I did a little hunting yesterday for about an hour or so early in the AM before I had to work at TopGun-Airguns. I got 3 nice tender bunnies with my "Pneu" rifle. It's an FX .22 Compact M4 in copper, with a 700cc bottle and a DonnyFL suppressor.
Most shots were at about 50-60 yards. As you can see no bruising on the bodies, as I only take headshots. I do this for 2 reasons:
A) it's more humane as the rabbit never knows what hit them. The interesting thing is NERVES. We've all heard "ah, they're only kicking like that because of nerves". Yesterday's hunt proved that in spades. Shot a bunny in the brain. Started jumping like you couldn't believe. Felt bad for it, walked right up to it and put TWO more .22 pellets of about 34 FPE right into its brain. STILL JUMPED for a couple of seconds. I guess the brain is getting all kinds of final signals crossed up, but it was surely not cognizant of what wsas ging on with that much brain damage.
B) Bruising of the meat. Shots to the heart/lungs cause the rabbit to live longer (and I don't like most animals to suffer). Remember: Besides the physical damage/trauma/shock, the method of death is either suffocation from lack of O2 from the lungs, or the heart not pumping blood to the lungs, etc.. Since death isn't "instant", the heart is pumping blood to the wounded area. This causes a hematoma that IMHO ruins the meat. It takes me MUCH longer to clean out the Hematoma that becomes a clot vs. a nice head shot.
From the rabbits I'll make a really tasty stew. I'm not bragging, as I got the recipe off the internet, but BOY IS IT DELICIOUS!!! Carrots, celery, potatoes, some wine (and I don't even drink) make for a REALLY good meal. My employees love it. The picture is from our loading area at TopGun-Airguns. The employees at TopGun-Airguns eat very well, as I often cook (especially in the summer) a great Italian spaghetti meal, or hamburgers, etc.. In the winter I'll make stews. Come for the employment, stay for the food!!!!! We'll serve to our customers too.
Post a request below if you'd like to know my recipes (either for the rabbits, or genuine Italian Gravy (NO! It's NOT sauce, despite what my wife and half my friends say!!!! The other half call it Gravy like it should be called
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Read further below for more info and HOW YOU CAN GET A FREE TIN OF PELLETS
As for the RIFLE
1) The rifle is an FX M4 Copper COMPACT with a 500mm barrel, but still shoots at 900 f/s. I had to slow it down from about 1000 f/s with the Power Wheel.
2) The bottle is a 700cc (the one shown is TopGun's 250 BAR Bottle, but I'm going to switch it out to a TopGun 700cc x 300 Bar.
3) I get over 200 full power shots on a fill!
4) This puppy is QUIET! Thank you Donny! Who can name the suppressor?
5) The pistol is shown is one of my EDC, and I include it because I LOVE 45 ACP's. Can you name it?
Whoever comes up with an AWESOME name that we choose, gets a FREE TIN of pellets of their choice sent to their home (in the 50 U.S. States, or territories that I can ship via U.S. Mail)
Let's here you ideas for the name.
Inserting shameless photo of my ugly mug into this post here
Most shots were at about 50-60 yards. As you can see no bruising on the bodies, as I only take headshots. I do this for 2 reasons:
A) it's more humane as the rabbit never knows what hit them. The interesting thing is NERVES. We've all heard "ah, they're only kicking like that because of nerves". Yesterday's hunt proved that in spades. Shot a bunny in the brain. Started jumping like you couldn't believe. Felt bad for it, walked right up to it and put TWO more .22 pellets of about 34 FPE right into its brain. STILL JUMPED for a couple of seconds. I guess the brain is getting all kinds of final signals crossed up, but it was surely not cognizant of what wsas ging on with that much brain damage.
B) Bruising of the meat. Shots to the heart/lungs cause the rabbit to live longer (and I don't like most animals to suffer). Remember: Besides the physical damage/trauma/shock, the method of death is either suffocation from lack of O2 from the lungs, or the heart not pumping blood to the lungs, etc.. Since death isn't "instant", the heart is pumping blood to the wounded area. This causes a hematoma that IMHO ruins the meat. It takes me MUCH longer to clean out the Hematoma that becomes a clot vs. a nice head shot.
From the rabbits I'll make a really tasty stew. I'm not bragging, as I got the recipe off the internet, but BOY IS IT DELICIOUS!!! Carrots, celery, potatoes, some wine (and I don't even drink) make for a REALLY good meal. My employees love it. The picture is from our loading area at TopGun-Airguns. The employees at TopGun-Airguns eat very well, as I often cook (especially in the summer) a great Italian spaghetti meal, or hamburgers, etc.. In the winter I'll make stews. Come for the employment, stay for the food!!!!! We'll serve to our customers too.
Post a request below if you'd like to know my recipes (either for the rabbits, or genuine Italian Gravy (NO! It's NOT sauce, despite what my wife and half my friends say!!!! The other half call it Gravy like it should be called
)Read further below for more info and HOW YOU CAN GET A FREE TIN OF PELLETS
As for the RIFLE
1) The rifle is an FX M4 Copper COMPACT with a 500mm barrel, but still shoots at 900 f/s. I had to slow it down from about 1000 f/s with the Power Wheel.
2) The bottle is a 700cc (the one shown is TopGun's 250 BAR Bottle, but I'm going to switch it out to a TopGun 700cc x 300 Bar.
3) I get over 200 full power shots on a fill!
4) This puppy is QUIET! Thank you Donny! Who can name the suppressor?
5) The pistol is shown is one of my EDC, and I include it because I LOVE 45 ACP's. Can you name it?
HOW TO WIN A FREE TIN OF PELLETS
Can you think of a name for this rifle? I was thinking Compact Hunter, but IIRC that name is taken.Whoever comes up with an AWESOME name that we choose, gets a FREE TIN of pellets of their choice sent to their home (in the 50 U.S. States, or territories that I can ship via U.S. Mail)
Let's here you ideas for the name.
Inserting shameless photo of my ugly mug into this post here
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