1789 tr. G. F. Magné De Marolles xii. 178 It will serve also for rabbit shooting.
1813 J. M. Good et al. (at cited word) An occasional reduction..is found necessary..in which case rabbit-shooting is a pleasant diversion.
1909 ‘O. Henry’ xviii. 294 Once he went rabbit-shooting in Yonkers.
2007 (Nexis) 3 Feb. Hogan has loved animals since he was a boy and never went bird-nesting or rabbit shooting.