hour and 20 minute chase

[tc97]

Went runnin for a few hours today, ran a rabbit for an hour and 20 minutes. ice is still on the ground yet, circled the rabbit 3 times till

Ran this rabbit for an hour and 20 minutes

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i shot it.

[adirondackjoe]

you ran the hair right off that poor rabbit.

[RickH]

Nice job!

[tc97]

Hahaha yeah i wanted to get a picture before i skinned it, but he jumped another right after and i didn't have a chance to grab him!

[rabbitatfarm]

Any rabbit that ran that well might have won his freedom for another race another day. Just saying.

[Mitch DeVore]

Rabbitatfarm has a good point there , but still a nice job after all that's what it's all about.

[adirondackjoe]

rabbitatfarm, tc97 owed it to his dog to shoot that rabbit.

[tc97]

I didn't really wanna shoot it, but it was the first rabbit i shot for him all season, he did soo good ifigured he deserved it!

[Casey Harner]

If my dog can hang onto a track for that long then I would also shoot it for my dog. Great job young man!

[likeemfast]

tc97, you keep on shooting them for that hound. He can run them for fun from the day after the season goes out to the day it comes back in.

[rabbitatfarm]

I meant no offense to anyone. I, too, might have rewarded the dog, especially if it was his first. On the other hand, with runs consisting of jump & run 20 yards to a hole lately, those long runners might have passed on some good genes. Those long runners learn, and teach our dogs new tricks to keep them sharp. We ran a rabbit in two big circles only to have three dogs get a hold of him in a thicket. It was about half grown. A couple of years ago, we ran one into the basement of an old barn. It came out on the first floor; to this day I don't know how he got up there. I believe, he just liked to run and enjoyed the game as much as the dogs. Love those rabbits that like to run--but I like baked/fried rabbit too.

[tc97]

No offense taken there. I'm just gettin my hound ready for this hunt this weekend at mercer, been poudin him lately, just figured id go out and have A little fun with him that night and do some shootin. he's gettin me excited i pulled the map up on the garmin and it was telling me that he was makein 220yd circles after the third circle there i kinda thought if i didn't shoot it then i wasn't gnna get home anytime sooni. Wish it was morning time i jumped that rabbit, i coulda seen just how long that rabbit would have ran. Eaither way me and my dad have been runnin dogs since iwas born and i am haveing a beeter tine than ever now that I'm older and know what's going on!

[mybeagles]

Rabbit dog!

Lot of dogs can't get 1 circle....3 circles is separating himself from the norm....good job!