Bunny Hunting....

Shwaggy said:
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It doesn't matter how many flavors of spices you throw at it, at the it is still unlawful.
 
cdn1canhunt said:
Still bunnies is most places but as you said the predators have knocked them back and keep them nocturnal. But if you can find an old fence row with some brush piles that the farmers haven't burned off yet, you will find cottontails. I gave up on bunnies years ago and started to hunt the coyotes that keep eating them all.
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What part of sw ontario you from? Im in the chatham kent area. Not many trees and overgrown fence rows left. It gets better the further east you go. What few stands of trees we have we cant use firearms in
 
R.Henning said:
For me anyway, hunting bunnies (especially Snowshoes) with a pack of beagles is about as fun as it gets. Watching and listening to those hounds is a big part of that, especially if they’re your own dogs. Great way to spend the long, winter months outdoors.
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Here in North East Alberta there's just way too many predators to run beagles. I personally know of three guys that were fairly new residents here than ran beagles just like they used to do in Ontario, NB and NS. All of them stopped after a period of time and sad losses. For more productive rabbit trips you just bring hunting buddies.
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I only hunt Arctic Hare and if I don't shoot one in the yard,witch I rarely do they are more fun to watch,it is spot and stalk. Walking along the coast and looking in the rocks. Hard to see sometimes you look for the eye or the black tips on their ears. Either a rimfire or my wife's 222 great fun good eating.
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Necro-post here. I was out rabbit hunting this morning. Boy they still have great camo if you cannot see any white fur inside of ears or lower parts of body.
Number one the dark curve of his back got my attention first off. Closer discernment I seen thin white line of half onto me pair or ears. Done with careful shot.
Number two was superb deception upon me!
Because I thought that dark hump of a tree stump have a pair V shaped ears. Nope. Was an old stump with dark splinters of perfect size and shape. Hahahaa!
Number three (second harvest) was easy peasy near end of the green jungle wall of foliage beside a cut line.
This one was sitting still however the white feet and white under belly total give away.

I was leaving to check for grouse on my exit and bumped into a very successful trapper pulled up nine muskrats. We chatted good thirty minutes.

On drive home seen a coyote about fifty feet from highway kitty corner to gas station and just before that seen a turkey vulture but I could not get a pic in time before it flew away.

All in all, a great morning to be in the outdoors!
Happy Thanksgiving folks!!!
 
Early this spring I was successful with snowshoe hare hunting after a couple of years of looking for good spots, I really enjoy it. Probably as much as I enjoy hunting grouse and that says a lot lol. We’ve cooked them a bunch of ways from stews to baked in the Dutch oven and in the instapot, but our favourite is to grind and mix with pork shoulder or smoked slab bacon and spices and make burgers or better yet breakfast sausage. God are they tasty!

I’ve been mainly using a .22 but I’ve taken a couple with a 12g and #5 and #6 shot, have a feeling we’ll have snow early in one area so they should be easy to see while they’re still brown/grey in colour.
 
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