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The brown pups will sell for a tad more than the tri's

]]> Puppy http://www.therabbitjournal.com/journal/index.php?itemid=1449 Mon, 6 May 2013 07:03:41 -0700 http://www.therabbitjournal.com/journal/index.php?itemid=1447 3 chocolates and 7 black/white/brown as well as I can tell
those of you who are in need of a new hunting dog could do a lot worse than these

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]]> General http://www.therabbitjournal.com/journal/index.php?itemid=1445 Fri, 8 Mar 2013 05:44:21 -0700 http://www.therabbitjournal.com/journal/index.php?itemid=1443 I wanted to talk about the last two hunts but Sallie Mae disappeared during the afternoon of 28 February 2013.
I found her about 8:30 in a ditch near the hunting property in Tuskegee. She was walking in tiny circles and never was the term "soaked to bone" more appropriate.
When I got her home, I saw that she was injured far worse than I had thought.
I'm beginning to hate being the dogman. They are a source of frustration, pride, happiness and sorrow. I didn't want to put her down but I had no choice.

As Uncle NoPass would have said "She was a good'un. Best dog in these parts. Wouldn't run nothing but a rabbit. Everybody said so"



She's the tricolor in our hunt on the Tornado, this year

]]> General http://www.therabbitjournal.com/journal/index.php?itemid=1443 Fri, 1 Mar 2013 06:13:17 -0700 http://www.therabbitjournal.com/journal/index.php?itemid=1440 Our last hunt at Pookies was a unqualified success. At least in the total number of rabbits killed and even I, a notoriously bad shot killed two, one on a loooong shot.
As usual, our host was djmed.

Final Score
Attendees and bagged rabbits in parentheses:
DjMed (1)
Rimfire (2)
Brag (2)
Plunker
Billy Deerdog (5)
David (1)
Dustin (2)
Moo (1)

By the way, does anybody know what kind of plant this is?



]]> Rabbit Hunts 2012-2013 http://www.therabbitjournal.com/journal/index.php?itemid=1440 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 13:18:58 -0700 http://www.therabbitjournal.com/journal/index.php?itemid=1438 No matter where I went in the woods on our Tornado hunt-The other side of the road-, it seemed like there were always two of Dusty1's friends from Auburn behind me
I listened as the dogs completed the turn and were heading in my direction. I watched expectantly at the narrow gap I expected him to cross.
Behind me in the woods, I heard the conversation shift from “hot chicks” in general to what “hot chick” they had chased the night before.
Sigh, couldn't they hear the dogs coming back towards us?
Then there were the same results as the other three times.
“Bam!” “Got him”

How? How could they keep a running conversation going and still get the rabbit while I was mere yards from them and never see the rabbit?
And to make matters worse,, when I did see a rabbit or to be more precise, “ a blur between trees and bushes, I shot three times all misses only to have the rabbit sit still as I fumbled around trying to reload.
Oh well, it still was a good hunt
Buck 0, Dustin-1, Stovall-1, Chris-1, Cody-2(8 or 9 shots)







]]> Rabbit Hunts 2012-2013 http://www.therabbitjournal.com/journal/index.php?itemid=1438 Sun, 24 Feb 2013 15:55:35 -0700 http://www.therabbitjournal.com/journal/index.php?itemid=1436 General http://www.therabbitjournal.com/journal/index.php?itemid=1436 Sun, 17 Feb 2013 19:35:04 -0700 http://www.therabbitjournal.com/journal/index.php?itemid=1435 Good news is that I was high man for the hunt
Bad news was I had only two rabbits
Worse news was Brag and Plunker had 0
We hunted all day long and had race after race only to lose the rabbit after we never seemed to be able to either get in position or see the rabbit in the tough hunting conditions from thick briars, large deadfalls from the tornado or thick saplings laced with vines.

The two rabbits that I did kill were from elevated perches on a high stump and a deadfall jutting out of a bank a good ten foot in the air.



Tough day all around

]]> Rabbit Hunts 2012-2013 http://www.therabbitjournal.com/journal/index.php?itemid=1435 Sun, 17 Feb 2013 19:34:22 -0700 http://www.therabbitjournal.com/journal/index.php?itemid=1434 The only time I had come close was when I jumped a rabbit

and had hung the stock of the shotgun on my vest when I tried to shoot at a needlessly dodging rabbit. And to make matters worse, the dogs were all in a far off bottom trying to run a buck rabbit that didn't know the rules about circling and had headed out on a straight line for the far off bottom.
Late in the afternoon, I listened to the split up pack and decided to cut off the one running in a wide open bottom.
After I waded the creek, I tracked the big buck with the bead on my shotgun as he moved parallel to the creek, out of shotgun range.. He stopped in a small clump of debris and listened to the oncoming Penny Sue and two of Dusty1's dogs.
I thought he would hit the creek and either move up stream away or downstream towards me. As usual for the day, I was wrong.
As the dogs arced down towards him, he broke straight back between me and the dogs. I waited till he was at a comfortable shooting distance before rolling him over. I didn't have to worry about the stock hanging on my vest, I hadn't even lowered the shotgun from tracking him.
“We” killed 13 for the day, an even baker's dozen. But Brag and I agreed that we had to work for the 13. It wasn't the fast bang bang shoot'em up of Pookies two hunts or the first Tuskegee hunt where we killed 15, 13 before lunch.
It was work

Final score compliments of Brag since your gracious host can't remember squat now.


Attendees with bagged rabbits in parentheses:

Brent
Devin (1 w/ it being first rabbit killed on first rabbit hunt w/ dogs)(ed note. Not only that, but it was with a nice head shot to)



Rimfire (2)
Brag (3)



Dusty (2) (below is a quick comparison of one of Brag's rabbits and Dusty1's



Plunker

Dilla (2)
Moo (3)
Quan

]]> Rabbit Hunts 2012-2013 http://www.therabbitjournal.com/journal/index.php?itemid=1434 Sun, 17 Feb 2013 18:50:53 -0700 http://www.therabbitjournal.com/journal/index.php?itemid=1432 Two hunts, Tuskegee and Tornado and it's fixing to be three when we hunt Tuskegee tomorrow

Tuskegee
A lot of fun with 13 rabbits bagged by lunch for a total of 15. I had to cut out early for a funeral, so the hunt was cut short. And we lost a hour and a half when the dogs ran a rabbit into a swamp bottom. More details later such as Brag falling in the creek and special guest Corky Pugh





Brent (1)
Ben
Doug
Eric
Mu (3)
Quan (4)
Rimfire (2)
Brag (4)
Plunker (1)
Gary
Corky

TornadoAbout the best that can be said for this hunt was I was high man. Yes, I know. I was stunned myself.



Ten + races and only two in the bag
details later

Final Score
rimfire 2]]> Rabbit Hunts 2012-2013 http://www.therabbitjournal.com/journal/index.php?itemid=1432 Fri, 15 Feb 2013 14:23:05 -0700