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I used to use the hammer to the back of the head method but occasionally the rabbit would move at the last minute and your aim would be off so you would just injure the rabbit. I now use a bolt gun. You can lay the rabbit on a flat surface, calm it while taking aim and you will never miss (as long as you know where to place the bolt). That to me is humane.

I've never used the broom stick dislocation method. Seems brutal to me and frightening to the rabbit when put in position. Now that I'm thinking about it, the hammer method wasn't too nice either because you need to hang the rabbit upside down, or at least, I did.

Regardless of how you dispatch a rabbit you need to remove the head immediately, hang it and bleed it. As far as getting bloody meat, the only time that should happen is if you bruise the rabbit while dispatching it, which can happen with the hammer method or the dislocation method.

The difference in methods makes no difference in taste UNLESS you are talking about bruised meat. That does have a funky taste but if it's a small area it can be cut off and doesn't affect the rest of the carcass.