their hunting with whatever method they use. Nice hunting blind as well.
I love how there is just happy music whilst he loads a rifle.
This has to be one of the best videos I have ever seen, video quality is perfect nice and steady camera action too. I hope you have more to show. I grew up on a farm with my big brother who taught me to shoot and I miss those days. After watching your video brought back good memories, thanks.
Grace get out there, with a PCP rifle you will find the whole experience vastly different from the old days!
To anyone who says this is cruel, If you see a rabbit digging holes in a paddock, and a beautiful horse having to be put down (shot in the head) because it stepped in the rabbit hole and broke a leg, which is the most cruel?
Rabbits are cute, but a menace and must be controlled, plus they make excellent eating.
101% Sid!!!
SiliquaeSid agreee completely
SiliquaeSid why are people in the UK so obsessed with headshots
Anyone who shoots and cares about the quarry enough to do the job as quickly and painlessly as possible will take a headshot every time. Instant oblivion is far preferable to a body shot where the rabbit can run into cover or its warren to die slowly.
bb_22.blazehunter 101 We can only have 12ftlbs of energy without a license. And as most people start out like this even when we get more powerful rifles we do it out of engrained habit
Love the distance board, simply yet very handy
I shoot rabbits with an air rifle so I understand how to do it and I agree with almost everything in this video, the only bit I can't get on board with is the chest shot. For me, it's a head shot or no shot, a chest shot doesn't gauruntee an quick, humane kill, I was brought up to respect my quarry and that in my opinion is unnessecary suffering. If that bag is one or two smaller for the day, that's a price worth paying for consistently quick kills
totally on board with all parties here.... hence my question to Simon. The point you make about the dumping of energy from a 24ftlb .22 is the heart of my question. normally id be concerned with "body shots". saw a professional adviser to basc and gamekeepers advocation the .22 airgun as suitable for foxes!!!!....thats about as far as my flexibillity goes.
Head shots are best i agree, but heart shots are just as effective even with a 12ft/ib gun at the correct range.
The only reason head shots are preffered is if youre gonna eat it!
But why be humane to them when it is just so much fun to watch wriggle and squirm for a few moments longer?
@@armyoutcast846 absolutely agree 👍
By the way remember one of the first hunting sessions with a bow:just made a good squeaky gutter:right between ass and genitals and exit right before the ribcage!So that bitch ran to it's hole but an arrow just made it not fit and when I came it was squeaking and trying to escape but was just not reaching the ground with it's legs!So I decided not to put it down but simply held it,pulled out the arrow and put it into the bag for live rabbits!So about hour and a half this squeaky bitch,that stayed alive for actually that long,was happily fed live to one of a huge number of rattlesnakes that my ex-girlfriend used to own!So half an hour more of suffering for a little squeaky bitch was also satisfying to see and hear!
@@armyoutcast846 dickhead
*Happy music plays while rabbits bout to face death*
Bugs Bunny: **Sweats heavily** 😥
True I agree horses are a mans best friend that have carried us for century's we owe to them .
Out lamping the other day and the land owner assured me that her donkeys/horses would be put away. I turn up, the horses are gone (I thought), see the first rabbit (mixxy one out in the middle of the first paddock) put the lamp on it and pull the trigger. The zero must have been knocked in the back of the car because I put the shot off to one side hitting the rabbit quite far back. A donkey (coming from a position where I couldn't originally see it) ran up to the rabbit and John Ceena'd it, no joke. Trampled on it, picked it up in it's mouth and shook it about, dropped it, sat on it, squeezing its legs together to crush it… it went full on bonkers! I have never seen anything like it. The rabbit was screaming like mad! When the donkey finally let it go and it was long dead by this point, i went to inspect what was left of it, being careful not to receive the same treatment, and threw it into the hedge for the foxes. I have no clue what happened, maybe the rabbit was making a noise I couldn't hear but the Donkey could and triggered it into beast mode. It was like Chuck Norris v Kermit the frog. I cannot think of any situation in which a greater battering to any object could occur.
I'm gonna call bs
You sure it wasnt a dog!! Haha
Absoute twaddle
I'll give thumbs up for story but sounds like made up bs
I love the peaceful backround musac as he's just doming rabbits
6:40 that horse ran off before it became a victim xD
poor bastard, she check a lil dude dead and frightening her :D
That background music
That Meme "Life of Riley"
King Yeetus shit bumping
Proud of yourself little man.
This is not cruel, key word here is "control", he was not a maniac shooting everything that's a living moving thing.
Its nice to see someone taking time to do trajectory for clean kills ,when I was a kid I used to do the same with a spring airsporter .22 giving just over 10 ft pounds max distance was 35 yards, as long as you respect your quarry no animal deserves a painful death you wont go far wrong in life
Yeah your on the money there , there's a right way and it's just the right way . I got my pcp but still have an airsporter 177 as backup that's probably more accurate than the newest springers
Some splendid shooting there indeed. The ferret videos are quality, no places to go where I live (Northwest) I would do this every day given half the chance. Keep the videos coming Simon
Thanks, rabbits low here also this year.
Love the rifle. You have a very smooth steady shooting style. Pleasure to watch.
Very well shot/filmed, would be a perfect setup with the rimfire.
The horse “aight imma head out” 🤣
Interesting choice of music.
12ftlb rifle is more than enough power providing you keep you ranges sensible and within your ability and you put the pellet in the right place
Sam Sawyer Your right. Each different choice is just that, a personal choice.
My girlfriend shot a rabbit at 76yds with my sub 12ft/ib wather rotex in 22, conditons were ideal and Mr bunny died of a headshot.
If you know what you are doing with the right conditions a sub 12 gun is perfectly capable of dispatching rabbits at that range, trouble is idiots can legallly buy airguns with no training
Guy: *shooting rabbits*
Background music: DUN DUN DUNN DUN DUN *happy music* DUn DuN DUNNN DUN DIN
As veggies who grow most of our own food the role of the rabbit hunter is essential. Without him or her we would go hungry. Keep off my carrots and greens Peter Rabbit!
@Lip Bip they aren't harmless tf, they dig up fields, veg, breed like mad.
FX is a nice platform to start from ,he set a standard in precision, wash( wd40 bath then dry off ) pellets checking damage removing any lose swarf .scrimp your rifle as it's sharp line moving is very noticeable to quarry , keep up field skills like stalking ,distances plus elevations, the latter really matters as much as distance , build a RDA ( round drop arch) in your mind so you know a shot at 20 yards with 3ft elevation is that on the reticle, same as you know 60 yards with minus 4ft is that on the reticle, practice ,practice, practice , aim for clean kill first shot every shot , people who hunt know when the shot is clean and clear pulling the trigger when they have the skill set to make it clean kill. Only losers make unethical shots out of there skill level that will mame the quarry .animal rights would have a field day at anyone who mame animals and rightly so ,they ain't against culling so long as it's not an idiot pulling the trigger maming the animal .look at foot and mouth incident when animal rights said we agree to culling but don't agree to this - showed a vet with a shotgun running after sheep scaring them and not making clean kills first shot .practice long range as if you've got an accurate rifle and decent supressor you can cull at a distance and the rest of them are unaware your taking them out one after another .always be mindful not to just waste culled quarry , they a lot of people who will take them off your hands , like ferret keepers and even likes of zoo's if you are like me you only hit headshots so all the lead if any will be only in the head which can be disposed off . Hunt to pest control knowing the land owner knows your doing him a great favour and to the people who are greatfull to get the quarry
What an amazing enterprise, am thanking you for sharing this.
I'm watching watership down after this 😭
Thank you for teaching.
Nice Vid Pal, good way to keep on top of the Rabbits. Thanks for sharing, Graham.
grahamh1967 The air rifle is a very underrated way of accounting for a lot of rabbits. My FX Cyclone is used a lot for this very purpose.
Simon Whitehead I have an Air Arms S410 its not FAC but does the job well when needed. Its the best part of Pest Control, just wish I could do more! ATB Graham.
Dear sir.. I using .177 PCP air rifle velocity is 850fps so *jsb 10.34 grain pellets* 20 or 30 to 40 metar distance *rabbit Hunting* cen be possible? Please reply 🤔 ? !...
I77 have a natural flatter trajectory than a 22 ,so if your accurate then you can shoot a little further with less RDA , work out your f/lb an it's OK for 12 f/lb to kill upto 50/60 yards if you have the skill to make clean kills everytime
I stopped the video at 4:52 and it seems that the skirts on the pellets he is putting into the magazine are bent. Other pellets in the tin also look like they have bent skirts. I would toss those pellets into the garbage.
Another great wall owner don't see many of them in Suffolk.great video maybe we will bump into each other around our beautiful county.
Great bit of shooting. I also have done plenty of hunting with air rifles over the years. Quite. Cleen and effective. I do go for a head shots myself. I find a heart shot from a distance is a bit more difficult. I don't think I've ever hit a rabbit pigeon. Squirrel or anything in the head and seen it escape. But that's just my opinion and experience. Anyway thanks for sharing your video. And I'm glad you didn't call everything you shot a HE /. HIM. Like on most pest control videos. Lol. I subscribed. 👍
Plot twist :The rabbits are the paid actors
Poor rabbits!...
the rabbits are like springs wen you shot them
Nicely produced video, hopefully the bunnies end up in a pot somewhere. I guess, FAC power means heart shots are always on, but for 12ft/lb it's head shots only, or can Rabbets be taken with heart shots @ sub 12ft/lb?
Breaking news: Bugs bunny pronounced dead by shooting
I've shot 100s of rabbits with an air rifle... ALWAYS head shots; Although, this rifle you are shooting with has velocity which my ol break-action did not. Nice job on the video
Great video!
You missed the opportunity for an Elmer Fudd joke
When u played modern wafare for a week
Lol
That horse gave a sniff and then ran off like #ididntdoit and #notguilty lol!
Hmm mmm Amazing Gas Riffle Shooting 👏
It’s so funny with the happy music
Hi, I have a big question, if I have a 7.62 caliber weapon (30) can I shoot with a smaller caliber? such as being 6.35 (25) or even 4.5 (177) (exchange and storage with the appropriate pellets). I do not know if it stains a weapon to not break it.
Good vid. Can’t wait to see the next one
Hello sir great video and hunting😀You take it seriously and have put in the time and hard work for yourself to be successful.I don't understand why everyone is leaving bad comments and insulting you. Rabbits are pests they just are. And you are making clean kills so everyone else should just quit hating. Anyway great job😀
Thank you for the entertainment
My friend is sitting next to me and said awwwwe how cute he shot and he yelled
How many Joules does your rifle have?
Sir I have a question, where can I use my gun, if I went just outside the town I live would that be ok to go shooting (NORTH WEST ENGLAND)
4:54 - these pellets look horrible, all damaged. Amazing that they flew straight... BTW. AirArms is just the same pellet as the JSB, had this confirmed by the company (JSB) who manufacture them... same tools.
I was just about to say the same thing about the pellet skirts at 4:54. Most of them look deformed and of varying thickness.
i bought a tin of AA pellets to try and yes.. a lot of deformed ones. not acceptable when they're around £10 a tin. in contrast RWS Superdomes are excellent quality and consistency. even Wasps which are half the price of AA are better consistency
That's because they were showed in close up. Most pellets look manky at X4.
No, they don't.
The pellets here must have been banging around in that tin for months.
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No one gives a shit about pellets
Shhhhhh, be very very quiet, I’m huntin wabbits
another brilliant video simon its exactly what i do this time of year aswell air rifles and snares as im not ferreting this time of year
hey this is call of duty?? because of the bunny jumps lol
Is that true you never ser a hunting rabbits with air rifle Winchester Remington Sheridan benjamín Daisy Powerline 22 177 pellets or BB
Hi there and thanks for the video. What’s your opinion of shooting rabbits with a UK non licence legal air rifle. Would a 12 Lb force be enough? I’ll only be a short distance. Any thoughts would be gratefully received.
Mate that last pellet you put in the mag was absolutely fucked.
Nice, interesting video. Can you explain exactly how you calibrated and shot that board? I kind of half get it, but how did you set it up to get the pellet drop / trajectory? It is a very good indicator.
I would presume he has the board say with one long horizontal line and say 5 vertical lines along the board , on level ground in snipe position horizontal to the board starting left to right and move back in measured increments , 20,30,40,50,60 yards you need to learn elevation as it massively matters in air rifle hunting , so have 6 long horizontal lines with 5 vertical ones . Place the board at 6ft plus your horizontal (shooting into something like a hill ) do your distance, then next horizontal line do it at + 3ft , next at + 1ft ,next at true horizontal, then go down in - elevation , build a mind graph of your rda ( round drop arch) with elevations ,
@@pauldean8638 Many thanks for that, I will be giving it a try later.
What a lovely video and very good shooting
Is it possible to take a rabbit using a 12ft/lb or do you need a FAC rifle?
MakingTheCut No, 12 ft/lb is ample at a sensible distance but I have a FAC rated rifle as I use this in a awful lot of situations I require a wee bit more distance and knock down ability.
Yeah they're fine.
Where can I get that rifle and did it come with the scope? How do I get the gas recharged again?
How much were these?
I’m so tired of finding my tulips and Lilly buds along with my blueberry plants eaten.
In fact I’d even gut, skin and feed them to my dog
You can order the rifle online or you could try to find it in a local airgun or sporting goods store. To change the gas you will have to either manually pump it up with a special hand pump or buy a scuba tank to fill the rifle up but keep in mind that you will have to refill the scuba tank itself, which you can do at a local diving shop
Eny 800 FPs .177 rifles vs 600 fps. 22 rifles = Rabit 🐰 hunting which best sir ? =
Both can do the job, but looking at your name you are probably Indian, in India .22 is requiring license and either way so is hunting. As long as someone complaints, 25k fine and 3 years jail.
For longer range shots, I suggest .177, penetrates more and more likely to kill, in closer range .22 can be far more devastating, can even go through steel cups
@@gambet0007yes... well thank your suggestion sir 😊 🤝...
I note the age of this vid', its good shooting, but try the latest FAC .25 FX Maverick, mine has been tuned to 65ft lb using 35grn Zan slugs at 1050fps, you will find its a huge upgrade on your 24ft lb & more than capable of knocking rabbits over at 75 yards........As THE man says " Dont be mean, kill them clean".
Good hunting.
Hello.Eat the rabbits?.Fernando from Argentina
I thought i was going to see a rabbit shooting an air rifle... they don't have hands so I was sure they can't reach the trigger, much less point the gun..so I was curious oh well
That’s really good shooting with a air rifle 👍
That's about 2 or 3 good meals for the family right there! Delicious!!!
What do you do with your haul of rabbits?
The fur can be used as well as the meat, no?
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No wonder you have so much bullet drop after 30 or 40 yards, why use such a heavy grain of pellet? 16 grain is way to heavy unless you plan on using it for 30 yards or less possibly even 20 yards, I always use 7 or 8 grain pellpax
Bro, your videos are so exciting. I like them very much.
I would like to make a request.
Please use .177 Slug with Brocock Ranger XR for shooting Rabbit and Monkey.
Hoping to see it soon
Please
A Moving Experience!!
Looked alot like 177 pellets but that might be my persoective
That was a sad reaction from the Horse. But I totally get why your doing this, they're a real common pest. Can decimate gardens
Kill quick with least pain and good hunting.
I agree but trying to figure out where best to shoot on their bodies.
Exactly, well said!
Coyotes get our rabbits. Funny story though, I got one rabbit two years ago that was being chased through the snow by a mink.
A kick pad on an air rifle !
I am from chicago got tired of these bunnies. Especially the juvenile bunnies snap the new plants. We chicken wired the area where we grow. These all happen by few rascals start hunting down coyotes, wolves for fun. now the predators are slowly fading away from Midwest. That's why more deer and bunnies population erupting the man made vegetation. Lately I do see a fox family wandering at night and now the bunnies are lot lesser than before.
That was a really relaxing video to watch, well done
relaxing?!? WTF is wrong with you?! This is animal cruelty!
Randy Orton shut up why is it animal cruelty
@@D95RO These animals are an invasive species, they ruin the environment.
5:58 Parkour!
I have a 7,5 joule air rifle where should i aim to get the best results for a killshot ?
I read somewhere that 7,5 joules is not enough for a heart shot
with a 7.5 J air rifle you should only hunt for smaller birds because you can kill them quickly but for bigger preys like rabbits i recommend upgradeing your rifle or buying a new one ... all in all if you shoot a rabbit in the head with your rifle there is a chanche it reches the brain and killes it but if not it will die slowly and painfully
Hi,good hunting,,I used to live in uk,loved rabbit shooting,open sites etc,, well done mate ps I'm still an English man,
Great shooting
Air rifle hunting vidios
love the twinkle music - a bit incongruous with shooting baby rabbits maybe.
i always thought you needed a licence for a air rifle
Hide nicely put together and not just threw up. Can I ask what is the scope you were using making this video?
+Spiritual Trigger Mamba scope
Love seeing those rabbits doing the cirque du solie backflips!.
I killed a squirrel so I kinda feel bad so I’m watching this to feel better
Don’t feel bad about it you did nothing wrong
To all of you who post negative comments,
let my ask you this...
Why the fuck are you watching these videos ???
I know this is an old vid.........but at 4:55 did anyone else see how many deformed pellets this man puts in the mag while telling us all to be careful of using deformed pellets????
Do you eat them after shooting them?
MrPyroguy1 What is he fkin Gollum?
TheEndiPL Hahaha. Rabbit tastes fucking awesome though.
6 min in before the 1st rabbits shot, Fuck me dead!
What gun carrier is that you use at the start?
What exactly does the owner do to have such beautiful land?
Fake the bunny’s where paid actors
I hear your point on heart and lung v head shot...... how does the speed of "lights out" compare??. is it delayed...faster?.... any reference as to stats on these. I'm new to hunting and keen to minimize suffering. to be totally honest were here to kill them not tuck up in their hole just don't wish to cause any unnecessary distress
Hello Simon. Can You tell me what camcorder You used on this video? Thank You.
what fps is that
very nice shooting