Hunting Rabbits With A Recurve!

I've hunted them with a low power recurve as a kid, but it was very hard as the arrow moved so slow. Later I got a compound with no sights and learned to hunt with that. Rabbits were fairly easy. Ground squirrels (gophers) were much harder; they were generally more wary, much smaller and much faster. You usually had to aim between the gopher and his hole and he would jump into the arrow as he dove for his hole. Actually aiming at the little fellow almost always resulted in him being long gone by the time the arrow arrived!
 
My Dad and I used to walk pastureland for gophers with our recurve bows when I was a kid... I remember seeing him whomp quite a few, but of course I was a once-a-day "lucky shot" kind of guy. Then I found the joys of .22LR with my cousin and we spend MANY a sunny day sitting on the leeward side of a hill picking off critters.

Thing is, I've shot deer and all manner of creatures with a bow and arrow - and always recurve - but I've never shot at a fast-moving rabbit and been in th same postal code! That guy's not too shabby!

-M
 
I used to shoot gophers with my compound bow in Saskatoon's north industrial area...until two SPD officers had me paged and explained that I couldn't do that anymore ;).
 
When we were kids I hunted rabbits with a recurve. I did manage to bag several, but it cost me a ton of arrows that slid under the sod. Also I still have a scar on my left hand, where the cheap wooden arrows I was using broke right on the bow. Went in above the knuckle and out below, somehow it damaged nothing but hide, and pride.
 
I took a couple of bunnies a year with my recurve when I was a kid. I quit when my old man insisted I pay for my own arrows.

Loads of fun in the winter.
 
I've shot dozens of rabbits and grouse over the years using a Checkmate 80# bow and full length 2219 arrows with the flat slip on black rubber tips that are about 3/4" wide never tried shooting a running rabbit though...

the fellow was pretty good...
 
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