The American Beagler Forum

Just curious what everyone thought was the best state for rabbit hunting. Length of season, populations, bag limits, access to public land etc....

I have heard Missouri is good, particularly in the Kansas City area. Might even be worth the long drive from other states.

Im from Michigan and we have decent cottontail hunting in the southern part of the state, but the northern part has seen a serious decline in snowshoe population.

Anyone else like to travel to Missouri or Kansas to hunt?

Mybeagles

Iowa

I would imagine they're probably the same states everyone wants to go to for big whitetails...Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, etc. Lots of cover, lots of farmland, and lots of FOOD.

don't come to my part of Iowa it sucks to many predators and no brush anymore. Kansas has alot of bunnies

Come on down to SC all ya need is a couple of potlickers and some band-aids to stop the bleeding. We got rabbits on ssn down here killed half dozen last year with their card in their pocket, let the one with the walker go cause he was blind in one eye and had a limp. rabbits here have turds as big as dimes, thought they were lost milk duds the first three times I try them, now I know better. Run from daylight to dark if you got the power. Oh bring water wing if your pups cant swim.

Western and SouthWestern MO, Kansas and alot of Iowa have tons of public land and tons of rabbits.

LOUISIANA is the best for everything! Hunting, food, pretty women, football... everything!

redbayou wrote:LOUISIANA is the best for everything! Hunting, food, pretty women, football... everything!

I've been seeing them shows on T.V. hunting Gators and things I agree it looks like fun. Food I'm sure. I love Cajun food... Women, we will see, I'll be passing through the Big Easy in a few day on a vaction and staying a few days. Football???? the last time I heard. The Packers won..

North-West Kansas has a lot of Jack Rabbits !

Oregon for Sure LOl
Season Open all year long no limits and nobody hardly at all hunts em. got 4 different kinds of Rabbits from Snowshoe hare at the snowline drop down a bit for the mountain hare ( wood rabbit) high mountain desert areas have Black tail and White tail jack rabbits Valley areas have Eastern Cottontail and what we always called a brush bunny Look and act lke cottontail only smaller Lots of ferderal and state lands many WMA are full of rabbits Only problem is Not alot of beaglers to run with and the Inviromentalist tree hugging animal right folks But they Dont get real close to folks with guns LOL
But I Must Say these Kentucky Cottontail will flat out RUN!!!

TEXAS is good , we can hunt rabbit year round, can even night hunt them,, no bag limit and plenty of public hunting land, cottontails and swampers every where !

BuschBound wrote:the last time I heard. The Packers won..

Yes they did and they earned it. BUT, the NFL isn't football anymore. It's business. I was referring to LSU football. In college football, every game matters. Hope u enjoy ur trip down here!

paducahky1 wrote:TEXAS is good , we can hunt rabbit year round, can even night hunt them,, no bag limit and plenty of public hunting land, cottontails and swampers every where !

Really? Are they considered a nuisance or something? I may have to head west once or twice come spring!