Most of the bunny targets are out or in the mail so I thought it was time for a new thread focused on the shooting.
I'll go first. I am going to shoot off my hind legs this time. Uffda! My skill need some work.
Aren't rabbits supposed to be shot with a shotgun?
Jim
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Today's effort. SMLE with Lee PB bullet over 6gr Unique, 50m/55y, prone with sling.
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Cheers from New Zealand
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It was blowing and gusting and some times raining.
but I shot one rabbit with 5 standing post in...I mean at the head and another 5 standing at the body
couldn’t see no dang bullet holes till I missed one.
the ol 310 cadet was a bit slow today with a load at about 680 fps heeled 120 grn bullet.
My wabbit load I figure to that range.
Now me leg was a bit wobbly and me good one didin’t Help much.
but proves even with enough luck I would have had a feed of these short eared rabbits.
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1st target shot today. .32 s&w long NEF handi rifle. 100 grain flat point that I made from a 6 cavity Lee blank mold. Bullets are coated with Hi-Tek powder. Gun has a green mountain 4 groove .312" barrel fitted into a mono block, and a 2.5x20 simmons shotgun scope. Range conditions were sunny, 60 degrees F with a steady 10 mph crosswind with 2 cups of coffee on an empty stomach, just to make it fair for the rabbit! Or something like that.
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redleged ... if you shoot those handguns sitting with a scope, remember to stick the muzzle out further than your knees ...
hey, a few years ago i had a friend try to shoot a critter from my speeding pickem-up truck with his pistol ... ... not outta an open sidewindow, but through the windshield ...
ken
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Photo of the ‘ol girl.
310 bsa martini cadet.
Commissioned in 5-11
My suffish ‘to me cated reloading gear.
The secret recipe is 1.5 grns bullseye with a SMALL tuft of Dacron just on the powder.
I have a RCBS heeled 120 grn mould that casts 0.324" and 0.310" heel.
I’m trying to polish it out to 325 and 312.
This hell bent load tears up the country side at about 681fps is good for 50 -60 yards but accurate up to 135 yds if I hold my tongue right.
Cases are made from 32-20 Starline brass with a thinned rim and reformed in a cut off modified old 310 chamber.
Trimmed to my chambers length to seat my cast bullet into the lands for fixed ammo or use the shorter lengthed ones of normal spec for breach seating Pb or pp’ed bullets. I have plenty of short ones 
Small rifle primer. In this case cci. I got some mixed brands of primers "cheap" years ago and using them up. Some don’t even fire but most go bang. Some were even too small to seat in a primer pocket without falling out.
Quiet and dosn’t hurt the shoulder or ears.
Think it is a good rook and wabbit load thou.
Ha
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I shot 3 more targets today to wind up.
Thought I had it made and nearly cheating.
These were shot at 50 yards sitting over a log with a cloth under my forearm.
30 30 H&R with a 1.5 - 5x Leupold scope.
What could go wrong!!! 
Bs pb 308403 clone with 4.6 grns bullseye.
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Greetings,
Another bunny shot at. I loaded some cast without gas checks, but they need a lot of work for accuracy. They had a hard time keeping on a sheet of typing paper at 25 yards. Same load but with gas checks gave a 5-shot group of less than an inch, 4 in one hole, so shot this standing while leaning on a post, with the gas checks. Going to change a few things and try again, but the next bunny will be with the .45 Kentucky. Thought this would be shot with plain bullets, but I was mistaken. I may have to buy another mold. I re-used my first bunny target, and put a black backing on the target and clear tape on the front. One of the shots came real close to being a 7, but I could see the line edge clearly for a 5. 7 rounds were fired at the chest, 3 were fired at the head. I need to do a lot of practicing off-hand. Still, I scored better off-hand than sitting. This is 4X5=20, 2X7=14, 4X9=36. Total = 70.
TK
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Rabbits grow pretty big in this part of Iowa. This is one of the "bunny guns" , Rem 700long range 30-06
bob
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Mashburn ... ok, got ya covered .... you are now on the near-professional ( yet oh-so humble ) .... Ken/Dave Rabbit-Search-and-Destroy Team.
current weapon of choice :: Ruger3, 45-70, load 12.8 gr Unique, Projectile is a Lee Old Army 230 plain base pistol bullet ... optics are non-asymmetrical silicone based lenses assembled by Universal ... focal length ratio of 9 to 1 ....
first test shot was low, trying to acquire the target ... or, it could be that i jerked that 4 pound factory trigger ...
final combined score was 52 .... and a seriously impeded brer rabbit ... evidence photo attached ...
thanks for participating ..... ken
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i am hoping some of our pistoleros will join in on the bunny shoot .... after that teensy nearly invisible 200 yard coyote these 50 yard bunnies should look like billboards .... maybe even could aim AT them, not 30 inches over them ( g ) ...
surely somebody out these has one of those obsolete re-volverators ?? .... my grampa told me about them when i wuz a kid ....
ken
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I've got to get my targets ordered. I have three more friends that will probably be members before long and maybe this rabbit slaughter will be just what they need to push them the rest of the way over the cliff. I've been giving a lot of thought to the fairness of this rabbit shoot. We have more swamp rabbits here than Cottontails, so I'm used to shooting a lot bigger and much more dangerous rabbit. I feel I should ask the sacred rules committee if it would be acceptable to take a legally bagged swamp rabbit and lay it evenly over the target rabbit and use a magic marker to draw a bigger rabbit around the rabbit target. My friends and I have voted and agreed this would be much more honest that poking pretty little tight bullets holes in the highest scoring area. We had even decided on a contest that would award the contestant who could arrange the most artistic bullet hole group. We have even been sawing out profiles from plywood of beagles running in full chase behind the rabbit. Now if we can't shoot bigger rabbits, but we are running them in full pursuit with beagles can we at least use shotguns? I bet I used the word rabbit in that statement as Much as Obama uses I when he's speaking. These friends are going to be using my rifles and to save cost on ammo, I'm thinking of putting bullets with only one side in their cartridges. HOW ABOUT US ALL GO OUT AND HAVE SOME FUN. ONE THING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT OUR GROUP IS THAT WE NEVER EXAGERATE THE TRUTH.
Mashburn
David a. Cogburn
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Target 2 I thought i’d Give myself som chance and fired 5 from a sitting position.Not as comfortable as I remember got twisted up a bit.
Bugger that shot the last 5 kneeling with post support.
still can’t see where I was shooting.
ha
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Gave up and shot last rabbit with standing pot shooting some at head rest at body.
may do better next time.ha Still not too bad for me but not good as I was 35 years ago!
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Try out a few paper patched bullets I think there in the rules
bullet 308466 150 grn at aprox 1600 fps with paper saturated with 50/50 be/vas.
experimental with lube. Re sighted from pb load and let it rip.
Well not so good as I thought I should do.
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Next some real loads aprox 1900 fps pped 308466 with notepad paper dipped lubed in 50/50 bw/vas sized 0.311"
only had 10 rounds for experimental grouping and I over compensated for he increase in velocity and then wound it up maybe a couple too many clicks.
But they shot nice and the wrap seemed to come off the core better at this pressure.
So what could go wrong? Me of course. All off shots were my own doing.
good fun thou anyway.
Hope to see what the U.S. team come up with
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After seeing these targets, I am not sure I even want to attempt to shoot mine. You guys are too good.....
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Greetings,
Well, bunny #3, a WHOPPING 34. I shot this with the .45 CVA Kentucky, patched round ball, off-hand, and I think the Kentucky Windage won, even though it was a calm day. Sure am glad the ears stand up. I need to invest in a lot of practice holding the rifle so I don't sway in the breeze like a reed in a hurricane. I have decided my next venture will be sitting with the ML, a lot of getting up and down and "stuff" that goes with swabbing bore between shots, loading, etc., etc., etc. These were with a round ball. I tried a maxi-ball on another target, but that is another story. The best I can say is the new knife a friend gave me cut the patches really clean. It was a nice day, got up to the low 40's while shooting. The rumor is that Spring really is on the way, attested to by neighbor finally seeing some robins in her yard.
TK
P.S. Bohica793, my maxi balls would not stay on a sheet of typing paper at 25 yards, hope you get 10 shots to stay on paper at 50. The same can be said for my cast .30 caliber without gas checks, the best place to be for those is behind the bunny, even at 25 yards. I managed 8 of 10 on the practice target, but at least the other two stayed on a very large box.
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hey jeff ... at longer distances ... do you hold over or under ?? ...
ken
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wimilkman
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pat i.
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Tom Acheson
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Aaron
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MarkinEllensburg
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Ed Harris
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BRatigan
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mashburn
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porthos
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MP1886
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