Rabbit Hunting

[DaveS]

I got out this morning with two of the dogs for a little rabbit work out. Ole Roddy and Yoda jumped and run 4 rabbits. This ole' crusty me missed all 4. Dang.....you should have seen the "dirty looks" I got from the dogs......"All that dang work and you missed?"......had a really great time. Ole' Roddy is suffering from dehydration and exhaustion, but coming back around OK. I'm going to keep my eye on him. We lost one of our best "jump" dogs to cancer a couple of weeks ago. We miss her, she was AWESOME!

[ShaunM]

Sorry about your dog. Hope the other one gets better. I wouldnt mind cooking up some rabbit stew.

[inspecting1]

You had a better day than we did yesterday. jumped one rabbit right out of the box and that was it.

[DaveS]

You had a better day than we did yesterday. jumped one rabbit right out of the box and that was it.

Will probably be hitting your neck of the woods one day next week. There is a couple of good areas over at the WMA we like to hunt.

[JAB]

There were a lot of rabbits around where I now live back toward the end of Autumn. After I ran over a rabbit coming home one night (I hate running over an animal - and I had already narrowly avoided hitting another just a few seconds before) I decided that I would probably hunt some of them this year. I remember, as a kid hunting with my dad and uncles, that it seemed like bagging a rabbit or two was a lot easier/more likely than getting a deer. I have a pet rabbit so hunting them would take a bit of a mindset change but there were so many around that I figured it would be for their own good - rather see them go in a quick and humane (not to mention ultimately tasty) manner than from starving. It has been years since I have eaten wild rabbit. Heck, I was honestly going to dress out the one I ran over and cook it but, well, let's just say simultaneously bagging and field dressing a rabbit with a full-size Dodge 4WD pickup isn't conducive to good eats. Lately, I've only seen the same one or two rabbits hopping around. I imagine the coyotes have thinned them out so I probably won't end up hunting them, after all. Guess I should hunt the coyotes, instead.

Edited February 15, 2012 by JAB

[DaveS]

Bobcats, Coyotes and foxes do put a dent in the Rabbit population. The one animal that does more harm to rabbits is, well, the family cat. House cats are devistating to the rabbit population.

You can go out and hunt you a few. There is more there than you think!