Thread: different way of gutting rabbits

Originally Posted by RimfireNZ

Bit of gas in them... I tend to shoulder shoot with the HMR so I put a big hole in one side and a small hole in the other. I wonder if that'll be a problem. I don't think the heart/lung membrane will hold up. I might have to start shooting for the head.

It just gets a bit messy on the hands if you shoulder shoot them. I find if I pick the big ones up after I've finished shooting for the night/morning they've bloated a bit and it helps get the leverage required to pop them. Some have been shoulder shot. The little ones are easy. Haven't 100% worked out what makes some of them hard to gut this way yet but atm it looks like the big males are the hardest.