Thread: Rabbits and Hares close to houses

.22 subs often pass through rabbits , can bounce and end up hitting the side of buildings 100 meters away. Happens a lot. Keep that in mind and you'll not piss anyone off even it you have informed them before shooting. Communication is key/ Ive shot camping grounds and using the principle of driving round late afternoon and talking to all the campers at home , and putting up signage a few hours before a shoot works wonders. If you have access to a PCP and a thermal use that off a tripod as your walking. If you driving similar rules apply In other words pay particular attention as to where you start and where you finish so to always be shooting away from tents, caravans , houses.

Always be prepared to pass up shooting a rabbit or groups if there is any chance a miss could end up disturbing or harming dwellings or people.. Youll get those rabbits on the next shoot and pick times of year when there are not many tourists or residents around. It amazing just how many people can be out and about after dark.

I have sold many of my fully suppressed 410s for this situation, similar sound to a suppressed 22, good for 20-25 mtrs, just about zero chance of ricochet.

Light and short so easy to handle

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I have done a bit of rabbit work in urban settings.
Notify the police, sometimes they get rung and end up coming out anyway.
Wouldn't bother door knocking neighbors unless there are very few. Reason being as often nowadays if dealing with numbers there will be a few that completely object and can make things rather complicated. Just do a flier type thing.
Put signs at each main entry point, sometimes people think they own the place and just walk on through.
Operate in darkness.
If need be walk around during the day and gps each good shooting location and in the notes you can write safe shooting directions etc.
.22s ricochet like fark. If you can find some of the cci segmented rounds these ricochet a bit less and the fragments will likely do a lot less damage if the do end up hitting something.

Pcp's are made for this work. Expensive to setup but absolutely perfect for the job. I'm happy shooting some of mine out to 120m or more in the right conditions, I also have some set to low power use for around buildings etc and they are seriously quiet!

In terms of the admin side of things if it's near people or likely to get attention I call police comms and log a job with them and I usually have signs out at all entrances to the property. I also work in total darkness with NV and Thermal etc. and haven't had a single eyebrow raised by neighbors working like this. Last night I was 2 hours (and many Rabbits) into a job and walked past 3 dudes in the neighbors back yard chatting around a fire pit, yelled out to them so as to not surprise them and had a bit of a chat to them, they had no idea I'd been there working at all.

As Mintie, points out with a decent PCP you can adjust the power & pellet to suit whatever you are doing which is very handy.
NV scope has 5 different settings, different reticles, the rifle has 7 power settings. ex - one of mine is set to 8 metres (Pigeons) with reduced power with a quick to use reticle, in a empty horse stable, at dusk or just after, snap shooting is very effective & minimises blowing holes threw the iron roof.
They are a great Tool.