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It's early evening and I'm out in my Isuzu Huntsman
hunting wild rabbits but so far these notoriously abundant wild rabbits
are proving rather elusive I think we're just a little bit early
in about an hour
I think the rabbits come out into the open
open the gate and we'll drive around
right life in the country is opening closing gates
all the time especially on farms and I'm here
the great friend of mine Holly's little farm I just near where I live
and she's got this amazing business called Farms To You she basically has all these
lovely animals she takes into inner city
schools kids and she teaches kids about wildlife and farm animals
Holly has huge problems she can't use the whole bank up there because the wild rabbits
have completely dug it up
so I'm going to drive around for an hour in my Isuzu Huntsman and see if I can
shoot a few wild rabbits
and then we can cook something good rabbits being rabbits
I'm certain I won't have to wait too long before I spot the first bunny
so I'm gonna keep scanning with my binoculars
until I find what I'm looking for looking at every little angle how to find wild rabbits
nook and cranny and under every single hedgerow
before long I spot what I'm looking for as a rabbit hops out
know what are the most important thing I think the most important thing in any of
this sort of sport hunting wild rabbits is
you have to have the right kit and binoculars
are key now I love these Swarovski binoculars are brilliant that they have an
added feature that makes them
invaluable and that is that button binoculars with a rangefinder
I can look out of the window here and I can tell within a yard
how far away the rabbit is unfortunately on this occasion
although well within range this rabbit sits just out of bounds
in another farmers field so I can't shoot this rabbit
too bad but it's not too long
before spot another rabbit taking in the evening air
this time he's on my side of the fence
the rabbit is running in
I'm just gonna trickle very slowly down here see if I can get a really nice
safe shot on this wild rabbit
my rifle's not loaded yet as soon as I get within range I will load a round
and when I've got a safe shot into the ground I'll shoot the wild rabbit
as I make my approach yet another rabbit appears
perfect now this one gives me a really good safe shot
I'm gonna take my chance load and take aim with the .22
and made absolutely sure that I'm safe to fire the shot
Shot the wild rabbit it always pays to wait
two rabbits they all came out having run around one rabbit stood beautifully lovely and
safe in a bowl in the ground below me
and I shot the wild rabbit in the head
the rabbit did a couple of turns and he's dead
we're interrupted by the second rabbit making a dash for it
although the camera missed the action as it all happened really quickly
I managed to take the shot and total success
okay so got one rabbit down that's dead
got another one that just hopped past me up here I've shot as well to come pick this one
up
when stalking or shooting rabbits with a rifle like a .22
my Swarovski rangefinder binoculars make a huge difference
I can estimate absolutely precisely how much the bullets going to drop
and make those clean head shots that we chefs really want
lovely healthy rabbit check it's healthy and now runs a hand down here
and their push all the wee out of the rabbit
that rabbit is good to go
so dealing with the rabbit is much like dealing with deer the better you
shoot it and the quicker you can deal with it the better
going to cut behind the rabbit's hock here make a littl cut
and then I'm going to push one of the rabbit's paw
behind like the other this is called legging the rabbit
and that means we can hang it up now holding it like so
hold the rabbit up by it's legs
use your knife to make a little nick in the rabbit
that's all you do to the wild rabbit
now turn the rabbit the other way up
now reaching into the hole I made
grab the insides of the rabbit look how clean the rabbit is
that's a perfectly paunched rabbit that now is in perfect shape any game dealer or butcher
would bite your arm off for this rabbit
clean and neat as you like that is gonna be wild rabbit korma
before you know it as I head off to collect the second rabbit carcass
I'm really happy to have bagged a couple of wild tasty
and free animals for my cooking pot it's been another successful hunt
and the farmer's over the moon my rabbits been poaching away for about an hour
rabbit meat just pulling off that bone
wild rabbit korma
it's delicious