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    I have found with subs that they generally dont frighten after the first shot. The noise they hear to is usually the impact of the bullet into the ground (whther it passes through a rabbit first or not....) If the shot hits something behind them, then more often that not they will run away from that sound which will be towards the shooter. this tells me they have not heard the shot from the rifle itself or if they have they identified it as where the impact was.

    I suspect a large part of this is the sound of the shot being fired is travelling at close to the same speed s the projectile and as both arrive close to the same moment, the location of the impact masks the location of the source....
    Intelligence has its limits, but it appears that Stupidity knows no bounds......

 

 

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