Thread: A bunny shoot in Tekapo - tough but good..

Originally Posted by mudgripz

Thinking about it - the bunnies were in good nick. Good condition and no sign of disease. Alot of younger ones and they are very challenging to hit out at 140-200m when hunkered down. Shot a few bunnies with white patches on them but zero blacks in that population block. Nothing of that variation in that gene pool I guess.

Yes the main populations were congregating on steep rocky hillsides where there were lines of scrubby cover and matagouri about 100-200 meters up. As we approached they'd run up through the rocky hill face towards the light cover. VERY hard to see until they moved, but once it was dark and we got some lights on them we could pick out bodies better, and maxtochs lit up the eyeshine. BOOM.

And if the little ones didn't hunker down they were continuously bouncing around. There were a lot of very solid adults.