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Had a decent Sunday rabbit hunt. Hunted for 2 hours ran 4 rabbits. We shot 3 rabbits. Two of those rabbits we wounded. They hobbled their way up a tree. Happened twice. The third rabbit layed down after I shot it. It was still alive. We still had fun. Check out the pics.

First rabbit of the morning



This was the second rabbit. That's my little female Daisy trying to get it out of there for me. LOL

rabbits still got worms here ...aint you havin that problem?...they usually dont die till after the second hard frost

I know that is what everyone keeps saying.

NO WORMS at all. The rabbit in the pic was nice and clean too. No fleas or anything. I checked it pretty good. When we cleaned it I rechecked to make sure. It was a healthy buck rabbit.

When we going on a hunt Yellowdog. I want to see some of your dogs run. How about the first week Jan at Bush. I'm planning on taking the first week of Jan off and going on a rabbit shooting spree. We do pretty good there. Especially when they first open up Busch to the public.

count me in ....just give me a holler when it gets closer to the time...

Will do

Awesome pics Joey ...

Where did you hunt? Not trying to steal yours spots, just curious what area of MO you were in.

You should hook up with Swing sometime this season. He really has some nice spots that hold a ton of rabbits.

Emery

That was Young CA. Going to hit that place another two times. That will be it till next year. I don't mind you asking....heck you can come along I don't care. We ran 4 sunday morning and that was it. That place is usually good for 8 runs. But it was real windy and very dry out. Plus hot. Saw a bunch of rabbit sign so rabbits are plentiful.

I don't know who swing is. Is he on this board at all.

Nice pics. Youngs CA, I thought I seen those trees before.......lol. Thats only about 20 minutes from the house. I don't shoot any there because it's the only spot I have to run durring the week but I was running there one day last season and I had 3 guys come running around a turn in one of the paths. They were going to shoot the rabbit over my dogs untill they seen me standing there with my video camera.......lol

We've ran a whole bunch there. And let me tell you they run. They sure do seem as if they've been ran before. They haul azz. I like when they cross the creek back there. They head for the cliff near the powerlines. If you know where I'm talking about Ryan. I've been up there before and it is pretty thick. You got them rabbits trained that's for sure. They like to hide.

I like the pic with the dog in the tree, thats a good one

Great action pics. The all white dog is prettty cool looking. Will that dog get any color to it as it gets older?

LOL, Have you had any go into that small cave down by the creek to the left? One other funny thing that happened while running down there. I pulled up one day and noticed a bunch of BMW's and Lexus's and thought it was odd, so I asked a lady that was getting out of her car what was going on. She said they were having a butterfly viewing party. Well I thought I would be nice and ask if she would mind me running my dogs, she said no problem at all......lol. Well after about an hour or so of running the rabbit hit the field where the group of people were watching the bugs. A few seconds later the dogs came driving right threw the middle. The same lady that said she didn't mind me running my dogs left her groop and walked about 200 yards up to me and started yelling at me about how obnoctious my dogs were and how bad of a person I was for letting my dogs chase the rabbit. She told me I wasn't allowed to hunt there, so I caught up the dogs and went to load them in the truck. Before I left I got one of those pamplets they have at all the CA's and highlighted the section with the hunting rules and stuck it under her windshield wiper. While I was driving home I started thinking about her telling me I couldn't hunt there and it made me wonder, out of the 12 or so people in that group that were out there enjoying the CA how many have ever bought hunting liscenses and tags to help with the purchase and up keep of the property they didn't want me on............LOL

Hahahaha lol.....that was a good one. I bet those people never seen or let alone hear a beagle in hot pursuit. Especially at Young CA were the dogs echo thru-out the whole place. I bet you can hear the dogs running from a couple miles away. Just something about that place sound travels.

When we first started to hunt there about 4 years ago. Dogs use to get all the way to the edge of the creek at that lower field and stop. I would go back there and wonder where the rabbit went. Dogs couldn't figure it out either. Untill one day the dogs went down the creek edge and onto the other side and kept running the rabbit. I was amazed. So then we crossed the creek and it was like a whole other world. Thick as can be...pure rabbit country. As long as rabbits keep hiding up there they will always be plentiful.