Would you shoot a bunny for fun???

When I was a kid my neighbour had an air rifle. It had a telescopic sight and it all seemed very grown up to me aged about eight or nine. He liked to shoot animals for fun. The fun for him was hitting the target which affirmed his skill in shooting accurately. He would get upset if it was not a clean headshot for two reasons. Reason 1) he had been off target and Reason 2) He had left the animal to potentially suffer before it died.

One day he let me have a go, probably thinking I couldn't hit a barn door with a baseball from 10 yards. I did not even think about the animal which was a small flying blip in the telescopic sight. As it moved into the cross hair I pulled the trigger and saw the flight halted and the black blip plummet. My neighbour patted me on the back and said 'nice shooting'. I just felt cold though. I had just killed something. It didn't seem so difficult to line something up in a crosshair and pull a trigger. I remember feeling sad for at least a couple of days thinking how that bird could still be flying and sucking juicy worms out of the ground.

No, i wouldn't shoot a bunny for fun.

peace

c20

 

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You shot a bird IN FLIGHT with a pellet gun? Wow. That WAS "nice shooting"!

 

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I wouldn't

 

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It was a Webley .177 air rifle. The tin of pellets had a picture of a wasp on it. Very powerful for its time if I remember. It was my neighbours pride and joy anyway.

I joined a shooting club (paper targets) when I was twelve but couldn't afford an air gun so had to use theirs. They were quite old an innacurate so you had to adjust the line of fire to compensate for the anomalies in the barrel. I saved and saved for my own new gun but by the time i had enough cash I had gotten into fishing. I quit the shooting club and bought some carp rods and bite alarms. Still had all my fishing stuff until I got married. Then the fishing stuff seemed to be surplus to requirement (well that's what she told me anyhoo

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These days I play pool. i LOVE shooting pool.

c20

 

Would you shoot a bunny that was eating your carrots????

 

Depends how dependant I was on the carrots. If I was that dependant on the carrots then the bunny would prolly make a nice addition to the meal.

peace

c20

 

I would drain some rabbit blood and shoot it up. Then I would have all the power of the rabbit I could see really well, run fast, and breed prolifically.

 

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not really, its quite natural for creatures to kill things for sport. moreover, what is unnatural? are humans somehow not a product/part of, a natural world?

 

Well we are part of the natural world, but just because you can do something does not mean you should.

I prefer that people kill things because there is somewhat a need to, like foxhunting is not so bad because you can establish some sort of motive, the enviroment for example i'm not so sure about the individuals involved but that is a different matter.

Same with rats, i don't think you should kill a rat just because you want to, however you may have to terminate many for local or countrywide enviromental reasons.

Illnesses are another reason, rabits for example can get myxomatosis, the only animal in fact.

 

just saying "beryl" that becuase someone has sudden urges means absolutly nothing about their mental stability. here is a poem i wrote in high school, and actually got it published there too.
a fluffy white cottontail
bobbing up and down
the rabbit hops under a deep blue sky
a sky with the clouds unlike the rabbits tail
i look at the clouds and the rabbit
and i cannot tell which is more beautiful
i think the rabbit is
i think its eyes are like glistening rubies
rubies that reflect the deep blue sky
tinting the sky purple in its eyes
i dont think there is a cost of fur that is purer or whiter
it looks so soft
probaly soft when you touch it
probaly could feel its heart beat when you touch it
the beat of its heart
wonder how it feels in my hand if i crushed it
the melody of the hearts beat against my palm
the pulses tempo under my thumb
the shudder beneath my hands pressure
the warm fluid blood between my fingers
the remnants falling to my feet
the beautiful rabbit hopping
its heart is out of reach

this basically says that you can have thoughts and wonders, but it says nothing about what your mind state is...

 

no i would not shoot it atall, or any other animal for fun, but if im out in the wild stranded and im hungry and i see little thumper there i would skin his ass and cook a stew.

 

and that poem has issues on some other level i dunno, peace...

 

Yeah, sure, why not? What the fuck have they done for me? Nothing. Worthless creatures.

 

For fun? No. But rabbit tastes damned good!
c20H25N3o,
You were sad that the bird would not live to fly another day, but not that the fish would not live to swim another day?
Did you catch and release only, and not feel bad about running a hook through another animal's mouth? Or was it that you ate the fish, but would not eat bird?
I don't get it.
Not challenging you, just curious.

 

i kill lots of animals: cats, rats, dgs, mice, rabbits, deer, squirrels, hogs, prarie dogs. I kill alot of non native species to Texas cuz thats where i live... koi are alot of fun because i feel like its a japanese person somehow

 

I released the fish, handling them as cleanly as possible. They swam away to live another day. My understanding back then was that fish didn't feel pain. I think the argument whether they do or not is still up for grabs although I think science is leaning towards 'they do feel pain' these days. The bird was just a senseless death.

peace

c20

 

move to Australia, where if you catch a rabbit, fox, wild pig, or wild cat it's prettymuch your DUTY TO KILL IT, they are all environmental disasters.

 

Wild cats too?
The others were atificially introduces to Australia, but I thought Australia had native wild cats. If so, why are they environmental disasters?

 

No Australia doesn't have native wild cats. Although generations of escaped domestic cats have bred into these strange wild cats that are larger (and more agressive) compared to their domestic ancestors. They are a disaster because much of australia's wildlife are birds, cute cuddly marcupials and rodents (probabaly why we have so many snakes). The ground dwelling rodents especially have little to no protection from cats, and as a result most of them are endangered species.