knives and hunting

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40-50 bucks on amazon

Rabbits are easy to skin, you really don't even have to have a knife. You can just pull/tear the skin off.

I would recommend a .22 for shooting them. I think a 223 is overkill. I have no experience with air rifles

>>967248
A .22lr is the best for wabbits if you plan on having enough left of them to eat. You can buy a Mora knife cheap and they're fine for skinning. For such a thin skinned animal all you really need to do is cut the fur on the top of the back then pull it free or if you want to keep the fur cut off the head and peel the pelt off like a sock, it comes off rather easy either way, not much use of a blade is needed for them.

>>967286

This.

Fellow Ausfag here, you can literally pull off a rabbit skin like a sock. Just buy a cheap Muela or even a SAK or something.

>>967248
Get 1250 fps break barrel, scope it and get good at snap shooting. Its easy enough

>>967248
>>967548

i have shot rabbits in head and neck wtih 22 LR and air rifles, absolutely fucking useless.

i would want a centre fire rifle, maybe a .300 or .308 for balsting rabbits.

>>967804
What the fuck? A .22 to the head will drop any rabbit. A .308 will take away half its body. You obviously dont shoot.

.22lr is plenty to kill a rabbit. I have a .17 hmr, that alone destroys rabbits. Stay in that range. .308 is insane. Will blow the rabbits to bits. I have experience hunting jackrabbits. Shot one with a .223. Barely any rabbit left. Stay small caliber. People saying use a .308 baka, obviously no knowledge.

I mean dude a slingshot with a magnum band is enough to kill a rabbit with a glass fucking marble.

>>967248

>air rifle
>for rabbits

a 12 foot-pound .22 cal, or .177 with something like H&N baracuda hunter extreme will do the job.

A .22 cal walther terrus with 15 grain domed pellets will take a rabbit at 50 yards.


>800 fps
>1250 fps

when are you people going to learn that fps is a meaningless number unless acompanied by pellet weight.

A typical .177 pellet weighs 8.44 grains. A .22 pellet is around 15.89 grains. Alloy pellets (which is what wallmart specials use to get those high fps values) are under 5 grains.

Also - skirted projectiles (like pellets) suck at transsonic speed.

A .22 cal, 15.89 grain pellet with a muzzle velocity of 600 fps will do the job on a rabbit just fine (you need around 8 fpe delivered to take them down).

>>967248
>question two
Something like http://www.airgundepot.com/umarex-gauntlet-synthetic.html would do fine.

>>967248
Aren't rabbits considered an invasive species in Australia? If they're way overpopulated and fucking up the native species, I can see blasting them with a .308 and covering a 300m radius from a single spot. It's a shame not to eat what you kill though. Anything over .22lr and it won't be good eating. Even with .22lr, I would stick to subsonic solid points.

>>968017
How can you eat something after you shoot lead into without getting lead cancer

>>968026
Just pull out the bullet and change your tampon

>>968031
Doesnt it get all through the thing though

>>968032
No. And most of the time, the bullet passes all the way through.

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>>967804

Are you retarded?

>>968037
Sweet

>>967804
I don't believe you

>>968026
You don't eat the bullet, and even if you did, it would just pass through your system. It isn't soluble lead which is the type that causes lead poisoning (usually from industrial applications) even if it was, the odd bullet wouldn't be enough to cause harmful levels of lead.

>>967896
Except glass marbles are shithouse ammunition, fire them from any powerful sort of slingshot and they hook left or right after a short distance. Metal ball bearings or small lead ball sinkers are the way to go.

Also wondering where OP is hunting rabbit that they aren't infected with Myxamatosis or whatever other disease we've been baiting them with for the last 50 years.

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.22 every time. Usually when you shoot a rabbit it pops up in the air, I like to try and shoot it again in the air

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>>968079
And as for knives, any sharp hunting knife will do, something with a nice curve on it. Here's my favorite

>>968067
Oh for sure. It's just what I had at the time and it worked beautifully.

>>968079
I should also add, if you get a .22 and want it to be semiauto, tube fed is far better than magazine fed, they dont jam as much

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>>967248
Gerber EAB @9USD is all you need for rabbits. Change the 20 cent blade every hundred rabbits.

For the same price, you could get a basic Mora or Opinel. They're much nicer if you can sharpen okay.

>>967893
.17 hmr has bigger load than .22lr. So .17hmr is actually faster and more effective round. 308. is fine, it won't blow away rabbits, it's needlessly powerfull tho. In finland it's against law to hunt rabbits with .22lr since it's so underpowered.

>>970902
That's total bullshit, but if people want to listen to you, they'll find out for themselves. .17 Hornady is a great little round, but not if your gonna eat the rabbits you kill with it. The bullet weighs half as much as 22lr, but once you get past 2000fps like the .17, it's hydrostatic shock that does all the mutilation. If your country says .22lr is too weak, call bullshit on that. That's idiocy on a national scale.

>>970902
Norway also restricts to use of lead shot for all shotgun hunting, as well as limiting the cartridges a shotgun may carry to two. They allow shotguns for rabbits. Have you ever shot a rabbit with steel #6shot past 40m? It doesn't kill them. They die slowly in a hole hours later. Great legislative morality Norway!

>>970928
I used to shoot rabbits with 410 birdshot all the time, until I shot the whole face off of one and it ran off into the woods wimpering and faceless. A .22 is way easier

>>970902
Norway limits .22lr for hunting because silencers are legal there. With subsonic .23lr ammo and a silencer, all that you can hear is the firing pin drop and the bullet impact. Hunters that the law can't hear, they can't catch. This law is to reduce poaching and out of season hunting. It's not about being humane.

>>970933
.410s in the hands of young hunters have killed alot of rabbits. They've also wounded more than all other gauges combined. You won't believe this until you look it up yourself, but a .410 slug has less ftlb energy than a +P 9mm or the average .40 S&W round.

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.22lr chest shot.

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.17hmr chest shot.

>>970970
>>970971
The outcome depends on shot placement too though. If you look in >>968079 the top ones heart exploded when the .22 hollowpoint hit it, while the gutshots in the other two left nearly no blood or trace at all

>>970977
What I was trying to illustrate, is that .17hmr is too much for rabbits that you plan to eat. None of your .22lr shots mutilated the rabbit like a .17hmr does. If you hit a running rabbit in the butt with .17hmr, you lose more than half the meat. My point was that .17hmr is great for pest control, but way to much for rabbits you plan to eat. Even .22lr Stingers ruin the meat or spill guts if you don't get a headshot.

>>970942
Exept Finnish law states the hunting calibers by it's power, not by decibels, or if you poach or anything else. Silencers are also legal in finland, yet I have never heard regulations made because poaching problems.

>>970910
>http://www.finlex.fi/en/laki/kaannokset/1993/en19930666.pdf

The bullet scoring energy of a rifled bullet firearm to be used for the shooting of a game
animal measured from the muzzle must be at least 100 joules (E 0 > 100 J).
(2) In addition to the provision of subsection 1: 1) if a weapon is used for the shooting of red fox, farmed arctic fox, badger, otter, raccoon
dog, raccoon, nutria, mountain hare, brown hare, capercaillie, black grouse, or goose, the
cartridge bullet must weigh at least 2.5 grams and the scoring energy when measured 100
metres from the muzzle must be at least 200 joules (E 100 > 200 J);

I actually was bit off, you may hunt wild rabbit with .22lr, for hare or brown hare you need bigger caliber. With 22. hornet and 17HMR you may hunt hare and brown hare.

>>971493
Legislative morality makes people feel better, not hares. If you chart that on an energy to bodymass scale, you have to use .375H&H for 100# deer, and a Howitzer for elephant.

>>971499

sooo

elephant rifle for deer, and a parrot rifle for elephants?

makes sense...

>>971493
By this law, you cannot use .17hmr. The bullet weight would be far less than 2.5 grams. Are these laws even enforced?

>>971493
I would just handload .22 hornet down to 1000fps. I'm pretty sure Finnish game wardens don't carry bullet chronographs.

>>971499
Just stating what the law here is, personally I think it's bullshit.

>>971510
http://www.finlex.fi/fi/laki/ajantasa/1993/19930666

>"1) kettua, tarhattua naalia, mäyrää, saukkoa, supikoiraa, pesukarhua, rämemajavaa, metsäjänistä, rusakkoa, metsoa, teertä ja hanhea saa ampua vain aseella, jonka patruunan luodin paino on vähintään 2,5 grammaa ja osumaenergia 100 metrin päässä piipun suusta mitattuna vähintään 200 joulea tai jonka patruunan luodin osumaenergia on luodin painosta riippumatta piipun suusta mitattuna vähintään 300 joulea;"

(google translate cos' lazy)
>"1) fox, farmed signal, badger, otter, raccoon, raccoon, coypu, wild rabbit, brown hare, capercaillie, teertä and geese may shoot only a gun, a cartridge bullet weight is at least 2.5 grams and the scoring energy of 100 meters from the muzzle, measured at least 200 joules or a bullet hit the energy of the cartridge has a bullet weight, regardless of the muzzle, measured at least 300 joules;"

Funny thing; in english version they didn't bother to translate that in hunting class 1, bullet weight doesn't matter if the bullet has at least 300 joules at 100 metres.

And no, noone enforces the hunting laws, because no-one have right to check your weapons or anything on your person, only police has that right and they are in the cities. Exception being the moose hunting partys who may kick you out of the party if you don't play along the rules.

>>971519
Sounds complicated. From what I've heard, Finns have excellent hunting ethics ingrained into your culture. Your hunters police themselves, which is a great thing if it works.

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Dont cheap out too much on knives, you will never regret spending a little more.

Victorianox hunter pro is around $100 AUD and is a great general prupose hunting knife, i use mine on rabbits, ducks and even deer all the time