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"You must have some pretty sissy rabbits down there. Are we to believe that at ten feet your birdshot actually destroyed the rabbit. I thought they would have made a shallow wound only to have the rabbit hop off and die a slow cruel death."
A> This wasn't in Ga, it was back home in Tx -- central part of the state.
B> A full choke shotgun at 10 ft doesn't have enough room for the shot pattern to spread out. Shallow wound? Not hardly. I'd estimate that the shot pattern was just about 4 inches in diameter, and even bird shot will penetrate several inches. Full grown cottontails aren't that big. As I recall, we were mainly pass shooting over stock tanks that day, and I was loaded up with #6 shot -- birdshot, yes, but larger birdshot. Plenty enough to shred that bunny at that range. For that matter, that is a pretty good load for bunnies on the run -- just not that close in.
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