chuckwagon
CGN Regular
- Location
- Nova Scotia
Who like to go rabbit hunting between Christmas and New years? Seems to be a tradition.
Rabbit hunting around Christmas
- Thread starter chuckwagon
- Start date
Pretty much an all year thing
here but as we seem to have extra time off and the kids dont have to be up for school we all go out on moon free or cloudy nights for some lamping. We used to use dogs but now we have to use rifles with sound moderators. The best golf courses are just too close to houses for centerfire fun. my last trip using a pick up with 4 of us bagged 250 bunnies. 1 happy butcher in the morning. On foot we are limited by what we can carry back to the car! At the moment the ground is too soft to hit the fairway in a 4wd but we are due frost and snow maybe from the 27th so we could be in luck!
here but as we seem to have extra time off and the kids dont have to be up for school we all go out on moon free or cloudy nights for some lamping. We used to use dogs but now we have to use rifles with sound moderators. The best golf courses are just too close to houses for centerfire fun. my last trip using a pick up with 4 of us bagged 250 bunnies. 1 happy butcher in the morning. On foot we are limited by what we can carry back to the car! At the moment the ground is too soft to hit the fairway in a 4wd but we are due frost and snow maybe from the 27th so we could be in luck!
Rabadswompe
Regular
- Location
- Ferme-Neuve
Same here, should be out there on the 27... and taking my partner's young son with us. He's been helping( more like supervising) us cleaning the rabbits, time for him to join in the hunt...in a couple of years, he'll get to shoot.
TimC said:here but as we seem to have extra time off and the kids dont have to be up for school we all go out on moon free or cloudy nights for some lamping. We used to use dogs but now we have to use rifles with sound moderators. The best golf courses are just too close to houses for centerfire fun. my last trip using a pick up with 4 of us bagged 250 bunnies. 1 happy butcher in the morning. On foot we are limited by what we can carry back to the car! At the moment the ground is too soft to hit the fairway in a 4wd but we are due frost and snow maybe from the 27th so we could be in luck!
Just hold on a minute. 250 hoppers?
How longid take ya?
What cal?
I'm gonna need your address.
And lastley.... 250? cool..............
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Wednesday and Friday hunt planned!
Boy, I'm hooked hard on this rabbit thing.
We hunt with one or two beagles and up to 4 shooters in med to heavy spruce woods. Average 7-8 varmints per fore-noon of hunting.
Can't wait to get out on Wed!
Have to take out the new SxS this time.
Good shooting,
V7
Boy, I'm hooked hard on this rabbit thing.
We hunt with one or two beagles and up to 4 shooters in med to heavy spruce woods. Average 7-8 varmints per fore-noon of hunting.
Can't wait to get out on Wed!
Have to take out the new SxS this time.
Good shooting,
V7
Brutus
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
Boer seun....I lived in Moose Jaw for 11 years and after deer season was over and we were not shooting 'yotes, we often grabbed the 22 rifles and went for a rabbit hunting walk ( besides 22 rimfire,and dressing for the weather,I bring light binos, can of pop, plenty ammo, and a granola bar or two). Usually coullies branching out from the few river and creek bottoms were the most prodctive where they have some scrub brush cover. This also depended heavily on the number of coyotes feeding on them locally. So on a high coyote year this can get pretty sparse.....however when there is no snow on the brown colored ground and its in midwinter when the snowshoehares are white and there numbers are high this can turn into quite the all day massacre!!!! Personally I refered to this as "Neon Bunny Hunting!" Really fun with 22 semi auto rifles trying for head shots only!!!!!! Plus you get awesome exercise with a few hunting buddies, watch out for the ground cactus, and IF you bring a dog ensure he does not wander too far away or he may become coyote bait and ensure he has had all of his shots........ie rabies, tularmia,heartworm, as rabbits carry many diseases most of which easily cross over to dogs and only a few to man. Keep aware of fleas as even healthy bunnies will carry them and try to use disposeable rubber gloves while cleaning bunnies.........Sooner or later you will see the big "jackrabbits" on the open praire they deserve 22 magnum or greater power 22 centrefire rifles and if you do shoot them, try the european haspenpheffer to make good for table fare as they are notroiously tough meat. Some Sk hunters i think become spoiled on the deer hunting and feel no need to hunt bunnies, I too ran into this attitude out west, try to scare up some transplanted easterners (or like minded people)... they have a usually strong desire to get them for the table.
Good Luck and Good Hunting.....
PS Leave some snowshoe hares for next years "seed."
Good Luck and Good Hunting.....
PS Leave some snowshoe hares for next years "seed."
