Rabbits harvested this year

crittergitter65 · Post by **crittergitter65** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 8:43 pm

me-51
others in front of my dogs-20
so a total of 71 with one saturday left.

jonnyringo · Post by **jonnyringo** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 8:49 pm

Shot a dozen or so. Ate a few and gave the rest away to people from old school who love rabbit but are too old to hunt or no longer hunt. Will probably take a half dozen more before the end of the season. I try to keep it under a few dozen a year.
I like to let the dogs circle them a few times before I even consider shooting after kill one of the day.

captbutch · Post by **captbutch** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 9:18 pm

I was just thinking about that and I think we've killed 50 to 60 rabbits this season in both Indiana and Michigan. Michigan is open for another couple of months til end of March.

huntinfool · Post by **huntinfool** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 9:35 pm

Unsure of exact numbers other than we've killed 53 in our last 5 hunts. I'm pretty sure we are up between 150 and 200. We've had some really good hunts, and we've put a lot of rabbits in holes. We put 6 or 8 in holes today, ontop of the 7 we got. On one of our hunts, 4 hunters for 2 hours 45 min. 16 rabbits shot, and the dogs caught two. I couldn't really expect anything more than 6+ rabbits per hour

gundog · Post by **gundog** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 10:19 pm

63 in about 8 hunts I believe. Only one or two more left before it ends Feb 15.

Joeyman · Post by **Joeyman** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 9:23 am

gundog wrote:63 in about 8 hunts I believe. Only one or two more left before it ends Feb 15.

Hey gundog you still up for that hunt................

ironjawdawgs · Post by **ironjawdawgs** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 9:39 am

Between my buddy and me we have 53 killed with about 150 jumped in about 20 hunts, We still have untill the end of Feb, and we just got about 3 inch of snow so i'm feeling alittle sick, "might have to call off work for a few days" LOL! This year my buddy and I have been working too much. Last year we killed right around 100 and the year before that about 153.
Elliott

CottontailRunner · Post by **CottontailRunner** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 10:22 am

I have shot two this year, had several times when I could have a few more but I wasn't fast enough.

Greensprings Kennel · Post by **Greensprings Kennel** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 8:46 am

the numbers are on the upswing in my area.....we took 50-60 this year, and left plenty for seed...!

Cottontail Chaser · Post by **Cottontail Chaser** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 3:40 pm

We have shot a dozen or so and thats usually it for my dogs each year. I don't jump-shoot and we only shoot when the rabbit has been circled, usually I just let my 12 year old shoot and listening to my dogs run. We don't have any private places left to hunt anymore as everything here in Maryland is being developed and bought by builders..

Greensprings Kennel · Post by **Greensprings Kennel** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 5:50 pm

we always let the hounds get at least one full circle in, and generally let them run the first one 2-3 circles. the only time we shoot is when the hounds have really ran a good race...and the bunny presents a good shot. That's hard to do on those good scenting days, when all you usually see is a gray blur running by.!.....I'm really suprised that some of you guys only do 6-10 hunts a year.! I'm a BIG advocate of putting them under the gun, the ultimate trial..!!

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