On a cold day with snow on the ground and bright sun, I never noticed a nauseating stench. But a shotup rabbit is a shotup rabbit. If you get the hams and part of the back and a front leg of two, what do you want--head cheese? We always soaked a couple of times in cold saltwater to draw the blood. I shot a sitting cottontail with a scoped .22 and watched him do a high back sommersault in reaction but can't imagine swinging a rifle on a target as fast and small as a rabbit. As for small-bore pistol and rifle marksmen in squirrel woods, I don't think my dad would have had much use for them. Possibilities for unintended consequences there. Squirrel laying on branch, you hit it in the head with a bullet, you're a marksman. Hit it in the head (and the branch) with 20 gauge, you need three more of the same for a meal and none of them shot up too bad.
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