Reading Ron's post about rabbit hunting pushed my memory button. And so I don't ambush Ron's thread, I'll post this on a new one.
Back when I was a teen, I lived to hunt. I would beg my dad to take me hunting because here in Michigan, I couldn't hunt alone until I was 16 years old.
I turned 16 the summer before small game season and on opening day, September 15th, it was freedom to be able to go hunting about any time I wanted.
I had a beagle hunting partner that was always eager to accompany me on my treks into the woods, swamps and fields.
After a few weeks of my solo hunting my dad suggested I use his .22 rifle for the rabbits so there wouldn't be lead shot in the meet.
After that a few weeks later he thought I should try my longbow.
That sounded neat to me so that was my weapon of choice from then on.
Now I must add that with the 20ga shotgun I would get two to five rabbits when I would go hunting.
The .22 rifle worked just as good, just get the rabbit in the scope and with a slight lead, that worked every time.
The only problem with my bow would be getting the limbs grabbed by green briers and stuff. Still would get a few rabbits every time out.
Now fast forward to 2011 and my now wife that I'm married to were married that year ( we were both widowed ) and we went to visit my parents.
My dad got to talking about my rabbit hunting as a kid and told my wife about talking me into using the .22 rifle and then my longbow.
He still seemed amazed by my harvesting of rabbits and told her he was trying to find a way to slow down the number of rabbits I would get.
After all those years, I finally found out that my parents were just getting tired of eating rabbits.
Topic: Rabbit hunting as a teenager (Read 1328 times)
