30 years full bore pistol practise before the enforced "retiral" should help.
There's something about that black powder sound that's really satisfying.
Right - where's my pocket money gone? I want a gun and range membership and I want it yesterday!
Have you considered using a catapult? You can get close to 18ft/lb with a good hunters catapult, and pretty accurate too (and it'll fit in your pocket). Same rules apply regarding permissions too, and bare in mind, a catapult isn't supposed to be your primary method of hunting.
Do it - we still shoot pistols too
Muzzle Loading Revolvers - the best fun you can have standing up
Mine.
Lots of bang, lots of smoke, lots of fun.
If you can get that close to a rabbit, walking thru that sort of noisy terrain, it has myxomatosis and needs to be despatched. Its having enough problems without being shot at or having sticks thrown at it! Jumping/stamping on its head is easiest method or the neck snap if you know what you're doing, but I always find that when you see the state of their eyes you will not want to be picking it up!
Totally wrong.
Bunnies in that situation will sit tight until the last second and then take off like a rocket. Myxi rabbits don't bother to move.
We bolt bunnies every day and have seen no myxi since early October.
The dog, two years old and fit as a flea, hasn't got a hope in hell of catching them.
what kind of pistol would kill a rabbit at 10 mtrs
Not wrong. There's alot of rabbits round my way (arable land) and they don't sit tight. At the first sight or sound of you they're off. The myxi ones move if they hear you, just not at much pace. There's a Myxi outbreak in my part of Suffolk at the mo and there's loads of them. I saw four of them in a 20min walk at Alton resovoir yesterday. 3 dead, one alive (until the dog got it). My dog can catch them, but then he's a whippet and bred for it.