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Bullet_Bob
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Rascally Rabbit Hunting?
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February 12, 2009, 11:59:00 PM »
I have 18 acres in Virginia, 15 of them were cut down this summer before I purchased it. When they cut it they let the laps stay where they fell. I would like to try to rabbit hunt it before the season goes out Feb. 28. But I have never hunted a rabbit with a bow. How do I hunt them?
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NorthernCaliforniaHunter
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Re: Rascally Rabbit Hunting?
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February 13, 2009, 12:12:00 AM »
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Mike Orton
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Re: Rascally Rabbit Hunting?
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February 13, 2009, 12:21:00 AM »
Bob,
When hunting wabbits, don't look too far out in the distance....hunt the ones close to you. If you hunt the far away wabbits you'll miss the up close ones. Suggest you look for round black eye dots in the brush piles. Wabbits are too much fun to hunt, best way I know of sharpening field shooting skills...
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Mo. Huntin
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February 13, 2009, 05:27:00 AM »
I would do it like I do everything else. Go scouting leave my bow in the truck and blunder through the thick stuff and you will see a ton of them. If you got your bow and are sneaking along forget about it. just kiddin ya sort of.
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Mike Gerardi
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February 13, 2009, 07:39:00 AM »
Sometimes you have to get right ontop of them befroe they will bolt. Sneak up on brush piles and scan with your eyes. Sometimes you can see them just sittin by an edge. Most of the time you have a friend jump on a brush pile and they will shoot out. It kinda depends how big a population you have and how well ya know it. Your better off just gettin out there and learn the area as ya go.
Best of luck to ya!!
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Roy Steele
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Re: Rascally Rabbit Hunting?
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February 13, 2009, 09:42:00 AM »
Here in WV I do it a little different.When its cold rabbits like to set out in grassy fields.Even as far as setting out in the green open hill sides around rock breaks or any thing they make a pot in.Thats a place to set for you non rabbit slayers.
This makes great stalking.Sorry but I shoot most of my rabbits setting at less than 10 yards.Unless I use a dog we'll get to that later.You got to see them first.It's really hard to hit them on the run.I try when I have to.
If I want to do that I use a dog.That way when the dog brings the rabbit back around.It's use'lly at a slow hop which works great for a bow.Even while stalking you can take a dog along.Sometimes we do both.
The other way is in the snow.Where you can track and stalk at the same time..After a while you noice your stalking and shooting will get better.It's all great fun and a good way to shoot your bow and get out of the house at the same time.
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Shawn Leonard
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February 13, 2009, 04:32:00 PM »
Check out the Joan Leonard Memorial Bunny Hunt thread, we have 70 or 80 guys and gals bust brush and drive them like deer. Last year we had over 250 shots and killed 17 bunnies!! I do this a lot and I find the nastiest thickest wild rose thickets and first I try and sneak in and snake an arrow thru to the sitting bunny, than if that fails I jump the pile and when it runs out try and shoot. We do well on bunnies with our bows! Shawn
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Badlands
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February 13, 2009, 06:23:00 PM »
out here we have an annual bunny hunt on the day before presidents day, so it is coming up the day after tomorrow. The country we hunt is ND badlands and we'll usually find a wide open creek bottow that we can work as a group. The creek bottoms are generally filled with sage brush and bullberry bushes. We'll work the creek bottom for a few miles in one direction and then back again, pushing the bunnies into the bullberry bushes and surrond them. They panick and run back and forth trying to find a way out. Eventually someone gets a clear, safe shot.
It's a little unorthdox but seems to work well and is great fun.
Last year we had about a dozen hunters and took 22 bunnies.
If you can make it here by Sunday morning you are more than welcome to join in!!
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