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The rabbits are sittin tight and your walking over them. Them shoot'n straight to the hole are doe rabbits, they'll stay under just a short while longer, then they'll be out to breed fore to much longer.
The end of season rabbits are the smart survivors...
Work this year on other cover......food and salt. Try placing water softener tablets(salt) as they are cheap and easy to disperse in places where ther is cover.......multi flora rose ect......they say this helps in breeding!!!! Create more cover by placing wooden palates in the field and lay a brush piles over them......cedar trees are great. Also you can add food sites by planing clover or using PVC tubes with a hole at the bottom in brush piles fill them with cracked corn. Make sure they are in cover so the hawks and owls dont get em. You may have to make a shroud to keep the deer out. If you create a place thats fertile and safe for breeding you will have a lot more rabbits in the area and that equals a lot more dumb ones for you.
Draw your breeding stock out now and you might not have any for next year. I took a farm that you could hunt all day and only get one or two rabbits up to loaded with them, by making cover and providing safe food sites. Good luck!!!!
rabbits and woodchucks use the same holes.once the chucks come out of hibernation,they will not let the rabbits in.that is why the running is so good in the spring.plus you have some rutting buck rabbits to boot.
Dave__i agree with you.i have put out salt and fed rabbits ear corn in the briars for a couple years now and i have rabbits to enjoy.i feed ear corn all winter and keep salt out year around.have trapped some rabbits in town and moved them to these places.i do not gun hunt,just run for pleasure.have more rabbits in places with corn and salt than i do with empty shot gun shells. imagine that lol nu dawg
Good luck!!!!