The Rabbit Journal originally started out as a way to amuse family and friends. But it has started to attract other rabbit hunters and to you I say "Welcome". Feel free to comment, email and suggest. Just keep it clean
the t shirt man. As a side note, I can understand why a man would want to live in Auburn....not that I would since I'm married to the lovely GF who makes all those 20 year old coeds pall in comparison.
Anyway.
I went to the new hunting club yesterday to do a little looking around.
I saw 2 rabbits. The first was sitting in one of the club roads right by the gate. I pulled out the camera and turned it o, but everything is out of focus. It worked the last time it was out of the case, so I have no idea what happened. Hopefully, it is a common problem with a setting or something and can be fixed by the local guys,
Unfortunately, this club will be ADS(after deer season) as far as rabbit hunting goes.
The good news is I think we could hunt there every weekend in Februaryi went to the new hunting club yesterday to do a little looking around.
It is 8600 acres. The land goes over to and across the road that goes to the county lake. It's close to where we hunted before. Lots of young clear cuts and planted pines.
Sounds good. The trouble is we have SO much land to hunt in February, that most would need to take a months vacation to cover half of it.
Maybe we need to start agitating at the Alabama CAB meetings to have deer season end on 15 January or earlier and we'll let them start 1 October or maybe even in September
on The Rabbit Journal Pack only four days before opening. It's not pretty
Penny is on the disabled list with a torn toenail. Probably from her remodeling of one of the doghouses. It now has 2 skylights, a side entrance and a bolt hole in the back, Her return by opening day is in doubt.
Lucy, the beaner, has put on a great deal of weight this inactive summer. She wheezes like a two pack a day smoker after a short race.
Katie is looking good as usual, though I still wonder if she was running that deer silent or just tagging along, following the pack.
Sammy is looking good. He just needs more training.
Sallie Mae has ran a deer twice. She needs the collar
Sissy, is a big ? She has shown very little interest in a race after ten to fifteen minutes.
The price of gasoline and the chores at Rabbit Run put a serious damper on my summer training
Thinwater here, what a honor to be able to post something on The Rabbit Journal. I've been working on a 22 rifle since June to enhance the sights on it to be able to shoot long distances without a scope. I already had a Henry Goldenboy 22lr and decided that I would put a globe and tang sight on this gun because it was already an accurate gun, and I could affort to shoot it when finished. This project took way longer than expected due to lack of information on the parts selected, then lack of correct information when technical information was called at the company. The project finally turned around and I thought I'd post this in a kind of response to our host Rimfire's comment of what we'd been doing this summer.
GF and I are going to spend a few days fishing on the center console, the "2+3" in Apalachicola. We'll blow the horn as we pass through Dothan, BB.
We won't be back until sometime Tuesday. I'll have my laptop and verizon card with me, but I doubt that I will be in a broadband area. Plus, it's doubtful that ya'll be much on my mind anyway. Unless I need to brag some.. lol
Processing the pictures.
Pictures must be processed for the web so that they take up less space, take less time to download for a reader with a dialup, use less bandwidth. Remember I pay for this site, so lets keep it user and wallet friendly.
that I took the liberty of downloading and resizing for publishing on this page.
I hope that's ok, BB.
I'll be glad to walk you through the process one day when you have time
Hey, rimfire and everyone else.
I figured y'all was kinda wondering what I look like for the past year or so, so here is a pic of me at my kennels, a pic of me with Red Man(thanks rimfire and hover)and a pic of my brother. I'm still not sure how to post the picture so ill just keep using photobucket till I figure out.
It's not dead yet, though the enemies on the right and the left have severely wounded it. And a LOT of damage has been done by the guardians of the Constitution, the Federal Courts.
My favorite part?
It's the part "they've" already killed, the Tenth amendment.
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
real bright.
Two weeks before rabbit season and I spilled a pot of boiling water on my feet.
Fortunately, the burns aren't to severe, but I won't be able to wear shoes for a while. And the burns are on the bottom of my feet.
If you'd like to order a shirt or/and a hat that djmed makes, email me your email addy.
If you'd like some other trinkets, rabbit hunters or EARH&SESC (East Alabama Rabbit Hunters & Souse Eaters Social Club) stuff
BB, I need to know the price on the peanut hay and when/how much available. I might have to go in with a couple of others if it's competitive since I only have two cows to overwinter/considering the price of fuel
when I heard that the first Alabama Conservation Advisory Board meeting would be in February in Montgomery. Montgomery is fairly close by and I would be likely to attend if it wasn't for the "February" part.
For the most part, property is closed to us small game hunters until the end of deer season on the 31 of January. That leaves us with four Saturdays of prime hunting and they schedule the first meeting of the 09 calendar on one of them. Either we skip one of the more accessible meetings or we give up 25% ( I have worship on Sunday) of our February weekends.
The weather has a fall feel to it, fed by the storms in the Gulf to the south of us.
The days are getting shorter.
And the supermarkets are putting out pallets of corn in camouflage bags, the better to hide them from the game warden
and Bag Limits have been set. PDF file
Deer season starts on 15 of October reversing the previous two years of creep towards the beginning of October.
Rabbit starts on 1 October and runs through 28 of February.
from Beagler 282, who happens to be a Field Trial dog man.
Rimfire, Thanks for asking about the field trials.
I will be putting on a hunt at the Pine Mountain Beagle Club Sept.6th and Sept.20th in Pine Mountain,GA.
Our entries for registration close at 6am.
We get started shortly there after.Our hunts usually last until lunch time depending on the # of hounds entered.
We welcome newcomers to come out and observe how the trials are run and meet other beaglers. Anyone that owns a beagle registered or not can compete.They just need to register their hound with our org. known as the NKC (National Kennel Club) and join or be a member of a club.If anyone has any questions or needs directions they can reach me at ######. I took out the phone number until Beagler gives me permission to give out his contact number/email addy. Would really like for you to come sometime, rimfire.
Lucy and Penny jumped this morning in the thick water soaked bottom below the ponds dam here at Rabbit Run only a few minutes after I let them out of the pen.
Katie came running back to me with Sammie and Sissy trailing a long. Sallie Mae went with Lucy and Penny chasing the big buck deer that hangs out in the thickets. This time it was a little different, I had Brag's collars on the Aunties and I used them. Rather harshly, I might add.
They broke off and returned to me. We made a circuit along the fence line with the dogs not showing any enthusiasm until we returned to the bottom. This time Lucy, then Penny got rather insistent that they smelled Rabbit. Katie sat next to me for a couple of minutes, head cocked, listening to Penny and Lucy's cold trail bark before she decided they indeed had a rabbits trail and raced into the brush with them.
Lucy was the first to hit it hot, followed by Katie, then Penny. I heard Sammie and Sissy a few times to. It was hard running. The bottom is soaked with seep water and pools left from the hard rains last week. Two of the three overflows are still running in the the pond. I could hear the girls (and Sammie) splashing along, running hot and cold as they acquired the trail and then lost it in the sheets of water.
They played with the rabbit (or maybe the rabbit played with them) for a good forty five minutes before losing the trail for good.
Not a bad morning, but nothing to brag about either.
28 days till the Alabama rabbit season starts
