Author Topic: .17 best bet for rabbit (Read 2595 times)

jon164 · « **Reply #30 on:** September 20, 2005, 01:18:10 PM »

I have eaten squirrel before and I wasnt impressed. Rabits on the other hand is a different story!

Squirrels are mostly pests on my property so I treat them with extreme predjudice.

They did alot of damage in my attic since then any squirrel I see is popped and buried

JPSaxMan · « **Reply #31 on:** September 20, 2005, 02:16:55 PM »

That should be illegal (maybe it is)...like killing deer and leaving them just because they got into your cornfield...unreal :evil:

mag shooter · « **Reply #32 on:** September 20, 2005, 04:35:15 PM »

Quote from: jon164

I have eaten squirrel before and I wasnt impressed. Rabits on the other hand is a different story!

Squirrels are mostly pests on my property so I treat them with extreme predjudice.

They did alot of damage in my attic since then any squirrel I see is popped and buried

If it is a matter of nuisance, then spend a little time fortifying your attic. If you choose to shoot them,surely you have a neighbor that would eat them, rather than letting them waste.

jon164 · « **Reply #33 on:** September 22, 2005, 05:01:56 AM »

neighbors don't want them either they see them as pests as well.

By the way I am not hunting on public land wasting game others would use.

It's funny that you guys get mad when I just shoot squirrels and leave them.

I see posts here where guys kill hundreds of prairie dogs,crows, pigeons, turtles and groundhogs but don't eat them.

Come on fellas just I'm just ridding my own personal property of pest that have cost me thousands of dollars in the repair of my home.

Don't worry I wont be hunting on your land just my own yard

JPSaxMan · « **Reply #34 on:** September 22, 2005, 11:37:14 AM »

*Bites tounge and nearly bites tounge off*

:evil:

mag shooter · « **Reply #35 on:** September 22, 2005, 12:25:12 PM »

jon, I am not mad at all, I just offered a suggestion. Yes , when I was much younger I killed a few things that I didn't eat. For years now. coyotes are all I kill that I do not eat. I wouldn't kill them if they would leave the small game alone and just eat mice. Well nothing ever really goes to waste in the woods, worms got to eat too.

daddywpb · « **Reply #36 on:** September 25, 2005, 09:41:05 AM »

I have recently switched from a .22 Mag to the .17 HMR for rabbits. We hunt in a sugar cane field, and a stray bullet can cause damage to the farm equipment. The Hornady 17 grain V-Max bullet vaporizes on contact with anything. I have never had a wounded rabbit since switching to the .17. A head or shoulder shot drops them instantly and leaves the hind quarters and backstraps intact.

TH · « **Reply #37 on:** October 19, 2005, 11:38:38 AM »

I can't believe you prefer rabbit over squirrel. I have eaten many types of wild game (rabbit, squirrel, deer, pheasant, quail, dove, duck, goose, elk, etc..) and find squirrel to be the best tasting over all. Cook it in a crock pot with dried onion soup and cream of mushroom soup and I could eat it for every meal.

TH

QuailKiller · « **Reply #38 on:** October 29, 2005, 04:04:47 PM »

I think maybe we need to clarify which type of squirrels we are talking about. Where I live we don't have the big gray squirrels like they do in the East, we just have fox squirrels. Where I come from if you get caught eating a fox squirrel you will be dubbed the biggest redneck in all of Idaho. I know because my cousin ate one and thats what happened.

I think it just matters what you like. People kill hundreds of prairie dogs in a day and just leave them there, and I never hear anybody complaining. I killed a woodchuck last spring (with a 17hmr) and ate it, and I thought it tasted just fine. When I told people about it they thought I was a sicko and that it was grossed thing they ever heard of. Why...heck if I know, but the next woodchuck I see is going to get eated, but chances are the next squirrel I shoot will not.

S.S. · « **Reply #39 on:** February 07, 2006, 04:49:50 AM »

I have not found the 17 M2 to be that destructive on squirrels.
the 17 HMR is a different story though. It will separate the head from the body. I know this is an unpopular statement but I too have at times seen squirrels as vermin. but this was due to the fact that they are extremely
destructive to Pecan orchards (one of which I used to own).
I would normally try to find someone who wanted them, but if I could not,
I would still have to shoot them to save a cash crop. Crows and Bluejays
are even worse than Tree rats and there were times that the orchard looked like a battle ground after a days shooting (casualties everywhere).
I hold a serious grudge agains Squirrels, Crows and Jays because of the money they cost in lost crops.

S.S. · « **Reply #40 on:** February 07, 2006, 04:52:34 AM »

I have not found the 17 M2 to be that destructive on squirrels.
the 17 HMR is a different story though. It will separate the head from the body. I know this is an unpopular statement but I too have at times seen squirrels as vermin. but this was due to the fact that they are extremely
destructive to Pecan orchards (one of which I used to own).
I would normally try to find someone who wanted them, but if I could not,
I would still have to shoot them to save a cash crop. Crows and Bluejays
are even worse than Tree rats and there were times that the orchard looked like a battle ground after a days shooting (casualties everywhere).
I hold a serious grudge agains Squirrels, Crows and Jays because of the money they cost in lost crops.