The American Beagler Forum

ok guys lets hear your thoughts on this one im puzzeled to know end,,,,,,,i have a brush lot about 115 yards wide and about a 1/8 mile long,,,,,,,it is mangled with rose brush thick honey suckle and vines,,,,,,on one side is a cut corn field on the other is a 9 acre woods,,,the terrian is very sandy and dry,,,,,,,my hounds jump a rabbit in this thicket and can run all day but if it hits the field or woods the blow up like crazy,,,,,,,like the rabbit vanishes,,,,,,,im puzzeled,,,,,,,

You wouldnt live anywhere near the Burmuda(sp) triangle would ya?

It's all about the senting! The rabbit running through the weeds and thickets, is putting alot of sent on a lot of cover, in which the hounds can follow! You put that same rabbit in the field or in the woods, and it has less cover to rub against, leaving less sent! Not to mention, it's probably much drier in the woods and field, escpecially with the leaves falling.

Pheasant ?

uh oh.... time to switch flavors again. lets go with some otterbrook stuff this month. i hear they have really good noses.

jo-jo you aint dead yet,,,,,,,

having almost the same problem here,Its so dry, we havent had any rain for over two months.

groundhog holes, hollow logs, rabbit gone to ground in one of these? I once had a hound that seemed to quit after running about 50 yards to a dirt road, only in this one place. One day one of the guys with me shot the rabbit crossing the road and swore he hit it. We found it in the bottom of a hole in the ground about big enough for a rabbit, about a full arm's length deep, right at the other edge of the road hidden by an overhanging bush. Rabbits do weird stuff.

well its got me puzzeled,,,,,,i have ran over to the woods when dogs jump one to see what it does but i have never seen a rabbit,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,but i know they are crossing because i have shot them when they go across the road way,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,but like i said in the first post this place is a dang jungle,,,,,,,,,rabbits may be just setting tight in the honey suckle hoping dogs wont get to them,,,,,,,,,,,,,i dont know,,,,,,,,,,

Ringtail,
Could you go to this place and video tape this happening for all of us to see.
Maybe then we could give you a better idea of what is happening?

I wouldnt get to close to where the place is where the rabbit is dissapperaring tho.
When this happens do your dogs seem scared or just confused?

This question here has got me stumped but if I could see it actually happening, maybe I could give you my view point.

By the way I would take somebody with me when I went there or I would at least tell my wife where I was going and when to exspect me back.

swing this has got me concerned to,,,,,,,,,,,i thought there might be nest of copper heads in there because i got a young dog that was on fire on a track one day hit the woods ran it about 50 yards just a screaming but then started yipping like he was shot , came running out of the woods just a hellin tail tucked under his belly,,,,,,,,,heto this day will not get off my heels at this lot anywhere else he hunts like a trooper,,,,,,,,i honestly think its snakes,,,,,,i think this is why its so hard to push a rabbit out of the thicket,,i think thier scared to,,,,,,,,,,just a wierd thought,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,jeff