2 rabbits in 167 miles
01-11-2009, 07:01 PM
#1
Nontypical Buck
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2 rabbits in 167 miles
Today i drove 167 miles and seen 2 rabbits now i wasnt
overly looking for them till i seen one and thought how
long has it been since i saw a rabbit. i just thought it was
was odd wasnt too long ago they ran back and forth in front
of you all day long
overly looking for them till i seen one and thought how
long has it been since i saw a rabbit. i just thought it was
was odd wasnt too long ago they ran back and forth in front
of you all day long
01-12-2009, 05:20 AM
#5
Typical Buck
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RE: 2 rabbits in 167 miles
The sidewalk sissies that are moving in to the country also dont help. First thing they do is strip the property. And brush piles are a thing of the past. Limbs that fall off my trees i make piles for cover.
01-12-2009, 07:50 AM
#6
Giant Nontypical
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RE: 2 rabbits in 167 miles
ORIGINAL: cardeeer
The sidewalk sissies that are moving in to the country also dont help. First thing they do is strip the property. And brush piles are a thing of the past. Limbs that fall off my trees i make piles for cover.
The sidewalk sissies that are moving in to the country also dont help. First thing they do is strip the property. And brush piles are a thing of the past. Limbs that fall off my trees i make piles for cover.
Predators dominate the woods today.[:@]
01-12-2009, 09:05 AM
#7
Giant Nontypical
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RE: 2 rabbits in 167 miles
For years I've heard that rabbits are down due to the clean farming practices of today. That sounds logical until you see an abundance of rabbits in suburban yards. Whats "cleaner" than the mowed lawns of suburbia?
Then you go out to the reverting farms we see more and more of today and stomp the goldenrod and greenbrier etc, traditionally good rabbit cover,and see very few.
I don't pretend to know the answer. I'll only say that there must be more to it than simply a lack of good habitat.
Then you go out to the reverting farms we see more and more of today and stomp the goldenrod and greenbrier etc, traditionally good rabbit cover,and see very few.
I don't pretend to know the answer. I'll only say that there must be more to it than simply a lack of good habitat.
01-12-2009, 09:22 AM
#8
Giant Nontypical
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RE: 2 rabbits in 167 miles
ORIGINAL: BTBowhunter
For years I've heard that rabbits are down due to the clean farming practices of today. That sounds logical until you see an abundance of rabbits in suburban yards. Whats "cleaner" than the mowed lawns of suburbia?
Then you go out to the reverting farms we see more and more of today and stomp the goldenrod and greenbrier etc, traditionally good rabbit cover,and see very few.
I don't pretend to know the answer. I'll only say that there must be more to it than simply a lack of good habitat.
For years I've heard that rabbits are down due to the clean farming practices of today. That sounds logical until you see an abundance of rabbits in suburban yards. Whats "cleaner" than the mowed lawns of suburbia?
Then you go out to the reverting farms we see more and more of today and stomp the goldenrod and greenbrier etc, traditionally good rabbit cover,and see very few.
I don't pretend to know the answer. I'll only say that there must be more to it than simply a lack of good habitat.
Yet we have blue herons in every ditch, leave a muskrat in a trap that does not sink right away and all you will have in the morning is what the great horned owl couldn't eat on sight.
We protect every avian predator out there then scratch our azzes wondering why there is no small game. This ain't rocket science.[:@]
01-12-2009, 10:03 AM
#9
Fork Horn
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RE: 2 rabbits in 167 miles
In 24 years of hunting the same tract of land in West Virginia I have only seen 3 rabbits and 1 was decapitated right before I got to it. Squirrel and grouseare every where though, I may actually shoot a few this year, I haven't been squirrel hunting in at least 10 years and obviously I don't hunt rabbit there either. 
01-12-2009, 10:34 AM
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RE: 2 rabbits in 167 miles
ORIGINAL: WestVirginiaBrent
In 24 years of hunting the same tract of land in West Virginia I have only seen 3 rabbits and 1 was decapitated right before I got to it. Squirrel and grouseare every where though, I may actually shoot a few this year, I haven't been squirrel hunting in at least 10 years and obviously I don't hunt rabbit there either.
In 24 years of hunting the same tract of land in West Virginia I have only seen 3 rabbits and 1 was decapitated right before I got to it. Squirrel and grouseare every where though, I may actually shoot a few this year, I haven't been squirrel hunting in at least 10 years and obviously I don't hunt rabbit there either.
Thanks ,jim