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Hunting cottontails

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Fox:
sounds like fun! I want to hunt cottontails but wouldnt know where to go, all my hunting grounds are woods. squirrels to are something I've tried but without luck, there always out being noisy when I'm deer hunting but never around when Im looking for squirrels!  :fp

-Fox

Hawkdancer:
Good tips, Trad!  Fox, if you have deer and squirrels, you also have rabbits.  Seeing them is another matter!  Move slow, look a lot, look for the eye, hunt with a dog.  Beagles are very good as are dachshunds.  Bunnies back east don't tend to go to ground as there is usually more cover.  Bow hunting bunnies is fun, especially if you get one or two.  Kenneth, you will get much more " action" with a rabbit hound. And I am pretty sure people have hunted with hounds for millennia- but to each his own!  Good luck and have fun however hunt! :-D :G (B) (-_) (=) -C-!
Hawkdancer

GlisGlis:
it was mentioned some times ago
when they zip away if you shout or whistle loud they sometimes stop and freeze for a split second
enough to send an arrow god willing   (SH)       (B) (B) (B) (B) (B)

Tracker0721:
I think ours are nocturnal or I’m blind. Plenty of tracks on top of the snow but I’ve yet to even have one bust out on me. Before the snow I would just walk the logging roads in the evening and they’d be out eating the grass on the edges.

Hawkdancer:
They are both, mostly more active at night!  Dawn and twilight.  That's were the hound comes in, they can flush the bunnies almost anywhere.  Try to study the "town" bunnies to see their patterns, if you live out where you can hunt them try to follow the tracks to see where they are feeding, and bedding down.  Also, practice your shooting, use flu-flus or tall fletching and a blunt style head.  Or train Ol' Blue" to fetch arrows, if he loses the bunny. (lol) (B). Also, bunnies usually have a home range of about 400 yards in good cover, they tend to circle when chased, if I remember correctly
Hawkdancer

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