Bunny thumpin'

[R. Ellis]

Anyone here hunt with a knife? I was thinking of forging out a set of rebar torpedo's and getting back into it now that my boy is old enough to go.

Kinda quite over here. Everyone out enjoying the fall weather?

 

[7bcain]

I am in Central Texas and the weather is perfect right now. I don't hunt (least of all with throwing knives) but I have many targets for archery, knifethrowing and blowguns. I can imagine throwing a knife at a moving target is quite difficult and I have been throwing for a long time. Number one you will be making alot more movement (and noise) when throwing a knife as opposed to pulling a trigger or loosing an arrow. Your target will more than like be high tailing it by the time you are poised to make the throw. If you do hit the moving target there is a small chance the point will be the first to make contact. You might stun the prey however if you have a heavy enough thrower. Good luck.

7Cain

 

[R. Ellis]

I never throw, or shoot at a running rabbit. For one thing I don't like throwing away my stickers (or flinging away arrows) and if I have a gun I don't like picking shot out of my teeth. I catch em' sittin and try to graze their head with just a few buckshot. Jumpin bunnies is best done with a dog. There is a reason for using short legged beagles to hunt rabbits. The dog cannot catch the rabbit. The nature of the rabbit is to lead the dog out, lose him to another scent and make a big circle and return to where he jumped. When he jumps the hunter stops and waits for the rabbit to come back, then he plugs him. When solo hunting, for every bunny you jump you will pass five almost close enough to step on. Taking it slow, watching for trails and potential lies and look for their eyes are the keys to catching them sitting. Direct eye contact will sometimes spook em' so look away, mark where they are and move out of their direct line of sight and to a distance of around two revolutions and let fly. I must admit the thrill of watching them fly 5' up out of the roost and take off is just as thrilling as pinning them squeeling to the ground.

 

[R. Ellis]

Did I gross everyone out? It's not much different than hunting with a bunny stick.

 

[R. Ellis]

I had a chance to get out to the forge and it took about 20 minutes to hammer one out for my youngin' to practice with.

 

[sak_collector]

I must admit the thrill of watching them fly 5' up out of the roost and take off is just as thrilling as pinning them squeeling to the ground.

Ah, pinning them squealing to the ground, how nice.

I like hunting, although it has been some time since I have done it. First off, I feel a hunters primary concern should be to do everything possible to make it a quick and clean kill. This is not always possible, but the animal should be killed as quickly as possible.

There will be times when one will squeal due to a bad shot or bad luck, again your job is to kill as quickly as possible.

To get a "thrill" out of pinning them "squealing" to the ground is sick. You need a different hobby unless you intend to teach your kid the "fun and excitement of a thrashing about, pinned, squealing animal".

You give a bad name to hunters.

 

[Bobby Branton]

I agree with Sak Collector. I used to hunt a lot, but not so much these days.
If you are going to hunt an animal, you need to get a clean kill. Please lets drop this thread. Lets get back to knife throwing at targets other than animals.

Bobby