"death warmed over".

Riding with the windows down must not have flushed all of Brag' s bugs out of the truck. I knew I should have caught a ride home with Cuz. I talked to Brag last night to rub it in that Cuz, Rye and I were hunting Pittsview this morning and previewing another site that Cuz says I have to see the number of rabbit tracks.
I told Brag that he should know that you save your sick days to rabbit hunt, not when your really sick, especially when you've already used up most of your vacation days. He still wasn't doing much talking. His voice started cracking early Saturday morning. Monday night, he still sounded awful, but at least he could talk some. That means it's at least a 72 hour bug.

Today's hunt has been canceled

that you would call off the hunt considering the rain” was Cuz’s greeting this morning when we met at one of Columbus Georgia’s overpriced gas stations.

“We couldn’t do that Cuz. We all knew that you had already bought your out of state license and know how tight you are with a dollar. By the way, how's the newest free rabbit dog?”
By the end of the hunt, that bit of sarcasm would come back to bite me on the butt. She is a hunter.

Meeting Brag and I at the station in the light misting rain for a rematch in Ellerlise was Cuz, Rye, Hover and Hover’s friend, Robert.

Mike, the Legend of 315 was to meet us at the property. Legend is a good ol boy, but you have to remember that He Is a deer shooter.
The hills were just as steep as they were on the 08 Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Day Rabbit Hunt. The thing is, the rabbits weren’t as plentiful.
We had a combined pack consisting of

The Rabbit Journal’s surviving hounds after a series of deaths and mia‘s. Katie, Lucy and Brag’s rather useless puppy, Penny were there. Mystery was left in the pen.

Cuz brought his pack consisting of Lacey, Fat Precious and his newest free dog. We were hoping that she worked out better than the last three. She did.

Hover brought a vastly improved Elmer since he had gotten over his tendency to hump anything that would hold still and his newest dog, Dixie. Both hunted well today.
Hover is also a good ol boy who got to hunting with us during the 07-08 pre-season hunts.
He recently killed his first rabbit.
We asked if he was having it mounted since he told us he had calculated that it had cost him almost three thousand dollars in dogs, equipment, guns, shells, gas,……

with guaranteed kills in a never ending season to frustrated deer hunters who think that a 3 ½ + month season is to short

Some Alabama horn hunters would pay several hundred bucks just to shoot one of these trophies, pose for a picture and take the horns, meat be danged

why The Alabama Conservation Advisory Board will meet Saturday, February 9? was the question I posed to Robin Nummy, Assistant to the Commissioner, Alabama DCNR

I'm a rabbit hunter and like most small game hunters, the only time the deer hunters will let us in the woods is after deer season closes. That means for me to attend, I have to give up one of the only four Saturdays we can run rabbits on prime land

rimfire

The reply

There will be 2 more DCNR Advisory Board meetings for 2008 after the February 9th meeting.
March 8, 2008 at Guntersville State Park and probably May 17, 2008 in lower Alabama (yet to be determined).
You can send any of your comments or concerns to this email and I will make sure the Advisory Board Members receive it in their packages.
Please include your name, address and phone number.

Robin Nummy
Assistant to the Commissioner


Well, I decided to take her up on her offer and I strongly suggest that all my fellow rabbit and other small game hunters do to.
Rough draft

To the DCNR Advisory Board

as Uncle NoPass used to say, I'm stiff all over except my peter.
Those are some tough hills.

I also forgot to mention that Plunker fed us Brunswick stew for our tailgate lunch, which reminds me that the semi-annual fund raiser for the Ridge Grove volunteer fire department is the third Saturday in March. I plan to stop by and visit Plunker and eat some fine q and stew.....that's if I'm not chasing specks and reds in Apalachicola.

that the Rabbit Journal’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Day Rabbit Hunt was a unqualified success despite the cold.
Hush up Vern.


The land hadn’t changed any since last year when djmed wanted to know if all the land was a uphill climb.
You would climb to the top of a hill and look down in a ravine before turning around to go back down hill only to find out that someone had changed it into a uphill while your back was turned.

We got nine of ten rabbits run. The only one that got away ran only twenty five yards or so before diving into a armadillo hole
Brag got two.
Blain, one of the two teats on the hunt, got two.
Dustin, the other teat and Cuz’s grandson, got one that took eight shots before he was in the bag. I hasten to add that Dustin didn’t shoot the eight shots. At least at that particular rabbit.

Tommy, Dustin’s dad, got one.

Your host, Rimfire got…..well, you know I don’t keep up with such.
Oh ok, I’ll tell

will be in Ellerslie, Georgia.
Sorry about the short notice. Brag planned the hunt and details just got firmed up.
I haven't heard back from djmed or Hover.
I couldn't find One Dog's home phone.
Cuz and Rye, being old farts that seldom leave Alabama, are unlikely.
Plunker has confirmed

at the deer hunters, the Alabama Conservation Advisory Board is meeting, February 9 in Montgomery

Figures, that they would schedule the only meeting in my area during virtually the only true rabbit hunting month we have

The Alabama Conservation Advisory Board will meet Saturday, February 9, in the State Capitol Auditorium, located in Montgomery. This is the first of three meetings of the Advisory Board during 2008. Registration for those wishing to address the board will be from 8 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. The meeting will begin promptly at 9 a.m.

The Conservation Advisory Board assists and advises on matters relating to the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. The Board is composed of 10 members appointed by the governor for alternating terms of six years, and three ex-officio members in the persons of the Governor, the Commissioner of the Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries, and the Director of the Alabama Cooperative Extension System. The Commissioner of the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources serves as the ex-officio secretary of the Board.

on an abbreviated, spur of the moment hunt with Cuz, Rye, Brag and Savannah .
Penny the pup, got a taste of the electric pine limb as did her partner in Crime, Lucy.
They settled down and turned up a buck rabbit for Cuz to shoot after a short race.


The next race lasted almost two hours with the hunters circling from a hardwood bottom to a pine hillside before, once again Cuz got the shot

One bad

djmed got ripped off

Well, Happy New Year.

My house got burglarized yesterday, door kicked in.
The only things stolen:
A5 browning lt 12
Rem 870 20 gauge
Ruger 10/22

Luckily my other shotgun and my deer rifle were not in the gun cabinet.
I gave the investigator the serial #'s this morning, but i don't expect to ever see them again.
djmed

The other a good one
Thinwater sends this picture of Kyacker's new dog boxes

at least for some of us. Especially if your name is Brag who was three for three. As a matter of fact, he was the only one that got a shot other than one hunter who, remaining nameless, fired both barrels from his old Fox with no effect beyond shredding a couple of bushes.

We met at the front gate of our hunting lease on a pine plantation, only a mile or so from senic downtown Seale, Alabama. We being defined as Brag, Cuz, Rye, Rimfire and both Cuz’s and the Rabbit Journal’s pack of rabbit dogs. Dustin, one of the senior teats, and Cuz’s grandson met up with us later during our first good race

The girls behaved and ran well.

Brag killed the first rabbit on a long race that ended when he doubled back across the road near the cabins


My first, second and only shots came as a rabbit streaked across a narrow lane of winter rye.
Brag had suggested that we tromp through a patch of briars that had yielded a tiny rabbit that circled repeatedly during the pre-season races. Only a few feet into the patch, Brag’s calls of “woodpile, rabbit rabbit” brought the girls to his side. I hustled down the lane just as the rabbit sprinted across.
The girls came across hard on it’s track right after my shots.
The race continued for about fifty yards before the girls shutup. Soon they were trotting back up the trail.
It was suggested that I had actually managed to hit a rabbit and it had died down the trail.
I doubted that.
Katie usually carries the rabbit back to us and she was empty mouthed this time.
Brag and I retraced where I had shot, looking for hair. The girls milled around. But we couldn’t find a trace of the rabbit.
We were moving on, when Rye stepped onto the trail where I had shot and shouted for the dogs. The rabbit had froze after my second shot in a tiny bush, unseen by both human and dog eyes till he panicked when Rye stopped next to him.
Brag killed him not long after the race resumed.

The last race was a loong one that ended in a wide open clearcut. Stumps in the area were covered with rabbit pills. Strange since the hawks and coyotes have driven most rabbits into thick cover. I’m sure we’ll be hitting the area on a return match

Thankgoodness for the “we” system of counting rabbits
We got 3
Brag 3

are heading off on a spur of the moment afternoon hunt in Seale.
Details on the evening news.
Ok, I really don't want to make the evening news. Details later

"Make sure you tell them that, 2."

"Well, I still don’t understand exactly what your doing and quite frankly, I don’t want to. I want complete deniability about this when I have to tell GF that you fell off the dang roof and broke your fool neck" was 2's reply

I thought that through and since I didn’t want to take all the blame I made sure that I took some pictures that implicated 2 in the process
What we were doing was putting a cap on the chimney at Rabbit Run after dumping a mixed load of bluegill, copper nose and shell cracker into the 3/4 acre pond

I told you about the metal roof and that it was slicker than owl …., well it’s really slick.

The theory that I had was to use the tractor with the bucket that tends to slip because of its hydraulics to push the ladder up and brace it at the edge of the roof, lowering it down with a piece of rope, next to the chimney. 2 would stand by the tractor and jiggle the bucket control to keep it raised. I would then use another ladder to climb into the bucket and then scale the first ladder to the chimney.

Funny thing about it?