Rabbit Hunting

[Ranga]

Hi - not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I'm looking for a property within 2-3 hours from Brisbane to take my lad rabbit shooting. The couple of properties I usually shoot on are rabbit free. Anyone know of somewhere (I'm happy to pay)? I'm confident those who know me on here would agree I'm responsible and respectful ;)

[V8Ian]

Hi - not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I'm looking for a property within 2-3 hours from Brisbane to take my lad rabbit shooting. The couple of properties I usually shoot on are rabbit free. Anyone know of somewhere (I'm happy to pay)? I'm confident those who know me on here would agree I'm responsible and respectful ;)
I vouch for you being respectful. [tonguewink]

[Gav 110]

Who can vouch on Ranga being responsible???

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He owns a Land Rover!!!

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[Ranga]

shoosh you two - you'll blow my cover! [bigwhistle]

[incisor]

Responsible for what?

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[Gav 110]

If you were over here in the west Ranga, I know of a few acres north of Perth that would serve you more than a couple of rabbits

My eldest is going to “take a few out” this weekend

Always good to let the young ones have a shot

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[Saitch]

Hi - not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I'm looking for a property within 2-3 hours from Brisbane to take my lad rabbit shooting. The couple of properties I usually shoot on are rabbit free. Anyone know of somewhere (I'm happy to pay)? I'm confident those who know me on here would agree I'm responsible and respectful ;)

Stay tuned!

[ChookD2]

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[ramblingboy42]

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....but it's duck season.

[Gav 110]

....but it's duck season.

Wabbit season [emoji12]

[vnx205]

I guess Ollie has grown a bit since November 2011.
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[Saitch]

Stay tuned!

Sorry, Ranga. I just received a reply from my contact and they are relatively rabbit free at the moment. They're putting it down to an increase in wild dogs and foxes.

There's always a few rabbits out Nanango way, if you can get a contact out there.

[ChookD2]

Sorry, Ranga. I just received a reply from my contact and they are relatively rabbit free at the moment. They're putting it down to an increase in wild dogs and foxes.

There's always a few rabbits out Nanango way, if you can get a contact out there.

Shoot the wild dogs and foxes then.

[Saitch]

Shoot the wild dogs and foxes then.

They have measures in place for this situation, apparently.

[JDNSW]

I'm afraid I'm a little more than a few hours away - and there is that pesky border!

[Gav 110]

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Definitely wwabbitt season

[Gav 110]

Responsible for what?

🥸

Ask no questions

I tell no lies
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[scarry]

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Definitely wwabbitt season

Is that a Springer in the background?

We had a great property just down the road from here,before the guy sold it.
It was only 80 acres,the record was 23 in two hours, one evening after work.Most were pretty small,and young,the older ones were smarter and difficult to shoot.They lived in the lantana along the river bank,and came out into the open to feed.We used a single shot .22/.410,using .22 LV's.Great gun for the boys when they were learning to shoot,i inherited from my father,and fitted it with a scope.

Many Greyhound kennels around in the area,and i recon quite few escaped and they bred up.

We didnt eat them,but the dog loved them.
Quick skin and gut while warm,chop in half,and another two meals for the Springer.

[Gav 110]

Is that a Springer in the background?

We had a great property just down the road from here,before the guy sold it.
It was only 80 acres,the record was 23 in two hours, one evening after work.Most were pretty small,and young,the older ones were smarter and difficult to shoot.They lived in the lantana along the river bank,and came out into the open to feed.We used a single shot .22/.410,using .22 LV's.Great gun for the boys when they were learning to shoot,i inherited from my father,and fitted it with a scope.

Many Greyhound kennels around in the area,and i recon quite few escaped and they bred up.

We didnt eat them,but the dog loved them.
Quick skin and gut while warm,chop in half,and another two meals for the Springer.

The wife’s springer, she (the dog) doesn’t even acknowledge her (the wife)
I can’t go to the farm without her or she whines all weekend

The boys only got the one rabbit, it come out early and paid the price

It seems whenever you have a gun in the hand they don’t come out
No gun, they sit there and look at you
Gun, no where to be seen (I think they have gotten a couple of tips off the crows)

I’ve usually indulged in a few too many Coopers, so the boys get the .22 Mags and try to catch some dinner
The dogs will catch the odd one from around the shed, if we’re quick enough, we’ll get it off them for our dinner

Had a bit of a spell over the past few months, the wife got sick of us bringing home a carcass or two every weekend so left for the dogs

A couple of years ago when the eldest was about 8, got his first rabbit
Took it home to the missus who had no idea what to do with it
Wife “How do I cook this”
Me “Casserole”
6 year old heard this and thought that we were making “rolls” from the rabbit Cassidy (Cass) had shot

Let’s just say, dinner time turned to tears that night until I put some into some bread for him and called it a roll🤪

Still have a chuckle when rabbit casserole is for dinner [emoji12]

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Gav

[Ranga]

I guess Ollie has grown a bit since November 2011.
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Just a little!! Such a great trip, we really enjoyed your company and would love to catch up again. Maybe once this COVID thing gets out of the way.

[Ranga]

Sorry, Ranga. I just received a reply from my contact and they are relatively rabbit free at the moment. They're putting it down to an increase in wild dogs and foxes.

There's always a few rabbits out Nanango way, if you can get a contact out there.

Thanks mate, appreciate you trying. If they do ever need a hand with the dogs and foxes, give me a yell.

[Arapiles]

Sorry, Ranga. I just received a reply from my contact and they are relatively rabbit free at the moment. They're putting it down to an increase in wild dogs and foxes.

There's always a few rabbits out Nanango way, if you can get a contact out there.


There don't seem to be a lot of rabbits around any more: the worst infestation I've ever seen was at a property near Broadford about 30 years ago where three of us shot over 100 in a morning - and they reckon that you only see 10% of them since most are underground.

[JDNSW]

Anyone born after about 1950 has not seen a lot of rabbits. Before the introduction of the myxoma virus in 1950 rabbits were more prolific than anyone born since then can envisage.

My father was equivocal about this - as he said at the time "with rabbits everywhere, nobody needed to go hungry", and trapping could easily provide a small income with little expense.

By the 1980s developing resistance led to a resurgence of rabbits, and tests were undertaken with a calicivirus causing RHD in rabbits. This was accidentally (?) released into the wild in 1995, and supplemented by the deliberate introduction of a different strain in 2017 that works better in cooler and wetter conditions, but neither of these are as effective as the myxoma virus was in the 1950s. However, this has kept the rabbit numbers down a bit, and probably explains some of the problems finding rabbits to hunt.

[travelrover]

Heading south on the Birdsville track north of Marree in 1979 in a series 3 long wheelbase (ex SA Police) the entire landscape was moving with thousands and thousands of rabbits with myxomatosis. You could not see the earth just rabbits. A very weird experience. You couldn’t avoid them and we flattened hundreds or maybe thousands of them. We drove through this moving landscape for quite sometime and then all of a sudden the country change and they were gone. Never seen anything like it anywhere before or since.

Cheers - Simon

[Xtreme]

Heading south on the Birdsville track north of Marree in 1979 in a series 3 long wheelbase (ex SA Police) the entire landscape was moving with thousands and thousands of rabbits with myxomatosis. You could not see the earth just rabbits. A very weird experience. You couldn’t avoid them and we flattened hundreds or maybe thousands of them. We drove through this moving landscape for quite sometime and then all of a sudden the country change and they were gone. Never seen anything like it anywhere before or since.

Cheers - Simon
Saw a similar but not as extensive 'moving landscape' in 1985 just before arriving at Coongie Lake where the whole sand ridge got up & moved. And there was even one albino amongst the fluffle/colony.

[travelrover]

Saw a similar but not as extensive 'moving landscape' in 1985 just before arriving at Coongie Lake where the whole sand ridge got up & moved. And there was even one albino amongst the fluffle/colony.

Absolutely amazing sight… it took a while to really understand what was happening at first! The brain didn’t want to believe what the eyes [emoji102] were seeing!

[Xtreme]

Oldest grandson has been working on a couple of properties in the central west NSW. Hasn't had his gun licence long but bought a .22 with scope a week or so ago and bagged 19 bunnies a few nights ago.
He has also bagged 3 feral cats & 7 of the 8 foxes that he's seen - not with the .22 though, used his .223 for the cats & wiley foxes.

[JDNSW]

Oldest grandson has been working on a couple of properties in the central west NSW. Hasn't had his gun licence long but bought a .22 with scope a week or so ago and bagged 19 bunnies a few nights ago.
He has also bagged 3 feral cats & 7 of the 8 foxes that he's seen - not with the .22 though, used his .223 for the cats & wiley foxes.

Where was this?

[Xtreme]

Where was this?
About 1 1/4 hrs SE of you John.

[RANDLOVER]

Anyone born after about 1950 has not seen a lot of rabbits. Before the introduction of the myxoma virus in 1950 rabbits were more prolific than anyone born since then can envisage.

My father was equivocal about this - as he said at the time "with rabbits everywhere, nobody needed to go hungry", and trapping could easily provide a small income with little expense.................

Rabbits are actually not very nutritious as they are very lean, and people can end up with protein poisoning from eating them exclusively.

[JDNSW]

Beat's starving, or no protein. Rabbit featured probably about once a week on our menu in the forties, but I think my father was thinking back to the Depression years, when he was out of work and a single parent with a baby after his wife died.

[scarry]

Rabbits are actually not very nutritious as they are very lean, and people can end up with protein poisoning from eating them exclusively.

Isn’t roo meat similar,high protein,very low fat?

Many say it’s no good for dogs,but I know of some working dogs that haven’t eaten much else.

[Gordie]

And at that time the RCD was smuggled into NZ and released, at the wrong time of year, basically immunising following generations of rabbits.

[W&KO]

I’m staying at Texas ATM and see a few rabbits each morning on the way to site.

Seems Texas had the last operational rabbit factory.

Rabbit Works – Goondiwindi Regional Council (https://www.grc.qld.gov.au/visit/see-and-do/rabbit-works)

[vnx205]

... ....
It was due for release in 1998, but, after only 6 months, it escaped from the island, most likely carried by insects.
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Because there was a suspicion that it was deliberately leaked and that people were transporting infected rabbits to assist its spread, there was a joke that did the rounds at the time.

Question: How fast is the calicivirus spreading?

Answer: 60km/h in built up areas and 100km/h elsewhere.

[RANDLOVER]

Isn’t roo meat similar,high protein,very low fat?

Many say it’s no good for dogs,but I know of some working dogs that haven’t eaten much else.

Eating only lean meat doesn't seem to affect dogs as although they are omnivores they are specialised for eating meat. Unlike cats which are obligate carnivores so should only eat meat. Two of my Dad's aunts were vegetarian and had a lot of cats, but only fed them vegetables so they went blind, when my Dad went to visit as a child his running around would scare them and they'd take off running into walls and furniture, the poor things.

[3toes]

In the eighties when my boss used to visit us at the Markets always brought his 22 and went home with a couple of rabbits harvested from the University farm on the other side of Sherwood road. The butcher also used to sell rabbit which rumour had it came from the same self sourced location