PARKER RABBIT HUNT

[mobirdhunter]

Originally Posted by CraigThompson

After going with my cousin a couple times and being informed by a member here “it just ain’t right to shoot rabbits that aren’t being run by beagles” . If you kick them up before the beagles hit I was informed do not shoot

But ya gotta have beagles.

[Woodcock survey]

Originally Posted by Garry L Gordon

But ya gotta have beagles.

35 years or so ago i had 4 beagles and 2 high school age sons who needed some thing constructive to do after the bird season ended. we ran the dogs every Sunday year round and hunted them Sat, and school vacations till their ribs were showing, they looked abused except for there muscle structure.
The rule was no shooting on the jump and the dogs had to run 15 minutes before you could load your gun. As they got better they switched to .22 rifles then pistols. The dogs when coming to where a rabbit was killed acted discussded and gave us a very hard look before going off searching again.
Kept two boys busy and out of mischief and got them a lot of time in the woods that taught them how to also hunt deer in that the same discipline applies to both.
I really miss those days, my last beagler friend died 5 years back and now when i hear a hound running i just listen to the chase and remember those days.

[mobirdhunter]

I’d sure like to go on a rabbit hunt using beagles again. I got to go several times when I was a kid at the invitation of friends. What a special way to hunt. I’d also like to hunt deer again over hounds…and carry a Parker while doing it.

Wishful thinking.

(Thanks for this post!)

[Woodcock survey]

Originally Posted by Garry L Gordon

I’d sure like to go on a rabbit hunt using beagles again. I got to go several times when I was a kid at the invitation of friends. What a special way to hunt. I’d also like to hunt deer again over hounds…and carry a Parker while doing it.

Wishful thinking.

(Thanks for this post!)

Rutledge writes that rabbits and deer with hounds, if you know one you know the other.
I have a VH 30 inch full and mod. the same as his and would love to get the chance to go on a deer hunt with hounds. Not so much to kill a deer but to listen to the hunt and be part of it.
Where i grouse hunt in Maine the bear season for hounds is open in Oct. and when a hunt is heard we will follow it at a distance to listen to it and we have returned a few lost hounds to the guides. I have no desire to kill a bear but love the hunt.

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by Daniel Carter

Rutledge writes that rabbits and deer with hounds, if you know one you know the other.
I have a VH 30 inch full and mod. the same as his and would love to get the chance to go on a deer hunt with hounds. Not so much to kill a deer but to listen to the hunt and be part of it.
Where i grouse hunt in Maine the bear season for hounds is open in Oct. and when a hunt is heard we will follow it at a distance to listen to it and we have returned a few lost hounds to the guides. I have no desire to kill a bear but love the hunt.

We’re on the same page concerning Rutledge and using a Parker for deer the way they used to do it . I went so far as to talk to Rick Hemingway about doing just such a hunt at his place since it isn’t to far from Rutledge’s old stomping grounds .

[Joe from MO]

Originally Posted by Garry L Gordon

I’d sure like to go on a rabbit hunt using beagles again. I got to go several times when I was a kid at the invitation of friends. What a special way to hunt. I’d also like to hunt deer again over hounds…and carry a Parker while doing it.

Wishful thinking.

(Thanks for this post!)

I might have a way to make that happen, if we can figure out a couple places to go.....

[Stan Hillis]

Originally Posted by Garry L Gordon

I’d also like to hunt deer again over hounds…and carry a Parker while doing it.

Wishful thinking.

(Thanks for this post!)

I got to do that again a couple years ago, but carried my big 32" HE grade Super Fox, with 3" chambers. It was great fun. There are still a few people around here that run deer with dogs, but the laws have made it very hard to do legally, as there is now an acreage minimum on the size of the property the dogs are released on.

I even got a shot but the deer was running flat out through brush and trees when it came near me and I just flat out MISSED!

[mobirdhunter]

Originally Posted by Stan Hillis

I got to do that again a couple years ago, but carried my big 32" HE grade Super Fox, with 3" chambers. It was great fun. There are still a few people around here that run deer with dogs, but the laws have made it very hard to do legally, as there is now an acreage minimum on the size of the property the dogs are released on.

I even got a shot but the deer was running flat out through brush and trees when it came near me and I just flat out MISSED!

I'm envious, Stan. When I was a kid we belonged to a very modest hunt club (some guys from church who knew a local judge who owned land). It was mostly stand hunting on this small 400 acre tract, but on occasion the hunt masters would bring a small beagle to roust out the bedded deer in a thorn and honeysuckle field. For a kid, it was a grand affair, and I remember the only time a buck was run by us -- I, with my Pop, sitting on a log waiting. Pop let me have his 12 gauge Winchester auto, and he carried a Stevens 20 gauge double (both of which I still have). The small buck bounded up, Pop shot and apparently missed. I, with the heavy hardware, sat on the log with my mouth open. Pop never said a word about my not shooting...and I never told about his inglorious miss.

Oh, for those days again!