Got to my club's rifle range early on Saturday to set up for a match, found the 100 yard range being grazed by rabbits. There were three of them, but before I could get my camera out, two had headed for the brush....

Our club has over thirty acres, no hunting is allowed, so we have plenty of game, deer, wild turkey and rabbits in abundance.

Gives a new meaning to the term "Free Range Rabbit"....

Too bad--cottontails are deeee-licious!!

Got 2 of 'em at my range too.
Gotta be deaf or sumpthin'.
My son and I were at the 35-yard pistol range yesterday and 2 young ones were 15 feet away from us all the way though about 250 rounds like it was nothin'. Must be veterans of that scenario.

I can imagine them saying to each other in Rabbit-ese, "Y'know Orlo, that li'l fella's got eyes like an indian with the way he's-a-drillin' that bull but that ol' fatboy's got a flinch that just about shakes 'is hat offa his head. They oughtta make 'im keep a flintlock next to his bed. Nice 617, though"

We have "free range beef" around here.

I have the exact same problem dave b. Shoot in my father's pasture, and the cows are too dang nosey. Have had to scare them off, as they will walk right up to the targets to check them out. Gunfire doesn't affect them in the least. Other times they don't even care and will stay eating or just laying while guns are being shot.

"Mark" the wabbit with a 22 through the ear.

Leave the bovine ears alone, too expensive.

Many years back at the Trap range I frequent we had a mess of seagulls in the area. The farm land behind the trap houses had been plowed and the gulls were having a feast with field mice, grubs, worms etc.

One of the gulls swooped in....one of our shooters popped it with a trap load...depositing it right off the Clubhouse steps.

Out walks a new shooter...Guy who just started to show up. Seems he worked for the F&G as a Warden. Wrote the shooter a cite for $300+.

Apparently seagulls are protected??

FN in MT

That's a good way to start making friends.

We had to call a cease fire and run a young buck off our 50 yd range several times this fall. I'm thinking that young guy was pretty smart since no one would even think of taking a shot at him.

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Why duck?? It's a 9mm!

We're lousy with rabbits this year, too, what with all the rain and high grass.

Seems each autumn I see some whopper pronghorn bucks near our range. Wish I saw them that often with a tag in my pocket when I'm out in the field!

Our old range [Hellgate Rifle Club] had a herd of Rocky Mountain Sheep that you had to drive off the range at certain times of the day.

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Front sight and squeeze

Here I was thinking the antelope that wandered down range during a three gun match in Pueblo CO a few years ago was unique. Then I read this thread.

JD

I guess he took a tern for the worse.



I know they are protected but damned if I can find out why. Just oceangoing pigeons in my book.