I'll have to watch/listen to the video in the morning, don't want to wake the family up.
Shawn...2 shots, 2 hits, total distance of the
2 shots was four feet!
I'm busting brush in the island of trees, I have the outside edge near the field, just plain nasty. Bust one bunny out early, he goes behind us. As I near then end of the push Jamie, who is a stander says, "Hey Dave, there's a bunny in that pile in front of you, I've missed him twice already." I say ok and approach the pile. I put my bow down and start on the pile, sure enough out comes a bunny running away from me to my right past Jamie. Jamie shoot two more times at the slow moving bunny, which goes to another pile and disappears. (We would later find hair on one of Jamie's arrows). I tell Jamie to stay at one end of the pile, and I work around to the right and to the rear of the pile. Hmmmm, no fresh tracks coming out.....I look closer and see where they just seem to stop. Now I get into the pile, I see a small hole in the snow where the tracks end, and when I look in I can just see a bit of fur from the rabbits tail. Here's where it gets interesting....I back off and put my bow down, now Jamie is saying what are you doing....I tell him I see the rabbit in the hole and I'm going to kill him, he says how, with a knife? I say nope. You see, it's so thick there that I can't draw a bow, so I dig into my fanny pack for my pruners, and I proceed to cut enough brush out of the way so that I can shoot. Mind you now, this entire time I am standing two feet from this rabbit in the hole. So I finish my pruning, then I reach into my pocket for my camera, now Jamie is beside himself. Now what are you doing he says. I tell him I'm going to take a picture of the rabbit before I shoot him. This is what I see from where I am standing.....
Now the rabbit is in that hole in the high center of the pic, with his nose to the left and his rear to the right.....now I brush a little snow away to give me an aiming point. I pick up my bow, draw, aim and shoot from two feet away through the snow, no movement whatsoever, so to be safe I shoot a second arrow just left of the first. I then reach down, pick up my arrows and there is a bunny neatly skewered by two arrows! If you look close in the picture you can see where I cut the brush out of the way, pruners are a good thing. It is by far the closest kill I've ever made.....I'd like to say it was because of my superior stalking skills!!!!!!
David
Topic: (Final Thankyou!!!)Joan Leonard Memorial Bunny Hunt(2007) (Read 87560 times)
