Different Types of Hunting and Shooting Part 4

Hey everyone and welcome back to the Hunting and Shooting Gazette for my next and final post on the different types of hunting and shooting. In this post im going to be talking a little about lamping rabbits and i hope you enjoy.

Lamping Rabbits

Lamping invloves walking through fields with a good high powered spot lamp and battery pack searching for rabbits. There are to main types of rabbit lamping and they are lamping with dogs and lamping with guns usually rifles. Were going to start with lamping with dogs. When doing this kind of hunting sight dogs are used such as lurchers and whippets. These types of dogs are fast and have very good eye sight and are the best to see the rabbits when the light is shun on them. What you do is walk through fields at night scanning them with a spot lamp searching for the rabbits. When the rabbits are found you realese the dogs and they chase the rabbits trying to catch them while you keep the lamp on the rabbit so the dog can see where it goes.

Lamping rabbits with guns is similar to going with the dogs but not as enjoyable as watching the dogs chasing the rabbits. You walk around the fields scanning them for rabbits and when you find the rabbits you steady your gun and shoot them. Rifles, Shotguns and pellet guns are used but the main one would be the rifles. Usually low powered rifles like the .22 or the .17HMR. Now a days people use pick up jeeps or quads for this kind of lamping as you can cover more ground. Also with the jeeps you can see over the ditches alot easier. When lamping from jeeps there would usually be a team of three people. One driving, one using the lamp and the third shooting. The people lamping and shooting are usually up on the back of the jeep so they can have a 360 degree view of the fields.

Thats all from me today and on the different types of hunting and shooting for now. Please check back again in the next day or two and hopefully i will have a few reviews on hunting gear and a few recipes for your game. Hope to see you again at the Hunting and Shooting Gazette.

Yours in Sport,

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