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Post by deputydon on Aug 6, 2008 10:04:22 GMT -5
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Post by Purebred Redneck on Aug 6, 2008 11:12:51 GMT -5
Ours doesn't open up till October 1st but no one hunts until around christmas usually. The neighbor the other day decided to shoot 14 in his garden
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Post by klsm54 on Aug 6, 2008 11:41:15 GMT -5
No Rabbit hunting here until the last Saturday in October. There isn't enough bunnies here to train a dog on.
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Post by jimh on Aug 6, 2008 13:24:23 GMT -5
i don't know what the rabbit population will be like out in the country, but here in the county we're at an all time high. i've never seen so dang many rabbits.
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Post by bounce on Aug 6, 2008 14:00:55 GMT -5
I just wish 1/2 the cotton tails were whitetailed jacks then it would be fun again. Black tails would be fine too. But catching rabbit is no problem for the hawks around hear. Hope that eases the presure on my Phesants?
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Post by twomoons on Aug 13, 2008 13:53:01 GMT -5
D/D If Gramps could get ahold of you he'd skin you. No rabbit hunting tilll after the first hard frost EVER!!! We couldn't even shoot them out of the garden till we could eat them. Come frost time I'll be gald to help and Galen S want's a good rabbit hunt this year too.
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Post by klsm54 on Aug 13, 2008 14:51:25 GMT -5
Yeah twomoons, now that you mention it that is why our season starts as late as it does. I guess any bunnies that have Tularemia are supposed to die off after the first killing frost.
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Post by bounce on Aug 13, 2008 16:16:52 GMT -5
I was allways told not to eat warm weather rabbits, Especialy if they are Jackrabitts, wait till the weather is freezing. But this was for eating only not shooting...smiles...
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Post by Bubba on Aug 13, 2008 16:43:34 GMT -5
Heck, we can't hunt cottontails until the Monday after Thanksgiving. Then they're few and far between. I wish you guys out in Nebraska could ship us a couple hundred thousand of them so we could boost our wild population.
The problem is there's plenty of them in populated areas... like people's back/front yards but none where you can hunt them.
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Post by jimh on Aug 13, 2008 17:34:08 GMT -5
Bubba we're in the same boat here in st. louis
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Post by jabba on Aug 15, 2008 6:20:37 GMT -5
Here too. I have not hunted rabbits in 20 years REALLY. I've killed a few while pheasant hunting.
IU sure would LIKE to go though.
My GSP hunts rabbits too. He's pretty good at it too.
Jabba
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Post by Purebred Redneck on Aug 15, 2008 9:24:12 GMT -5
The problem is there's plenty of them in populated areas... like people's back/front yards but none where you can hunt them. Box traps
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Post by Bubba on Aug 15, 2008 12:03:57 GMT -5
Red, boxtraps would be a good answer to the problem but we're not allowed to trap them here in Delaware (live or dead). There's a list of animals we're allowed to trap.. i.e. muskrats, coons, 'possums and otters and nothing else. I'd like to be able to trap some of the "urban" rabbits and relocate them to the farm but if I get caught, there's a stiff fine involved.
We used to have a crap-load of rabbits on my little farm. I mean, we used to kill 12 to 16 rabbits every time we went hunting. However, since Pop quit farming and retired and the farm has turned from a veggie farm to a grain farm the rabbit population has dwindled to almost nothing. Then there's the foxes. The damn little red devils kill more rabbits then I'd care to think about. I kill every fox/ferrel cat I see but when the beans or corn get high, you just can't see them to shoot them. Also, there's one thing I WILL NOT DO AND THAT'S POISON THEM. That's just plain cruel.
So, I'll just keep shooting my one or two a day and hope they keep breeding and we'll have a few around for the next year.
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Post by Purebred Redneck on Aug 15, 2008 12:44:41 GMT -5
Something didn't sound right so I looked at your 2006-2007 regulations www.dnrec.state.de.us/fw/hunttrap2005.pdfYou can indeed trap rabbits page 25 "PROHIBITED METHODS OF TAKE - It is unlawful to: • Use a trap, snare, pitfall, deadfall, cage, net, pen, baited hook, lure, urine, baited field, drug, poison, chemical or explosive to take game, except that muskrats, mink, otter, raccoons, opossum and rabbits may be trapped as permitted by law and bait may used to take deer on private land only." page 27 Box traps may be used by landowners to trap rabbits during the open season. The only thing it says about transporting live rabbits is that you can not transport live rabbits from out of state without a health permit. Contact your county game warden and ask him to be sure. - Trapping rabbits is probably legal during rabbit season - You probably can transport them - You might even be able to do it with only a "small game permit" . In MO we do not need a "trapping permit" to trap rabbit. I'm not sure transporting trapped rabbits is worth your hassle ( you're going to have to catch literally dozens of them). You're going to catch a perfectly good eating rabbit during rabbit season only to turn him loose on the farm in order to blast him to pieces and then eat him ? ;D ;D ;D I think I'd be using a box trap, reach in with leather gloves, pull him out by both hind feet, hit him in the head with the handle of a claw hammer, and eat a nice rabbit without hair and shot
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Post by dovehunter on Aug 15, 2008 14:18:05 GMT -5
Rabbits? What's that? Didn't they become extinct along with the passenger pigeon? You sure would think that's the case around these parts.
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