Rabbit hunting

Use everything from 12GA 3 1/2" for some areas jack rabbit hunts especially if coyotes are occasionally present,through 2 3/4", 16GA,20GA and 28GA now...had 410 but never shoot bunny with it. Rimfires 10/22,455 17HMR and 22LR depends of the location,
 
It's been a while since I've posted anything but here is one from one of my most favorite hunts ever. I took my two boys out on Boxing Day and organized a small drive. Neither one had ever shot anything before. My oldest boy shot his first two rabbits using his new Remington 870 20 guage. I've waited my whole life to take my boys hunting together (when they could both carry). I'm looking forward to bringing them both out for deer this Fall.
 
I'm glad this thread got a bump. It's been a while. I haven't been out for hares nearly as much as last winter. I did get out for a couple of hours, two Sundays ago, and got 6 of them. Probably could have limited out if I had stayed, but I had some other stuff to do.

On the following Friday I cooked up a bunch of legs in duck fat for 8 hours at 225F. Made rillettes and it turned out amazing!
 
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Thanks. I grew up with my Dad telling me stories of his Dad (my late Grandfather) hunting jackrabbits with a bunch of guys in Barrie. He said about 40 of them would all meet at the legion on Boxing Day and they would do huge drives from one concession road to another out in the country. I live in Sudbury and have always thought about that story that my Dad told me. This year was just the boys and I but next year, maybe we'll recruit a few more. A few weeks after the hunt, my oldest boy and cooked up a couple rabbit meat pies that was a recipe from my Dad. It was fantastic with a nice Cabernet Sauvignon.
 
Nice! One of my favourite ways to eat hares is Hare & Mushroom Pie! The recipe I use has carrots, onions, leeks, brown mushrooms (or various wild mushrooms if I am lucky) and snowshoe hare meat (of course). I made a variation of that pie a few days ago and used the hare meat rillettes in place of fresh hare. The duck fat added a whole new dimension to it.
 
Slooshark1 said:
It's been a while since I've posted anything but here is one from one of my most favorite hunts ever. I took my two boys out on Boxing Day and organized a small drive. Neither one had ever shot anything before. My oldest boy shot his first two rabbits using his new Remington 870 20 guage. I've waited my whole life to take my boys hunting together (when they could both carry). I'm looking forward to bringing them both out for deer this Fall.
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I recognize that trail...
 
Here's my brother and I hunting out near Burwash, about a half hour South of Sudbury. I was in Grade 10, I think. Hunting with beagles was a ton of fun. No beagles anymore, unfortunately.


Here's me in highschool with a rabbit. Old Betsy chased it right to me. She was a great dog. It seems like a lifetime ago.



Here's my dad with some jack rabbits that he shot when we lived in Saskatchewan. He was on his way home from work and had his .22 magnum with him. He shot them all in the same clump of trees off the hood of his car. Funny story. I think I was still filling diapers at the time.


 
Here is an old picture from the Sudbury region... this was taken about 35 years ago...

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Royzo said:
Looks like an old 151K Mossberg butt fed 22 you were using. Good old rabbit gun and very easy on the meat.
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Yep... that old Mossy took literally thousands of grouse and hares... should have kept it for nostalgia sake.

The old girl took bigger stuff too...

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