djmed 3
rimfire 2
Brag 1
Cuz and Rye.....well, you know I don't keep up with such.

djmed can't make it Thursday, so it will probably be just Cuz (bad back), Rye (sinus infection), Brag, myself and Tiny if he can get off.

Maizie is a little beat up and I mean more than her tail. She has a nagging injury to both an eye and a leg. We’ll probably rest her Thursday….if we can get away without her cries waking the neighborhood.

I think I’ve figured out why I’ve been either, out right missing or needing a followup shot. I’ve been hurrying my shot. A bruise on my right pec was a hint. A clean miss at a jumped rabbit and I saw my shot in the pine needles. I’m shooting 3-6 inches high.

Now, in my defense I have to say that the pines are of the height that your best shot is when your on your knees so you can see up under the lower limbs. One of djmed’s three rabbits came that way.

I finally broke ice and it was on the edge of a narrow bottom where I had quickly killed two rabbits on the previous trip to this property. I moved down the slope towards that spot but he beat me to it. I watched the nearby briars when I thought that he might double back along the path. I took only two steps before I saw if angling away from me across the gap. I fired a single long shot . The rabbit disappeared into the briar patch.
I thought I had missed till Brag and the dogs found him thirty yards further up the hill.

But the two I got wasn’t nearly as fun as one of the two that I missed. I peered down a trail with the dogs running off to my right when I heard something running behind me. I looked back over my shoulder to see a rabbit charging down the path I was on. He saw me at the same time and all he did was shift into a higher gear. I snatched my foot out of the way and fired a quick shot at point blank range….into the dirt beside him. If possible, he accelerated even more as I fired a follow-up shot into a pine tree. My shots were quickly followed by the sound of djmed’s 12 ga and Rye’s Sweet 16, both missing. Rye said that the sager was really moving by the time he flashed past him.

Djmed was the one with the hot hand today. He killed one in a clean bottom after the rabbit had cleared a small creek in a single leap. That jump impressed djmed to no end. That boom from his 12 ga is really impressive to, since we’re more used to the bangs of the 16ga’s that Rye and I use and the 20’s that Brag and Cuz favor.

All the rabbits that we got today were smallish sagers except for my second rabbit which was a small buck. None of the rabbits we’ve been taking on this property have been big. But they have been fast.

Just not fast enough