VH 16 on bun buns !
 

Went rabbit chasing with my cousin and a friend today . Still a fair bit of snow where we went . And we only hunted three hours , but we got three up with only a single shot fired . And I was fortunate enough to be standing in the right place with my McKinny Parker VH 16 gauge 26” gun . Hopefully I’ll get another invite :cool:

Rabbit hunters down here don't like people who shoot the rabbits. They just want to hear the music.

Thats the first rabbit I ever killed in front of Beagles , any rabbit I've killed in the previouse 60 years was a thing of oppurtunity .

I love hunting with beagles. My dad always kept several at the farm. We hunted them all winter. There are two type of beagle owners. Those who gun hunt with them and those who run them at night. The night runners are the ones who do it just to sit around a fire and listen to the hounds.

Straightened from a PC . Well I tried straightening the damn things twice and still cock eyed .

Rabbit is excellent table fare, I can't imagine going rabbit hunting just so I can hear a dog bay...... But, to each their own I rek'n.

I grew up hunting rabbits over dogs back in the 70's.... We used to raise a litter now and then. Been a couple years now since I hunted them over dogs, I will probably walk my place sunday with a 16ga in hand, as Archery deer season closes on Saturday.

Try this one Craig.

Sure are tired of looking at pictures sideways!

Chuck, pick your head off the desk and the screen will be upright! :rotf:

So....like fox hunting now in England where you can't shoot the fox. If that's what hunting comes to eventually God help us.

My sons growing through their teen years hunted over beagles every Sat. holiday and school vacation. We had cottontails although on the northern edge of their range and 100 miles south of good Hare range. A start was honored with a 15 minute pause before the rabbit could be shot. A rabbit each was our self imposed limit, for them, none for me. We had permission from an elderly hunter who brought in hares from Canada on his land, the boys could shoot 1 but i was along for the chase and to listen to the dogs.
None of us felt deprived in any way we were just taking care of what we had and making it last. Those poor dogs were ribs showing by the end of Christmas break.
It really is about the chase and not the kill.

Ha! The cacophony of barking hounds. To each his own. Some folks even call “jazz” music. I guess I prefer the hounds.

-Victor

My neighbors on two sides ride to the hounds . They also frown at me as they know if Mr. Fox comes by when I’m sitting in a treestand behind my house more than likely Mr. Fox breathes no more .

Bring your snow shoes!:)

My cousin and our friend told me we’d go a couple more times . I’d like to get four or five in the freezer . In the morning I’m thinking about bothering the tree rats , they should be out and about before the snow comes after lunch .

I like jazz sometimes and the bagels didn’t sound bad thursday either !

takre the big guns for squirls I do a lot...charlie

Craig, I had to read this twice. I thought for a minute this was a new culinary sensation -- bunnies and bagels.:rotf: I thought it was maybe like rabbit on toast, but hey, beagles, bagels, whatever spellcheck gives you.

BUT, you now have me thinking I might need to dig out my 26" VH and go behind the house in the snow and trail a few bunnies. I've got 20 acres of good bunny habitat out my back door. If only I had some bagels...er...beagles.:bigbye:

That wasn’t spell check , that was intentional :whistle: I’ve got a VHE 20 26” that hasn’t killed anything but skeet targets I might take that if it works out I go with them again .

If I make it out in the morning I’ve got a DH 16 32” 2 frame on my ATV as well as my suppressed 10/22 . The way they hung around during deer season I’m going to go up a tree with my climber and perhaps I can pot a few . Snow is supposed to be here by 11 AM so thinking if I get out by 8 I might kill a couple or so . Then go in the house and try the Arkansa squirrel skinning method .

Well, I must say that I like the idea of bunnies and bagels, whether a culinary item or a play on words.

I hope you don't get the snow that we did over night -- a wet and heavy mess. I remember VA snowstorms growing up and the way they paralyzed the roadways.

Enjoy your hunt.

The earlier snow postponed a quail deal we had planned for the day after the snow and we changed the date to this coming Tuesday . I’m hoping it’ll be a very slight snow that goes away Monday or the quail deal will have to be moved a second time .

Well you just cant tell anyone you shot it :whistle:

Or like this guy who hunts cats.

https://www.thecentralvirginian.com/...b8a582259.html

Actions like this are not good for the public’s perception of hunting (and in many places are illegal as this case presented). You also have to wonder about his taking a photo, saying to a stranger that he shot the cat, and supplying the photo as evidence — not smart.

I hate free roaming cats as much as anyone for the billions (yes, with a “B”) of birds and other critters they wantonly kill in a year, but this guy’s actions are not the best way to deal with the problem.

I looked at the law in this case and it also protects feral cats. I don't understand why cats shouldn't have the same requirements as dogs and be vaccinated and require a license as well as it must be on the animal. Feral cats are a nuisance as you say and to give small game predators protection is crazy. My uncles has two English setters that would tag team every cat they found. One chased while the other waited for it to come by and the problem was solved.

Jerry, you're preaching to the choir. Something needs to be done.