Re: Any rabbit hunters here?
[Re: Dstone1992]
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10/04/21 11:32 AM
10/04/21 11:32 AM
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Joined: May 2013
Posts: 5,101 Northern Michigan
J.Morse
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trapper
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Northern Michigan
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I used to run bunnies most of the winter. I myself only had one beagle when I was real young, but friends and one old neighbor guy had great beagles. We shot Cottontails by the zillions, as well as Snowshoe Hares when we were in their baliwhack. 99% of our bunny hunts were after the rifle deer season ended and we had snow on the ground. A very few folks would run early in the season, but the vast majority ran after deer firearms season ended.
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Re: Any rabbit hunters here?
[Re: Dstone1992]
#7371085
10/04/21 12:20 PM
10/04/21 12:20 PM
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Joined: Sep 2008
Posts: 6,683 Newark, Ohio 83 years
Actor
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Posts: 6,683
Newark, Ohio 83 years
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I used to love hunting rabbits with my beagles... I was a family tradition, before I had the dogs, when the family got together on Thanksgiving day, the men and boys would go to the field in the morning and hunt rabbits. The women would stay home and cook the turkey. The day after Thanksgiving we had fried rabbits and gravy. I think I liked the fried rabbits better than the turkey. There wasn't any "Black Friday" nonsense back then.
Those were the good old days.
Garry-
“Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.”
Have been trapping 77 years…
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Re: Any rabbit hunters here?
[Re: Dstone1992]
#7371139
10/04/21 01:34 PM
10/04/21 01:34 PM
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Joined: Jun 2007
Posts: 16,150 Tennessee
Scuba1
"color blind Kraut"
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"color blind Kraut"
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Posts: 16,150
Tennessee
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I used to hunt them with air rifles no dogs. Or run a lurcher using a ferret and nets. We eat them year round.
Let's go Brandon
"Shall not comply" with morons who don't understand "shall not infringe."
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Re: Any rabbit hunters here?
[Re: Dirty D]
#7371671
10/05/21 01:59 AM
10/05/21 01:59 AM
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Joined: Jun 2010
Posts: 16,257 Iowa
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The Count
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The Count
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Posts: 16,257
Iowa
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Used to hunt rabbits every winter with 3-4 people. Never used dogs. Used to drive them just like deer. Standers post at the brush piles or old woodchuck holes and the drivers would slowly walk thru swampy thick areas along creeks, fence lines or whatever heavy cover there was. Drivers used .22 pistols in the thick stuff. Occasionally you'd spot one sitting tight within a couple of feet of you and it was pop pop you'd have one in the bag. Posters would either have a .22 rifle or shot gun.
Used shot guns less and less every winter as they are too easy. >22's are more fun.
Usually we waited till there was snow on the ground, late Dec and hunted till the season ended.
Lots of fun a bunch of young guys and great way to spend a winters day. x2 Never ran dogs, but we shoot a lot of rabbits. Snow is nice.
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Re: Any rabbit hunters here?
[Re: AJE]
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10/05/21 08:45 AM
10/05/21 08:45 AM
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Joined: Jun 2007
Posts: 16,150 Tennessee
Scuba1
"color blind Kraut"
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"color blind Kraut"
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Posts: 16,150
Tennessee
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Do you see fleas on a lot of the rabbits? Not really but you get the odd blow fly here and there.
Let's go Brandon
"Shall not comply" with morons who don't understand "shall not infringe."
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Re: Any rabbit hunters here?
[Re: Dstone1992]
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10/05/21 10:01 AM
10/05/21 10:01 AM
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Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 29,750 williamsburg ks
danny clifton
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"Grumpy Old Man"
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williamsburg ks
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I eat them year round. Wash your hands after dressing and check the liver as was said. Cooking makes them safe to eat.
In the spring get up early and pop a couple off the county road. Put their livers in a paper cup and the rabbits in a cooler with ice. Bait a hook with the fresh liver(freezing makes em too soft) If you cast where channel cats are you will catch them. Can have one for lunch and the other for supper
Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
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Re: Any rabbit hunters here?
[Re: Dstone1992]
#7371845
10/05/21 10:06 AM
10/05/21 10:06 AM
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Joined: Jun 2010
Posts: 3,292 Ontario, Canada
slydogx
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Posts: 3,292
Ontario, Canada
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I have not hunted rabbits in a serious fashion for many years... but in the warmer shoulder months (Oct/Nov and Feb) they always had fleas.
Just happy to be here.
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