Rabbit Hunting - Limit Hunts Sat/Sun

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Joeyman
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Had a nice time hunting this past weekend. A friend joined me for a hunt on saturday and I hunted by myself on sunday. We saw plenty of rabbits on both hunts.

Saturday my buddy and I counted 12 or 13 rabbits jumping across a 1/8 stretch of road that led us to the hunting grounds. Never seen so many like that before. We parked up a bit from where we seen all those rabbits and slowly worked our way towards that direction. Dogs put about 14 rabbits on the run. I was about to knock out my limt and my buddy ended up getting two rabbits and missed about another 4 or so. Some rabbits seemed like they disappeared after a short run or after they were shot at. We hardly covered any of the ground on this hunt.

Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKWHxlIVWf4

Leah and little Suzy put on a heck of a sight chase on a wounded rabbit. little suzy hates a rabbit bad and she tends to tear them up some which I don't care for.

leah with a retrieve after a good sight chase.

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rabbit ran down this path but didn't make it past me :biggrin:

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I am starting to like my Green Bay Shooter Female Pup more and more. She is steadily improving and turning out to be a fine young female hound

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Holding my Limit of 6 rabbits

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Sunday morning rolled around and i had second thoughts on even going hunting but I forced myself to get up and slammed a redbull and out the door I went. Loaded all the hounds and got to truckin for a Solo hunt just me and the hounds. It was a HEADSHOT fest!

Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJnowMenwXw

some of the cover

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This is the best for hunting you can find. I love places that have downed trees with overgrown cover around.

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Headshot Joeyman style. Rabbit hopping slowly and you put the bead just a half inch above his head and skim the top. Tried my best with video after the shot. Took me a good while to even see him running thru all that tall warm season grass

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This was a thru the ear shot.

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Got my limit and headed home. Can't beat that. Plenty More could of been had. I just covered a small thicket.

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ENJOYED THE CLIP AND PICS JOEY, KEEP EM COMIN.

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Great hunts joey :)

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looks like a good time to me.

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great job joey, nice shooting!!! So where can meet you sat am? LOL. I am impressed with dog handling, very important to me, some people dont care , but I like to see that. If you want try shooting and video same time, they sell a flexible tripod like 6" tall to mount camera onto and put into top pocket while you video, here is alink to a video I took last year, the same way http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uww3ftOA1r8 , I just bought a small camera that mounts to hat in front, will see how works next time out.
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Awesome vid Joey, as always. I have a question for you. How do you get all your places to hunt? Do you have a method? Would you mind sharing how you find and get permission to hunt so many great places? Thanks!

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Bellmorekennels wrote:great job joey, nice shooting!!! So where can meet you sat am? LOL. I am impressed with dog handling, very important to me, some people dont care , but I like to see that. If you want try shooting and video same time, they sell a flexible tripod like 6" tall to mount camera onto and put into top pocket while you video, here is alink to a video I took last year, the same way http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uww3ftOA1r8 , I just bought a small camera that mounts to hat in front, will see how works next time out.
Anthony
I tried filming and shooting and I kept missing. So now camera off. One shot Kills and hurry up turn the camera back on.

I'm trying right now to purchase a Thompson Center Encore with a 12" barrel. I can hold a camera in one hand and shoot with the other.
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:shock: ........you actually killed some bunnies?!?...........that is so unlike you Joeyman!!! ;)

In typical style you're already laying the smack down on the rest of us! Sure looks and sounds like a good place to hunt.........way to go man! :nod:
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Nice job Joey! Our cover is nothing like that here in NC. We got rabbits but it is thick!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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