Rabbit Hunting

[paul adams]

We hunted rabbits around Brighton, Mi back in the mid 70's. A friend had acquired two Beagles from down South. One was very slow and methodical the other a lightening streak. Needless to say with the pair very few beagles escaped. Some great times and memories.

Thanks for starting the post.

[Mike Franzen]

Monday we had 8 inches of snow fall. The first real snow of the season. That's enough snow to pretty much shut everything down in this neck of the woods. I love hunting in these conditions. I took off to a private that I have been going to for over 35 years. When I'm there and the weather is like this, it's like going back in time. The silence is the first thing I notice. No car sounds, no planes just the flapping of song bird wings as they dust snow from their wings. We jump a rabbit burrowed next to a tree and the silence is shattered by the baying of the hounds. They're off over the hill and running in a wide circle. This goes on for about 45 minutes as I just let them run for the pleasure of it. One of those days I'll always remember.

[charlie cleveland]

brings back memories of days gone by..i ve been priveliged to get to hunt in the snow very few times in my life...great picture...charlie

[MarketHunter]

Mike you're making me wanna take out my old Lefever Nitro Special 16 gauge and hold it for a minute. That gun killed many a rabbit in my youth, the last one over my cousin Mark's good hounds in about 1987. He, his brother Gene, and I all hunted during a hard freeze on some public ground and killed three limits in about two hours. Mark retired from school teaching shortly after that and moved to Florida, that was the last of the rabbit hunting I'm sad to say. I tried to buy his dogs after I found out he was moving away, but he'd already promised them to a neighbor.

[Mike Franzen]

Destry next year come on down and hunt some rabbits with me. I'll trade you a rabbit hunt for a goose hunt

[MarketHunter]

That could definitely work.

DLH