Our archery club is going to have our yearly bunny hunt. Do you guys recommend flu flus or regular fletched arrows. Also with rabbits, are blunts sufficent.

Yes blunts are sufficient, but that doesn't mean you couldn't use other heads. When I was in JR High and High School, I would hunt with a buddy,but we almost always only shot at sitting rabbits. 38 cal shell casing on wood arrow. We just sneaked into areas where we thought they would be bedded , and killed a lot doing this. Even better if there was snow. You could really pick out their eyes. Because of this method, we never had a use for flu flus. If you plan on jumping them for running shots, flu flus would probably be a good choice.

Hex heads deadly and won't bury under.

I'd just use all the mismatched arrows in the bucket

We have about 2 feet of snow so it shouldn't be to hard to find them. Can't wait to get a couple in the crock pot with creme of mushroom soup.

String tracker!

Awesome suggestion Falcon. Never thought of that. Thanks

String trackers are nightmares on bunnies!! due to their brushy habitat, you end up with a hell of a mess with an errant shot. in my experience, a well placed shot anchors bunnies where they are, with minimum movement.

Hex heads, judos, dull broadheads all work. Large chartreuse feathers are a plus in the snow.

I’m sorry white falcon but I’d think that’d be a mess. Imagine walking thorough scub w a loose string? I’d imagine in some situations it could work but I just don’t see why. Rabbits die real easily. If dogs are involved in this and they were my dogs no one would shoot before a full circle was made. No jump shooting. It distances dogs and imo it’s about them more than a bunny. Any head at all would be sufficient. Just watch for the dogs if there is any

No need to overthink hunting rabbits. Use what you have that can be shot from the bow. Rabbits are easy to kill with shots to the chest area or head and you don't need broadheads. Hex heads from Ace are near perfect, but...you can do pretty well with a field point and a washer behind it.

You don't need flu-flu arrows unless you have rabbits that fly, and I never encountered any like that in my lifetime. My buddy and I used to hunt them with the bow and arrow....find them sitting and a blunt to the head or chest kept them in the spot they were sitting. If using wood arrows, slip ons like HTM rubber blunts work fine as do shell casings. I've even used old centerfire brass...cut off and slipped on wooden arrows.

We will have no dogs. But our club has an over abundance of buck thorn. I know this will fire up Bowmania, who is also a member of our club. He will not hunt, because he only shoots trophy animals. I have seen them. He really is good.

Bowmania's last BC bunny!!! :)

Thats funny!!!

Any kind of blunt works. I'd stay away from broadheads unless hunting alone. At group hunts, folks often get quite close together. Always a chance an arrow will deflect in the brush and hit a person.

The shooting range south of town has sign that tells all of the rules. rule number one.Pickup your shells and casings. You must wear sturdy boots because the ground is 50% covered with centerfire casings. Most of them make good blunts for 11/32 cedars. the longer ones make better blunts for bunnies, just pack a couple of lead split shot in the m to get the weight up a little. 45-70s make a good bunny blunt if you wrap your arrow with a layer of grizzly tape. Those arrows will need to be a bit longer than net length.

I love rabbit meat They are scarce around here lots of red tail hawks

Two feet of snow, you might want some biodegradable marking tape so you know where to look for the arrows come spring. If the ground is frozen those arrows will be a long ways from the original entry point! Of course if they are coated in crimson red blood they'll be easier to find. And I agree bright fletching.

Enjoy! it is a blast, my last time out was with a friends excellent dogs in very dense thickets with gas line right of ways, plenty of shooting but the rabbits won. They would pause or turn before coming into the opening, just enough to throw your lead off. I grew up with beagles and was always chasing them wabbits a bow.

A while back our snow pretty much melted for a couple of days. I went out took four quick shots and came home with two for the grill. I love shoot away cedars more than my broad head arrows. Cottontail rabbit on the grill is about as good as it gets.

Yup, that's funny!!! I almost missed this thread.

Sharps doesn't know what a rabbit is yet.

Sharps at the bar, where most of the important hunting takes place.

Bowmania

thats a cute pup

I should have clarified in my post,,,I hunt large Snowshoe hares in my area, and typically hunt alone or with another experienced bunny hunter, headed off in a different direction. Remote area, deep snow, lends to the dull broadhead comment. If a hare isn't anchored, they typically will get 2, 3, 4, sometimes 5 feet under deep snow, and its a bitch to get into the their hides to retrieve them.

Hunt them like you stalk deer, with binos. Move at a diagonal. The black eye and pink ears will show up. I use a yard ball and drop a piece on high brush to help recover lost arrows

Yarn ball. I take 12 inch strands and tie them loosely, so i can pull, toss on brush and pursue[cause I missed!]. That yarn helps me recover arrows

Shawn are you talking cottontails?? In my area one arrow stops em normally. They give up pretty quick more often than not. If dogs were involved there’d often not be 4 shots as they’d get em. If 4 shots were taken don’t you think the hunter could walk over n dispatch him cause it sounds like he’s not moving too quick? If an arrow were to stay in like they often do cause of the ground how would they run through thick cover? Maybe you mean hares? By no means am I discounting what you’re saying but it’s gotta be a dif subspecies at least? An avg cottontail circle when chased w dogs isn’t normally that far. My buddy has a spot they typically make 300 yard circles on a gps collar. My other buddy ran some last week w another club member ran one he told me was going 300 to each side of him essentially making a 600 yard circle. I wasn’t there but it sounds like off game to me. He said they saw rabbit though. Again that’s uncharacteristic if factual and has to be at least another subspecies. This was a couple hours from home into NY and where I live rt on NJ/NY border one can get into hares in 1/2 hr. Even if it was a buck cottontail reaching they (by me) typically line out towards home n circle in their home range. Our beagle club has a hunt 2 times each year. One member brings in huge rabbits every hunt. He also hunts north of the club but it can’t be too far as he’s gotta get back for weigh in. The really large size also shows differences from home and these do appear like large cottontail

I like judo's...it limits the ability of the arrow to go under the snow.

The springs don't catch the brush because I shoot hares sitting and won't shoot without a clear shot at the chest/head/neck.

Use yellow/ orange and blue.

Fixing that picture

In my home state, Wisconsin, there's movement afoot from our leftist elected officials to ban all "hunting contests".

Big buck, rabbit, squirrel, you name it. And so it begins.

I don't participate in them any more, but did so when younger. Rabbits were a favorite in particular...a great way to break winter cabin fever, rekindle friendships and hunting partners, and some excellent table fare.

Gonna keep an eye on this one.

A pistol casing with the cap driven out and replaced with 32 bolt, then screw a wing nut on that. It can be sharpened a bit, they do a hard number on a cotton tail.

Might as well hunt Bigfoot around here. Haven't seen a rabbit in years!

Pdiddley, I think your just trying to show off that beautiful Howatt Hunter, '63 or '64? John

A great small game head and real well-priced. My poor man's judo, not afraid to lose one, and on a parallel shaft I rarely break the shaft, rather, the head bends, absorbing any hard shock.

I’ll check it out Shawn

Envious is all I can say. Used to be pheasants..used to be rabbits...but you never saw so many coyotes and redtail hawks in your life!

Maybe defying the general thought here, but in my years of serious rabbit hunting I found an inexpensive, sturdy broadhead such as a Bodkin or any of the Zwickeys to be the best at stopping rabbits or holding them in place following a marginal hit, until you can get there to dispatch them. Blunts work fine with good solid hits to the head and chest.

I've killed two this year by walking and looking. Jumped both but they didn't run far. I like a broadhead. I've had hex and judo not do the job. You don't always get the head or eye shot.

I've killed two this year by walking and looking. Jumped both but they didn't run far. I like a broadhead. I've had hex and judo not do the job. You don't always get the head or eye shot.

Looks like a blunt on the end of that arrow and I shot it running. The bow is one of my lighter in mass weight ILFs to carry, Morrison riser.

I'll vouch for what Shawn said. I've hunted with Shawn a bunch of times, these rabbits are tough and they live in tougher cover. If you ain't bleeding, you ain't hunting it right!! That's probably why Shawns got so many bunnies.

This is a Chrysler car key. Notice it sheared off the rabbit’s ear. Hit them hard with what you choose, stew follows shortly there after. I love to hunt those bunnies and have used a variety of points. Jackrabbits take a bit more anchoring than cottontails

When we DID have rabbits,my cousin and I always used old 3 bld. Bodkins on our scabbiest old cedar shafts. Most times they got broken when the rabbit dived under a brush pile or tried to go down a hole!

Never had a rabbit stay put for an incoming flu-flu! Regular fletch only!

Flu Flu's and Judo's are perfect for squirrels and rabbits.

Nate' does a single or doubble bevel work best in that rig??? :>))

I have always used a Hex blunt- seems to get through the brush better

had Judos stop up before getting to the rabbit

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