It’s amazing how easily rabbit habitat is built. Simply hinge cutting a few trees or clearing a few for firewood makes excellent habitat. That being said, the best rabbit hunting habitat around me is old junkyards. The neighbor has a couple hundred old cars out in the woods. More rabbits there than anything.
When I was a yougun we'd hunt a local farmers yard. He had all sort of old machinery and vehicles laying around. The area was open with lots of tall grass. When the grass died back it covered the old equipment nicely.
Had to be quick tho, one jumping on and climbing over the equipment would yeild a rabbit or two shooting out for the next nearest spot of cover. Not much time for a shot.
Back starting in 1995, i hunted and trapped an area like that in Arlington, Ohio near Brookville, Ohio on State Route 40. There was a couple of down barns, lots of scrap metal, equipment, brambles and brush. There was a decent fence around about the 2 or so acres. A lot of the scrap metal had wood attached that kept it raised off the ground. Tom, the property owner showed me that when you stomped on the metal, rabbits would run out. Once I had 6 rabbits come out from under one piece of metal. I frequently limited out there on rabbits. I had to shoot really quick and really close.
There was 1 1/2 miles of Wolf Creek on the same property. It ran super straight, with steep, deep banks. The water was really fast and mostly stayed open. It was the best place for jump shooting ducks I have ever hunted. There almost always was 2 or 3 small flocks of mallards on the creek. I would spot the mallards from very far away, look for something to mark where they were, high on the bank, walk there, flush the ducks and usually shoot two drakes on the rise.
Keith
