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    is this a stupid plan?

    Now, i realise this has probably come up before but what calibre is best for hunt... only joking

    So has anyone tried decoying rabbits? You know when you drop one and the others run off into the hedge for however long and then when one appears its usually not long before another and then another. Well, what if you got a stuffed rabbit and left it out where they usually feed so when they go running off they notice that one is still hanging around, thus fooling them into thinking its ok to hang about or to come back out more quickly.

    Someone must have tried this tactic and i guess the decoy would have to be downwind and pretty convincing. Anyway thanks in advance for the pisstakes and im off to eb*$ to find a styuffed rabbit
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    i remember reading summit about it in the mags a few years ago using flock covered garden ornament rabbits, i think the article said it worked well

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    Quote Originally Posted by theoben-fan
    i remember reading summit about it in the mags a few years ago using flock covered garden ornament rabbits, i think the article said it worked well
    Was this an april edition

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    Quote Originally Posted by jinx
    Was this an april edition
    actually it may have been, i used to believe anything the mags said, i once spent hours putting pellets in camera film cases and boiling them in a pan of water trying to turn them to gold

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    try mashed carrots with rosemary outside their burrows, works well.

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    This'd never work round my way. They leg it down the burrow and have a committee meeting, then sneak out behind me when I'm laying prone waiting for 'em to come back out where they were before. There I'll be, laying up prone, pointing in one direction, and the wabbits'll be out playing directly behind me. I reckon they do semaphore as well.
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    Quote Originally Posted by simonwoods
    try mashed carrots with rosemary outside their burrows, works well.

    You got that out of airgunner

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    Quote Originally Posted by theoben-fan
    i remember reading summit about it in the mags a few years ago using flock covered garden ornament rabbits, i think the article said it worked well
    Tried it, didn't work for me.

    There was somebody on here in the early days of this BBS who had a theory that moving rabbits were the answer, and he was going to mount flock covered ornamental rabbits on an RC car. I didn't chase him up on it .... but do you think it might be a good idea?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lefty Gunz
    Now, i realise this has probably come up before but what calibre is best for hunt... only joking

    So has anyone tried decoying rabbits? You know when you drop one and the others run off into the hedge for however long and then when one appears its usually not long before another and then another. Well, what if you got a stuffed rabbit and left it out where they usually feed so when they go running off they notice that one is still hanging around, thus fooling them into thinking its ok to hang about or to come back out more quickly.

    Someone must have tried this tactic and i guess the decoy would have to be downwind and pretty convincing. Anyway thanks in advance for the pisstakes and im off to eb*$ to find a styuffed rabbit

    It certainly seems worth a try, i think dead ones that have just been shot, and ones that are stuffed, but i think u'd have to be very wary of the scent i u kept a decoy in your garage or what ever, we doont smell good to rabbits lol

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    You could always lie in the field with your bare @rse in the air and hope to attract the gay rabbits....


    are you sure you are just waiting for gay rabbits?
    6 months is a long time

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    Q: How do you attract a rabbit?

    A: Sit in a field and make a noise like a lettuce.

    Sorry!

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    Nice one pat ...lol
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lefty Gunz
    You know when you drop one... and the others run off
    I'm not surprised the others run off.

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    The idea of the decoy certainly works with garden gnomes, so why not with rabbits?

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    I suppose I could dress my 3-year old up like a carrot, dye his hair green and bury him up to his ankles...but I would get done for neglect.

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