Swamper/Cottontail

hookset · Post by **hookset** » Tue Mar 15, 2011 6:33 pm

A lot of people have been asking the difference. Here's a picture of the difference between a Swamper and a Hillbilly.

goodpickens · Post by **goodpickens** » Wed Mar 16, 2011 1:32 am

Is the swamper the one in the middle? Looks like something from the black lagoon.

bryanray · Post by **bryanray** » Wed Mar 16, 2011 7:51 am

goodpickens wrote:Is the swamper the one in the middle? Looks like something from the black lagoon.

my wife says thats one good lookn fella holdn them rabbits

bill huttozac · Post by **bill huttozac** » Wed Mar 16, 2011 4:01 pm

Hookset- IMO, the better difference between the two is how they run in front of the hounds. As a rule, a Swamper has better habitat to play his tricks on the dogs. No doubt you have seen them hide in water when pushed pretty hard or jump up on a blowdown that is 3 to 4 foot above ground, run down the length of it, hit the ground and take off again. besides the big circles they tend to make. I much prefer my dogs run a Swamper over a Cotttontail. Nothing better than a pack of Beagles singing their song !!!

hookset · Post by **hookset** » Wed Mar 16, 2011 7:48 pm

bill huttozac wrote:Nothing better than a pack of Beagles singing their song !!!

That's all I'm asking for right there.

PREACHERS KENNEL · Post by **PREACHERS KENNEL** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 5:35 pm

thats a small swamper also ,.from the ones i kill. i went to a place in ala 2 years ago man they were huge.. i actually followed and i promise before god and all the angels ,, i followed a bloodtrail to a hole .. i promise lol.. i just woulnt had belived it if i hadnt did it .

bill huttozac · Post by **bill huttozac** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 5:57 pm

PreachersKennel - Why didn't you just twist that bunny out of the hole ???

BrewerMo · Post by **BrewerMo** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 10:27 pm

Red, a few years ago Emery took me up north ( Northern Wisconsin ) and we had a similar situation. Sam ( Emery"s brother ) shot a Snowshoe with a .22 and it ran a whole nother "Wisconsin Mile" back to the gun. The neat thing to me was the blood trail it left in the snow the entire way. It seemed more like trailing a deer to me. I couldn't believe the distance a wounded rabbit traveled, I have never seen a cottontail do this.

Briarhoppers · Post by **Briarhoppers** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 11:18 pm

Here's a few decent sized Swampers from the TN River. I do think they get a little bigger down in AL, MS and LA.

Joeyman · Post by **Joeyman** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 11:36 pm

PREACHERS KENNEL · Post by **PREACHERS KENNEL** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 6:33 am

now joey thats more like it ..they run like a deer and maynot circle back at all after a 2 mile run for the hills lol. you gotta belive in your dogs if your swamp rabbit hunting.

RunninHard · Post by **RunninHard** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 7:31 pm

Them some big ol rabbits !

jumpNrun · Post by **jumpNrun** » Tue Mar 22, 2011 2:58 pm

joey that looks like the swap rabbit i seen !

Joeyman · Post by **Joeyman** » Tue Mar 22, 2011 3:24 pm

jumpNrun wrote:joey that looks like the swap rabbit i seen !

lets go find him. If we do taht will be a heck of a run

Skint' Back Kennels · Tue Mar 22, 2011 10:44 pm

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