I just have to say something about rabbit hunting. Not many people do it. Also i noticed not many people talk about it. Rabbit hunting was the thing to do at one time, for me it still is. Nothing better than the sound of a dog running a rabbit. Your friends and family by your side and the dew on the ground with adrenline as the rabbit gets closer. Laugh and enjoyment when one breaks loose out through an open feild and everyone missed lol. Great i tell ya. Some day i hope to hunt birds for upland game but i am in collage and i have a hard time geting time to run my beagle. Bird dogs are even tougher from what i herd from my dad.

Yea i got to agree with you on that . rabbit hunting is a great time to shoot the bull while experiencing great times with friends and family.. It is really fun watchin the dogs work.. I dont rabbit hunt much but i like to go when i can

my g/fs dad runs rabbits and he lives for it he says I am more of a deer hunter my self and the only hunting I have done for rabbit is just walking the bush trying to flush it from I brush pile or somthing

Rabbit hunting is the most fun i have after deer season.

I love rabbit hunting. It's best when you have about 5 or so Beagles. You can hear their different barks. One might be long in the mouth, and another might have a chop bark, a little less desirable. We don't do any jump shooting, we like to let the dogs run. We went to .22 rifles years ago. My cousin uses an Anshutz with a scope, and gets them sittin. The rabbit population has fallen off recently, and we've been squirrel hunting more. I never squirrel hunted over a dog until a couple of years ago, and it's the best way to hunt squirrel, if you can get a decent dog. Bird doggin? It ain't hard. You don't really train a pointing dog, you're really working with their instincts. After all, with years and years of breeding, to refine instincts, it should come out. You just work on getting them to hold staunch, and retrieve if you can get them to retrieve. I have hunted everything with dogs and without, and it's better with dogs. If I were you I wouldn't hesitate on getting a bird dog. Find out what you like and go for it. I almost got into flushing dogs, and ended up with Setters. I am real glad I ended up with Setters. I have owned Labs and like them a lot. I just like hunting birds with pointinng dogs. Then when you go rabbit hunting it's different, as different as deer hunting. So, the more you do different kinds of hunting, the better it is. A lot of variety within one activity. Duck and Goose, well, that got to be too much work for me. I don't call well either.

I hunted rabbits more when I was a younger girl then I do now...I do like to upland hunt too...I raise English Pointers...I'm training a 7 month old female now...she is bird crazy.

Hope you are able someday to get out and enjoy a hunt of upland game...I love it when a cock pheasant gets up...and oh the sound of a covey of quail on raise...scare the tar right out of ya...

i love to hunt over rabbit dogs .just listening to them work and being with buddys and family it is great.before i moved west i had a really good dog perfect speed hardly ever lost the track.my buddy had 2 dogs they were a little faster but lost track more often so when we used both mine and his it was a perfect team.i sure miss the hunting and the time spent in the field with friends.ended up giveing my dog to another hunter .he still brags about haveing one of the best dogs in the county.only thing is she was mine .i sure miss her.good luck all thanks for listening. zac

I enjoy rabbit hunting nothing beats a nice morning hunt w/ some beagles in a thicket.. hearing them dogs run them is so fun... our sportsmans club just put in a rabbit pen took the dachaunds out there to see what they can do just for kicks and the one ran into the hole and 6 come out and it went on chasing them... i guess that is what they were breed to do lol...

It is pretty fun to get some rabbits. My friend went out the other day and got his limit.

SHHHHHHHHHHHH we are hunting wabbit that wrascly wabbit anyway hahaha Couldnt resist hehehehe
Steve sr.

I been rabbit hunting for 30 years always have a good dog in the house and still do, in fact the kids are on christmas vacation for a week and we plan to go put the hurtin on them lil cottontails woo hoo i cant wait.
P.S.____ BBQ wabbit is to die for DROOOOOOOOL!

Amen to that!!!

rabbit is a bunch of fun..especially watchin the dogs work them. i havent had much time to go out lately because its hard getin a dog to get them because i dont have one. hopefully that will change soon

What Rabbits?
We used to have a ton of Wabbits when I was a youth. now days its hard to find them where I live.
You can't just hunt everywhere like you used to. all the land has been bought up by outfitters and there is no trespassing in most places
I now own my own land and hope to get them started back. The State of Illinois has a nice wildlife management program and they will come look your land over draw up a management plan to what you want to do, give free tree's and bushes and educate you on what and how to do it.
I started raising my own rabbits because the wild rabbit population has dropped.
I love eating wild rabbit. I would also have dogs if i had a place to run them.

I hadn't been rabbit hunting for a few years since i lost me Beagle. Just found the right pup for me and got her for Christmas. Not quite old enough to run her yet but already training her to scent them out.

We have a ton of rabbits around me so it will be fun next season.

ive never rabbit hunted with dogs before.
must be pretty fun huh.

rabbit are fun to hunt, and they taste great! i have a few pelts hanging on my wall. My .410 works fantastic for them!

yep huntin rabbit is pretty fun

I love rabbit hunting!!! I went with my husband and his cousin last year and I had a blast!!! here is a picture:

http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg234/d...ll/IMG_1243.jpg


I was lucky and got a few, can't wait to do it again...I'm always bugging my husband to go hunting again with his cousin, it was so much fun!!!!