Ever shot a rabbit, and it screamed?

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09 Aug 2011, 3:31 am

I worked with this guy that told me how he and his friend got this low grade rifle and would shoot jack rabbits. He said they'd make this keening sound, just like a baby crying. I don't plan on trying it, but does anyone know if this is true? I've never heard rabbits make vocal noises.

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09 Aug 2011, 4:16 am

I'm pretty positive it's true. We had a rabbit call and it sounded just like that.

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09 Aug 2011, 4:33 am

It's true; rabbits can scream horribly.
I've never shot one to test out that aspect of it, but I have heard ordinary domestic rabbits screaming.

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09 Aug 2011, 6:31 am

That's so sad poor rabbits

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09 Aug 2011, 6:33 am

Yeah.^

When 13, I hunted one with a shotgun, and the shot was a spinal shot and it scurried away a bit with its front legs.

The shotgun was a 410 and too little for the range involved. When upon it I suggested a quick 22 rifle shot to the head to end it, but someone stomped its head. They said, "no, I might miss and ruin the meat."

I didn't care for the meat. I'll stick with fowl.

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09 Aug 2011, 6:35 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbqOzeFG ... re=related

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09 Aug 2011, 8:59 am

I never heard a "real" one, but I've heard the "wounded rabbit" calls that hunters use and it is one of the most bone-chilling sounds I have ever heard.

Recreational hunting is something I will never understand...

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09 Aug 2011, 9:13 am

I've shot them in England with air rifle, shotgun, and rimfire rifle.
I never heard one scream though.
Sadly they're a pest to farmers and left alone would infest the whole of the countryside in just a few years.

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09 Aug 2011, 9:56 am

I've never heard a rabbit make that kind of noise. I've heard other animals though.

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09 Aug 2011, 9:58 am

I have never shot a rabbit. However, when I was a kid, we found a baby one by our house, and when my dad picked it up, it most definitely screamed. It shocked me.

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09 Aug 2011, 10:52 am

Raymond_Fawkes wrote:

That's so sad

poor rabbits

My thoughts exactly!

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09 Aug 2011, 3:51 pm

Cornflake wrote:

It's true; rabbits can scream horribly.
I've never shot one to test out that aspect of it, but I have heard ordinary domestic rabbits screaming.

I had rabbits for years and not once did they make a noise outside of raspberry noises when they sneezed ("Pmph!"). Of course, they never got hurt, so they didn't have a reason to.

I didn't even think they could make vocal sounds. I just looked on youtube- yeah, rabbits scream like little girls when they're distressed or in extreme pain.

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09 Aug 2011, 3:53 pm

I'd never shoot a rabbit unless desperate for food in the first place.

I don't really know.

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09 Aug 2011, 4:01 pm

CaptainTrips222 wrote:

Cornflake wrote:

It's true; rabbits can scream horribly.
I've never shot one to test out that aspect of it, but I have heard ordinary domestic rabbits screaming.

I had rabbits for years and not once did they make a noise outside of raspberry noises when they sneezed ("Pmph!").

The noises I heard were from a neighbour who kept several rabbits (more than 20, IIRC). I don't know if it was fighting, or mating disputes, or whatever - but they'd generally kick off in the mornings and it sounded like an axeman was running amok in an infant's school.
As Grisha says, it's bone-chilling.

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