From Cottontail to Crockpot: Shotguns for Hunting Rabbits (VIDEO)

By Kristin Alberts

Small game season conjures memories of squirrels in the tree tops, snow on the ground, Beagles on the chase, and lest we forget, bunny hunts. More family memories have been built around rabbit hunts and the subsequent country game feeds for decades. That’s a tradition we’d love to see preserved for generations. In the spirit of organic white cottontail meat for the stew pot, Guns.com brings you three of our favorite guns for bagging bunnies.
Henry .410 Lever Action
Should you choose to go the route of the baby .410 bore, there are more options today than ever before. Aside from the single-shot .410 with which I claimed my first small game, my current favorite is the non-traditional among the bunch: the Henry lever action.
The 24-inch round-barreled Henry holds five shots of 2.5-inch .410 and ships with a single Invector-style full-choke tube. Patterns are solid and true, more than enough to make a clean snap shot on a moving rabbit. Weighing in at 7.5 pounds, this lever gun is the heftiest of the three, yet balances and shoulders very well.
Though MSRP on the Henry .410 is steep at over nine bills, the guns are still selling as fast as they hit store

Source: Guns.com