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Maybe rabbits are bigger these days, and image if the rabbit charges the hunter before he gets 11 rounds off.
@kopenhagen5 wrote:Maybe rabbits are bigger these days, and image if the rabbit charges the hunter before he gets 11 rounds off.
As a child and teenager, I remember my father carried a 12 gauge shot gun around in the ute. He regularly used it to try to shoot deadly brown snakes around the home, atracted by the garden sprinkler dribbling bore water onto the parched lawn in the summer heat. They also appeared the amongst bags of screenings grain left in the paddocks to be collected after harvest for stock and chook feed or next years seed wheat. As the snakes are very fast and move from side to side, he didnt always get them first shot. We would have to carefully remove the bags we where handling as the snake would still be there somewhere.
A stack of perhaps a hundred bags would get progressivly smaller as we loaded them onto the truck, until only a few remained. It was then we would often find the snake and the trusty shot gun would be deployed. I am sure my father would have liked a couple of extra shots in the chamber in case the first shot missed. Once dispatched the snake would be taken home to "show" my mother who had a genuine fobia about snakes. 
Ah the memories of a childhood long forgotten.
