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Author Topic: Rabbits anyone?  (Read 880 times)

Offline Richard Rounds

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Rabbits anyone?
« on: January 19, 2017, 07:47:00 AM »
Just wondering if any of you guys have been out after the bunnies? I've been a couple times since the close of deer season. Here's a Adirondack hare:)  

Offline ChuckC

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Re: Rabbits anyone?
« Reply #1 on: January 19, 2017, 08:52:00 AM »
Nice job.  I have been out while walking the dog but have taken no shots,  He tends to scare them off before any sort of shot can be taken so it makes it tough for me with a bow.  Hopefully Saturday I will get out with the boys and some beagle dogs and chase em around a bit..  ours here are standard cottontails.
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Re: Rabbits anyone?
« Reply #2 on: January 19, 2017, 08:58:00 AM »
Looks cold up there!!!!

Congrats on the bunny!

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Re: Rabbits anyone?
« Reply #3 on: January 19, 2017, 09:10:00 AM »
Nice

Offline old_goat2

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Re: Rabbits anyone?
« Reply #4 on: January 19, 2017, 09:18:00 AM »
Got one in between elk and deer season. Haven't made it back up again, weather has either been bad or I was working. I don't play around by myself with bad weather at 10,000 plus feet elevation. If I can catch some good weather I'd like to do some snowshoeing to look for snowshoes
 
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Re: Rabbits anyone?
« Reply #5 on: January 19, 2017, 09:34:00 AM »
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Offline Richard Rounds

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Re: Rabbits anyone?
« Reply #6 on: January 19, 2017, 10:15:00 AM »
Thanks guys. I had just got the new Mohawk a week before. Was able to break it in proper like:)....Nice Old goat2! 10,000 ft wow! That's a long ways up to chase rabbits:)
Best of luck with the hunt kadbow.

Offline Soonerlongbow

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Re: Rabbits anyone?
« Reply #7 on: January 19, 2017, 11:12:00 AM »
Growing up on the other side of the state we had swamp rabbits. Wish we had them around here.
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Re: Rabbits anyone?
« Reply #8 on: January 19, 2017, 11:48:00 AM »
Wish I could. That swamp looks inviting. Here it's been rain/sleet and fog. Miserable to be out. Need a fresh snowfall and some sunny days.

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Re: Rabbits anyone?
« Reply #9 on: January 19, 2017, 04:49:00 PM »
I normally do an overnight rabbit hunt with a buddy at his place in Feb. but he found a new lady friend this year and is in love. I feel bad calling him now so I guess I'll just wait to see if he calls. If not, I'm on my own.
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Re: Rabbits anyone?
« Reply #10 on: January 19, 2017, 05:46:00 PM »
I make it out once or twice a winter. It's hard without dogs but still a lot of fun. One day 3 years ago I bagged 2. Have no idea how i hit them but I did lol. Lots of fun

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Re: Rabbits anyone?
« Reply #11 on: January 19, 2017, 05:53:00 PM »
I missed one a couple of weeks ago in Tasmania. During the stalk my heart was racing just like it does hunting buffalo.
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Re: Rabbits anyone?
« Reply #12 on: January 19, 2017, 06:30:00 PM »
The common cottontail, my favorite big game animal.  Pneumonia in my right lung took away my bunny knocking aspirations for a month.   I am getting better, maybe next month.

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Re: Rabbits anyone?
« Reply #13 on: January 19, 2017, 09:31:00 PM »
Nice hare!
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Offline Jack Skinner

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Re: Rabbits anyone?
« Reply #14 on: January 19, 2017, 10:11:00 PM »
Congrates on the hares guys I haven't hunted them since I left Alaska. Here are a couple of bunnies I got last weekend with my Heritage.
 

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Re: Rabbits anyone?
« Reply #15 on: January 19, 2017, 10:29:00 PM »
N. VT hare season is open through end of March. Hope to get up there a few times to give it a try.

Those that have taken hare what do you use for a head?

Offline Richard Rounds

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Re: Rabbits anyone?
« Reply #16 on: January 20, 2017, 05:07:00 AM »
nek4me...I use both blunts and broadheads. Usually if I'm going after them with a bow I don't take my beagle so the broadheads get used more than the blunts. They just seem to work better for me.

Nice bow Jack and congrats on the bunny's..

Offline old_goat2

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Re: Rabbits anyone?
« Reply #17 on: January 20, 2017, 08:24:00 AM »
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Originally posted by Richard Rounds:
nek4me...I use both blunts and broadheads. Usually if I'm going after them with a bow I don't take my beagle so the broadheads get used more than the blunts. They just seem to work better for me.

Nice bow Jack and congrats on the bunny's..
I do the same, I like broadheads better but don't like passthroughs and messing up my feathers on rabbits so I like to shoot broadheads on close shots where I'm shooting down at a sharp angle and the ground will stop a complete passthrough. And then blunts for more level shots.
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Offline Roadkill

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Re: Rabbits anyone?
« Reply #18 on: January 20, 2017, 11:24:00 AM »
Blunts /hexheads/judos for my bunnies and pink shafts and fletchings for ease of finding misses=lists of misses.  

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Offline Jack Skinner

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Re: Rabbits anyone?
« Reply #19 on: January 20, 2017, 01:54:00 PM »
I use a mix of nutters, hexheads, and blunts. Some of the blunts are 380 or 38 casings. All do the job.

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