PARKER RABBIT HUNT

[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 .