Is .223 too big to hunt rabbits with?

**Polish Taipan** · 11-16-2005, 03:35 PM

If not what grains would you stick with? What type of bullets?

11-16-2005, 03:46 PM

I would say it is if you want any meat left for rabbit stew! Yummy stuff. But if you are hunting the dreaded Jackalope that is a different story. If you don't drop it with one shot it has been known to charge and those antlers have caused many nasty wounds.

**tony** · 11-16-2005, 03:50 PM

shot one once with a 20" colt SP1, It did some damage.

**Polish Taipan** · 11-16-2005, 03:55 PM

So maybe I ought to stick to .22lr on em?

**tony** · 11-16-2005, 04:01 PM

maybe even 22 mag?

**Kevin_M4** · 11-16-2005, 04:05 PM

No, I want to see some images of hunting the silly wabbits with .223. There was some guy over on ARF a year or so ago that had a bunch of images where he did and some were tore into pieces, some with eyeballs popped out and some with only a small exit wound.
I will do an archive search and see if I can find them..

Got it:

He's got an eye put for you

**WC846** · 11-16-2005, 04:09 PM

i think it would be ok as long as you keep the speed down..load yourself up some low power target loads..

**Polish Taipan** · 11-16-2005, 04:19 PM

Aren't Wolf HP's pretty low power?

**Red Jacket Firearms** · 11-16-2005, 04:34 PM

I've shot small game with fmj 5.56 , really just to test it out . Squirrls it would just put a little .22 hole through , shot 3 or 4 and it stayed consistant . Rabbit's or racoon it would normaly destroy the end you shot . Stick with a head shot on rabbit's if possible was my answer to myself. Never tried it with h.p.'s , was only intrested in the military load. BTW , I'm pretty sure if you shot one length ways it would it would just poof him . Didn't try it as that wasn't the point .

**Polish Taipan** · 11-16-2005, 04:54 PM

I think that maybe the ticket...wolf hp headshots and I could have some stew. Thinking ahead to CO.