Cottontails

[Ridge Runner]

Same ive hunted small game but never seen 20 rabbits in a field. Always got one or two here or there.
My favorite arrows for rabbits and squirrels is a wood shaft sith a 357 magnum case for a blunt head those are indestructible. And really wollop small critters

That's ashame.

Where we (me, my full brother, and a couple of elementary thru junior high school friends), hunted growing up, we could easily jump 1-4 rabbits within 10 steps of the first rabbit(s) we jumped up. Figure 1 - 30 rabbits, intially, within 200 square feet area. Some were multiple re jumps of rabbits previously jumped. Some were, think of quail, 2 - 5 rabbits jumping/flushing from under your foot at once, and a few fresh rabbits reacting to the jumping of the initial rabbits.

This was a very "unique", by....aaahhhuummm.... multiple definitions, area. Forgo technicalities.... since parents, nor others, didn't complain.

 

[Ridge Runner]

I used to have a pair of beagles that I hunted a lot. When I moved to TN I didn’t have the access to land to hunt like I did, so I don’t have beagles anymore. I have hunted a couple of times with a friend, and still enjoy it.

Blasphemy!!.....

How Dare You!.....

Ignorance Is No Excuse!!......

There are: TVA, TWRA, USNFS, AH Member's, (ie me, and I'm sure some other local AH members) would have assisted in your endeavors, to locate a rabbit hunt......well.....as long as we were "aloud to accompany" aka "actively participate",....in your endeavor to hunt rabbits with "dogs". Preferably beagles.

 

[Daryl S]

Where in SW Ontario Daryl?

Near Dorchester, used to be 10 miles East of London - closer 3 1/2 miles now on Hamilton road. The ferret bunny hunting was in the mid 1960's.

 

[Hunt anything]

@Ontario Hunter , sorry to hear about your dog, it’s tough to see an old friend go downhill!

Only hunted rabbits a few time with beagles in Virginia. I did have a lab that was hell on swamp rabbits, not much on birds but he loved chasing those big old cane cutters!

 

[WAB]

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Bring em over our way some time!

 

[gbflyer]

Never with hounds. Some of my fondest memories are rabbit hunting with my dad, cousin and a friend or two out on the BLM. In those days you drove around and spotted them under sandstone ledges. Headshots with .22. I've shot hundreds of them. I guess they are all buggy these days and no one messes with them much.

 

[Wyfox]

I started to run beagles with my dad at the age of 5 until I was 20 years old when I lived in Michigan. Lots of fond memories doing that, my gun of choice was a single shot Stevens Crackshot .22

 

[Ridge Runner]

Comparing back then: '60's, '70's 80's, early '90's before the explosion of whitetail deer populations, small game ie squirrels and rabbits were the primary meat game animals.

Since those days small game and with some reservation birds, ie quail, pheasant, etc have but dropped off the list of primary meat game, sadly, simply because there is more meat to effort hunting deer and other recovered big game species than small game.

Sadly, there are no efforts by the various wildlife enforcement agencies AND HUNTERS to control the predatory animals, ie coyotes, bobcats, foxes, etc, that have devastated the small game and wild upland bird populations.

 

[gbflyer]

I believe farming practices have also changed the dynamic along with the predators. We ate a lot pheasants, grouse, and cottontails.