rabbits

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Originally Posted by Snowwalker

So that settles it. After deer season( or before) we all show at J's place for coffee, and a BBQ. BUT first a bunny hunt..

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And I’ll make venison burgers. Someone can bring Pheasants and we’ll have an awesome day.

I haven’t hunted rabbits seriously yet this season but will soon. I have got a few indecently while hunting other game.

For those of you who hunt without a dog, do you ever set up and sit near areas with tons of sign? I find it really difficult to find concentrations of sign or rabbits on my travels. But when I find a good bunch of chewed twigs and droppings I try to hang around a while, still don't seem to find them. I'm a shotgun hunter so I typically try to stomp the brush piles and move on.

I make noise when looking for rabbits and prefer to have at least 1 other maybe two people with me. The noise makes them move so I can get a shot off.

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Originally Posted by dean.f

For those of you who hunt without a dog, do you ever set up and sit near areas with tons of sign? I find it really difficult to find concentrations of sign or rabbits on my travels. But when I find a good bunch of chewed twigs and droppings I try to hang around a while, still don't seem to find them. I'm a shotgun hunter so I typically try to stomp the brush piles and move on.

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i heard of people using gym whistles too. makes them freeze they say.
i wonder if it would make them run if they are hiding too...

Yes, a sharp whistle and no movement will sometimes stop them.

When I grew up in NB there were a lot more rabbits back than then what I see here. I could quietly walk through the alders and could spot them from a distance and take them out with my 22. Once my son is allowed to carry his own firearm and we don't have to share (next year yeah), I might go back to using a 22 and let him use the shotgun.

I just might take my Moms old Cooey Sing shot Mohawk out and see if I can find a few rabbits.

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Originally Posted by punkrockerpj

i heard of people using gym whistles too. makes them freeze they say.
i wonder if it would make them run if they are hiding too...

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I don’t have a dog as well so I stomp the young cedars with another person watching the escape roots. A lot of times people forget to look a head of them. Most of the time when people hunt alone they don’t see anything and that’s why, the hare are a head or escaping on the other side of the bush where they don’t see.

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Originally Posted by punkrockerpj

i heard of people using gym whistles too. makes them freeze they say.
i wonder if it would make them run if they are hiding too...

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I don’t know if there’s enough time to blow a whistle before a snowshoe escapes or gets behind another bush. If you have enough time to blow a whistle you have enough time to take a shot

Sometimes gusto letting out a yell will stop them in their tracks, other times it will ignite the afterburners.

I like walking wooded sections with a couple other guys nice and slow. Generally we carried rimfires to keep the practice up but since the decline in population we have let them be.



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Originally Posted by dean.f

For those of you who hunt without a dog, do you ever set up and sit near areas with tons of sign? I find it really difficult to find concentrations of sign or rabbits on my travels. But when I find a good bunch of chewed twigs and droppings I try to hang around a while, still don't seem to find them. I'm a shotgun hunter so I typically try to stomp the brush piles and move on.

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They are night time travelers and a single hare can put down a lot of tracks. Got to kick 'em out of bed if you want to shoot them though.
was a decent amount of tracks in the bush sunday however didn't actually see one.