I'm not sure if this should go in the hunting thread or what, but I just shot the leg off a rabbit with a slingshot. It was eating the flowers that I planted YESTERDAY and it pissed me off. I paid a bunch of money for those flowers and spent a lot of time planting them and running drip lines to them from the sprinkler system. I don't own a pellet gun and can't just start shooting guns in my neighborhood... So I grabbed an old $10 slingshot from my survival bag and gave it a try. First shot missed and I don't know by how much. Second shot blew off its front leg. It ran away on three legs and stopped in the middle of my grass. I walked up to it with the intention of killing it, but somehow I missed twice from 4 ft away and I was out of pellets, so I went and grabbed a rock about 3/4inch in diameter and that sure did the trick... it was definitely dead after the rock from point blank. Upon inspection, the little steel pellet tore its front leg completely off about halfway up, so I'm pretty sure a hit to the head or vitals would have killed it pretty quickly.
I'm such a Neandertal.
Last edited by HoneyBadger; 05-07-2014 at 21:31.
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― Russell Kirk, Author of The Conservative Mind
Ha! I already shoveled it into a construction dumpster down the street. I should have thrown it into my neighbor's window well... I've seen them "rescuing" bunnies from their window wells 2 times now and then "releasing them into the wild" (my yard). My neighbors are kinda weird.. Their son is going to grow up to be a pussy.
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"When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law." -Frederic Bastiat
"I am a conservative. Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so. Yet, out of a curious perversity I had rather lose with Socrates, let us say, than win with Lenin."
― Russell Kirk, Author of The Conservative Mind
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I shoot animals in my yard all the time. Why can't you?
"There are no finger prints under water."
I don't really know my neighbors and I don't want them calling the police or panicking because they heard a gunshot at 10pm. I plan on staying in this neighborhood for a while and the last thing I want is pissed off neighbors. Also, it's illegal to discharge a firearm within the city limits and/or within x feet from a road, and/or within x feet from a house, etc. I'd like to keep it on the DL.
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"When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law." -Frederic Bastiat
"I am a conservative. Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so. Yet, out of a curious perversity I had rather lose with Socrates, let us say, than win with Lenin."
― Russell Kirk, Author of The Conservative Mind
Trust me, I wish this weren't a problem... I would love to shoot rabbits and Pdogs from my back porch, but that's not the situation I get to work with right now.
My Feedback
"When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law." -Frederic Bastiat
"I am a conservative. Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so. Yet, out of a curious perversity I had rather lose with Socrates, let us say, than win with Lenin."
― Russell Kirk, Author of The Conservative Mind