PARKER RABBIT HUNT

[J. A. EARLY]

Originally Posted by Andrew Sacco

Share your favorite recipe please, I have one in the freezer.

Par boil until tender. Flour or use your best/favorite chicken batter and brown at high oil heat then simmer with a lid on and onions until done. Add flour to oil to make gravy. As we say in the South, eat with "light bread" (white sandwich bread).

[Andy]

Jerry that sounds just delicious.

[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.....

[Woodcock survey]

Jerry thank you for the videos, brings back a lot of memories.

[J. A. EARLY]

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

We never shoot rabbits going from the bed. The greatest fun is hearing the beagles run and trying to find the rabbit sneaking by you in the thicket.

[mobirdhunter]

Jerry, I finally located the videos—wonderful stuff! Was that at Amelia WMA? If so, my Pop and I have quail hunted there.

[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!

[J. A. EARLY]

Originally Posted by Garry L Gordon

Jerry, I finally located the videos—wonderful stuff! Was that at Amelia WMA? If so, my Pop and I have quail hunted there.

Gary,

We were hunting on a farm that had been in a friend's family for a couple of centuries. About ten miles from the WMA, past the courthouse. The son has cleaned some land and it has grown into briars. We found all of the rabbits in one small area. My cousin said that at this time of year that is common as they are getting together as things warm up. This is the first time I have videoed rabbit hunts. Turkey and rabbit hunts are great to video as there is a lot of vocalizations to be heard.

[Mike of the Mountain]

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

Craig, it's like hunting grouse, the locals say "Shoot 'em where you see 'em!!" I agree with the locals. As long as the dogs are nowhere near the critter, it is fair game.