Rabbit Season

[Lemur]

So one of my neighbors has been raising rabbits for meat. They're locked in too-small sheds in his garage, since raising livestock inside the town line is technically verboten. Anyway, he killed one last winter, and sent some of the meat our way, and it was fantastic. Great stuff. However, the process of killing the rabbit was a bit too much for him, and now he can't deal with them.

I've always felt that there is no moral difference between eating a burger and killing a cow, and that anyone who enjoys meat should be okay with the way it is harvested. So I've offered to help kill the rabbits. My reasons are threefold:

1. If I'm willing to eat it, I should be okay with killing it.
2. Better a quick, clean death than a lifetime in a too-small cage.
3. Rabbit is frickin' tasty.

Only problem is that I have never killed a rabbit before. My neighbor attempted the neck-jerk maneuver, which is apparently quite difficult for a newbie. I was thinking along the lines of some blunt force trauma to the back of the skull.

So, do any Orgahs have experience with offing rabbits? Techniques, advice, reference material to offer? One way or another my hands are going to be stained with rabbit blood, and I'd rather make it as quick and painless as possible. And no, I do not have the carpentry skills to build a miniature guillotine, so scratch that off the list.