Lee Harker
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I had Gramma bring him to the lumberyard after work monday since the temps went from low teens to 44 degrees and I knew the bunnies would be sitting out basking in the warmth. I brought my first real gun..a Savage 22/410 over under since Sunday I couldn't safely take shots at the two rabbits we DID see with my little Ruger 77/22. Always good to teach them young that you have to know where your bullet is going..he was bummed but understood. Yesterday, I had a bullet in the top barrel for sitting rabbits and #6 2 1/2" 410 in the bottom..damn 410's are expensive!! We hadn't gone 50 feet behind one of the buildings when I spotted a rabbit tucked into a brush pucker on the side of a hill so I .22'd it..told him to walk up the hill and get it but the snow was about waiste deep for him and he was a bit leary about grabbing it..so I trudged up, grabbed it and tossed it down right next to him and laughed when he jumped and yelled...we got around that building and there was another one sitting on a sticker in an old lean-to so I 22'd that one too. He did get that one as I wasn't going to let him off the hook this time. We walked around for about a half mile and then I took him where I had scouted after lunch and had seen two rabbits in a thicket..as I walked through it one took off accross the drive and he yelled "ther goes one"! so I let it get away a bit and smacked it with the 410 on the run..it made it under a skid of shingles. I tried looking under the skid but couldn't see it and was in the process of pushing a short 2x4 into the fork pockets of the skid to get it out when I noticed it was between that skid and the one behind it..dead as a hammer..soooo..Blake was the only one of us that would fit and he grabbed it like a pro. I kick myself after every hunt with him because I forget the camera..but I know this day is burned into his memory and mine..next time, now that the pressure is off, he will be doing all the shooting....on sitting rabbits.
