PARKER RABBIT HUNT

[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!