A different way to hunt rabbit.

[calsibley]

I used to have a Buick Skylark convertible. I'd prop my rump up on a few telephone books and cruise slowly through the fields at dawn. I was propped up enough to shoot over top of the windshield at any bunnies I'd encounter. I'm not saying it was ethical, but I sure got my share of rabbits. Today I'm embarrassed to even recall having done something like that, but it sure worked well. Best wishes.

Cal - Montreal

[jimh]

you should be embarressed for getting rid of that Buick Convertable !!!

[bounce]

Cal, I used a 1022 and a spotlight from a 1973 Chevy Caprice Convertible on coon's once upon a time!!

[Bubba]

Back in the Day... I'm talking 30 years ago... when my son was young... we used to drive up and down the old country roads and "snipe" rabbits from the car window with an old Marlin bolt action 22 I owned.... I'd see one sitting on the shoulder of the road and pop it with the LR.... the kid would jump out of the car, run and pick it up and we'd head further down the road... some mornings we'd get 4 or 5 in an hour... it sure beat running them with dogs for a half hour to "maybe" get a shot... lol... That was a long time ago...

[klsm54]

I remember a few "Old-timers" telling me about laying on the fender of a car (Model -T) and shooting rabbits with a 22. You could see their eyes in the headlights....

This was in the depression, people had to eat, who cared about legal....

Today, around my parts, you'd be better off to buy a good steak, it'd be cheaper than drivin' all night looking for the last rabbit in the county.... ;D

[bounce]

My two brothers had a 1940 Chev 2 door sedan That my dad bought for them for a school car, It allso worked well for hunting Jack Rabbits at night in alfafa fields. Needed to trust the driver though!! just sit on the fender stratling the head light and plant your heels behind the backside of the front bumper and a 5 shot Win. 97 You could grab the hood orniment when not shooting too to hang on. in thouse days sometimes you could get a trunk full in a couple of hours!!

[Bubba]

Reading some of these posts puts me in mind of my Uncle Juney.... he was kind of the outcast of the family but the only one that took time to teach me what he knew about duck hunting and fishing for stripers.... when the family had a get-together... Uncle Juney was fishing or hunting... anyway, we used to take his old Ford truck on the Jones' Beach Causway going west bound .... and kick all the dead rabbits and pheasants off the road when we got to the end of the road, we'd turn around and do the same thing east bound..... when we got to the bridge we'd turn around again.... The round trip took about 2 hours... then we'd start west bound again and anything dead on the road was fresh road kill.... Uncle Juney would stop the truck and I'd go pick up whatever it was.... heck it was only dead at the most 2 hours so he'd bring it home, clean them up and have them for supper.... I know it sounds discusting but if the rabbit wasn't too chewed up ... it was good meat....

One day I'm going to write a book about Old Uncle Juney and some of his antics ... he is really something else....

[Bill]

Sounds to me like a Yellow Line Yummie. Remind me to post the Knox County Cook book about Yellowline yummies sometime. Some of the descriptions will gag a maget.
I use to hang with Bounces neighbor to the north when I was in school. His dad use to sit us on the fenders of the 55 ford with broom handles, When we saw eyes in the headlights we would whack them with the broom handle. Worked well on rabbits and pheasants both,

[donnie]

That explains some of the manuevers I've seen you make in the field! Also explains why you cast a flyrod the way you do............LOL!!!!!!!