huntercameron
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i was wondering how many rabbits have you killed ?Me personally killed one cottontail and one jack rabbit both with a .22 . my rabbit count is 2 . whats your rabbit count ?
what kind of 22 did you use ?That wonderful day in June 1990 was 47 rabbits. It only took about 1200 rounds of 22 shells (about $19 dollars worth).
Yep, it was a wonderful day. Usually I only shoot 7-10 rabbits per 500 rounds
hey eelgrass is a brush rabbit like a cottontail ?Just a guess but I would say around 20-30, all "brush rabbits". They can be quite challenging. They are very skittish and only come out early morning or late evening, or rainy days sometimes. Good practice for big game hunting.
The brush rabbit (Sylvilagus bachmani), or western brush rabbit, or Californian brush rabbit, is a species of cottontail rabbit found in western coastal regions of North America, from the Columbia River in Oregon to the southern tip of the Baja California Peninsula.hey eelgrass is a brush rabbit like a cottontail ?
It's crazy hard to explain it to someone. Me & another guy would go archery hunting antelope & we'd each take a brick of 22 shells. We had two Ruger pistols & two Ruger 10 22's. We'd sit on the edge of the fields that butted up against sage brush at dusk. It was a solid stream of rabbits coming out of the brush! One guy would load the guns twice while the other shot. You could shoot nonstop without even moving locations. The rabbits keep the alfalfa ate to the ground about a hundred yards in for about a two mile length. ???????????????Yes, Mud Lake in the 80's. Me and two friends shot over 1000 rabbits in one day and a night on my brother-in-laws farm. When we finally froze out and went home at about 5:00 in the morning, it was 17 below. I took 4000 rounds of 22's with me and only brought back a hand full. The other two guys only brought a couple of 500 round bricks and ended up using a lot of mine.
My dad use to tell stories of doing that as a kid. Right up until he died, he was a crack shot. Always standing, off hand with open sights.As a kid in the 70/80s, we would go out to the Wyoming willow bottoms in January. The rule was only to shoot Jacks on the run using our big game hunting rifles. It is where I learned to shoot offhand at a running target.
sick !My dad use to tell stories of doing that as a kid. Right up until he died, he was a crack shot. Always standing, off hand with open sights.
Got one on a motorcycle once. Fortunately no road rash, but that’s pretty scary.Gun or vehicle?
There used to be lots of rabbits before 22’s had scopesWe used to buy .22 bullets by the brick. In the 80’s a buddy and I would hunt jacks and cottontails after school and on weekends. We had another buddy who grew up dirt poor and we would take him along at times, we would pick up the rabbits and he would take them home where his family ate the cottontails and fed the jacks to their dogs. We literally killed thousands of them back then, something I’m not proud of now. Same with birds and BB guns when I was a youngster.
And rangefinders! ?There used to be lots of rabbits before 22’s had scopes
We shot prairie dogs with our hunting rifles. 100 times more dogs here nowadays than rabbits, used to be the opposite.I believe like a few on here already said that Rabbit hunting is the best rifle training you can get. My dad was big on that idea. When the rabbits were plenty, a few months of off and on hunting them with the big game rifle, you begin to have the feel for the rifle and accuracy that’s hard to explain. It’s almost like a part of you.
We shot prairie dogs with our hunting rifles. 100 times more dogs here nowadays than rabbits, used to be the opposite.
Our rabbits are just about gone along with our pheasants and quail. We’ve still got prairie dog towns out on the farms and even some vacant lots in town have many dogs. We inadvertently run over these critters like we used to run over rabbits when I was growing up.Prairie dogs were our thing too. We did so much we would even take our cleaning equipment with us and go through well over a hundred rounds per person. Come home and reload and go back out in a few days and do it all over again. Prairie dog shooting was the best, too bad they’re gone for the most part. I could go on for hours about it. It definitely helped us with our on the fly range estimates, shooter/spotter communications, and accuracy. We were usually stationary with our truck, sandbags and gear so it only helped in those three areas. Rabbit hunting was on foot and the rifle was carried. That hunting helped with things like scent, wind, reaction and speed. Varying ranges and up+down hill shots too. I am sure it helped me all of those years starting with a single shot Chipmunk with open sights on up to the centerfires I use today.
I did the Kirt Darner sneak this morning and caught this guy out feeding. Brush Rabbit.hey eelgrass is a brush rabbit like a cottontail ?
how is fried rabbit ? does it taste like chicken ?Yes I miss the cottontail hunting with my uncles and dad. Wait for a good snow and then a clear day and cold and they would be sitting by their holes and you shot em in the head with a .22 so as to not waste the meat.
Love fried cottontail just can't find them anymore. Where I used to go in Nevada they are all gone. Not sure where to look anymore
Very similar, especially fall rabbits. Winter bunnies can be tougher and the flavors will be stronger which not everybody likes.how is fried rabbit ? does it taste like chicken ?
The best young rabbit is the best those brush bunnies Eel talked about are very good table fare. I bone it out and cook it like finger steaks my family loves it. Just wish I could find some for this fallhow is fried rabbit ? does it taste like chicken ?
In my misspent high school days we used to drive from Fort Collins to Steamboat to ski. At Muddy Pass just before Rabbit Ears Pass we used to run into ‘herds’ of snowshoe hares on US 40. The roadside snow walls were vertical from rotary snowplows so the hares could not get off the road easily. Sometimes we would turn around and drive through the ‘herd’ several times. A Volkswagen beetle doesn’t have a lot of clearence and you could feel them rolling under the unibody undercarriage.
You should have your ass kicked for that. Prick.We killed so many we'd also get feeling guilty so we started ear marking them. Some of those jacks had ears that looked like Swiss cheese after a couple of weekends.
I think the winter of 82 was the big year when the Mud Lake media attention went national and international. A friend worked at the INEL, and one night on the way to work for night shift, he sat up front by the bus driver and counted the rabbits the bus hit. Well over 300 in about 55 miles.Yes, Mud Lake in the 80's. Me and two friends shot over 1000 rabbits in one day and a night on my brother-in-laws farm. When we finally froze out and went home at about 5:00 in the morning, it was 17 below. I took 4000 rounds of 22's with me and only brought back a hand full. The other two guys only brought a couple of 500 round bricks and ended up using a lot of mine.
I think the winter of 82 was the big year when the Mud Lake media attention went national and international. A friend worked at the INEL, and one night on the way to work for night shift, he sat up front by the bus driver and counted the rabbits the bus hit. Well over 300 in about 55 miles.
The best young rabbit is the best those brush bunnies Eel talked about are very good table fare. I bone it out and cook it like finger steaks my family loves it. Just wish I could find some for this fall
I hunted Jackrabbits at night with Spotlights in Central Texas with friends from the bed of pickups- using shotguns or .22 auto rifles- we hunted old fields abandoned from farming on ranches /farms. We shot some times over 50 a night- they were everywhere! It was a blast ? of fun for HS Kids. That was in the early ‘60’s.i was wondering how many rabbits have you killed ?Me personally killed one cottontail and one jack rabbit both with a .22 . my rabbit count is 2 . whats your rabbit count ?