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Rabbit Hunting
The years haven’t been kind to rabbit hunters in Georgia. In the 1960s, there were 117,000 of them and they could knock on most any farmhouse and get permission to hunt with a deal of sharing their harvest. They were good at what they did, too. They harvested about 1.7 million rabbits each season. Then,…
Smack-dab in the middle of more than 5,500 game-rich middle Georgia acres; beagles squalling and roaring fit to blow needles off the pines; a perfectly frosty, sunny morning; perched squarely in the path of the already half-hour race—and leave it to Blaine Burley to come up with a kamikaze attack rabbit! Monday, Jan. 16, was…
By James K. Pressley A well-thought-out and properly planned rabbit hunt is a thing of beauty. It has several major parts, and they must all be taken seriously. If you slack off or miss one of these, the hunt will suffer and your standing in the group will drop. The Group: You need a solid…
Sometimes you just have to flip over the sign on the front door to “closed.” Blaine Burley, owner of Woods-N-Water Hunting and Fishing Adventures, and long-time sponsor of GON’s Youth Big-Buck Contest, knows the importance of good juggling in the whirlwind of life. For more than a decade during the three-day MLK January weekend, Blaine…
It was a beautiful February morning with only a slight chill in the morning air, and the forecast was for only a short-sleeved shirt, if you weren’t planning on stomping through briars, or you were Stan Weaver, of Screven County. I’m not Stan, so I had on sleeves and one leather glove, on my left…
This chilly November morning marks one of my favorite Saturdays of the year. As shooting light nears, there are men, women and children standing around tailgates sipping coffee as they adorn orange caps, hunting vests and briar britches. Beagle hounds whine in the box as nearby cottontails and swampers will soon be forced from…
I’m a husband, dad, GON employee, director of 30-30 Ministries, Sunday School teacher, Fellowship of Christian Athletes Character Coach…. man, life is busier than it’s ever been for me, and I’m not seeing much change from that path in the future. Love where God has me, so don’t take the above as complaining, just stating…
Joby Mattox has been at the rabbit hunting game with his pack of hounds for more than three decades. Along the way, he’s gotten pretty darn good at it. With thousands of hunts under his belt and hundreds of field trial competitions to his credit, it’s safe to say he knows a thing or two…
Know how when you haven’t participated in an endeavor for a lengthy while it can be tough working your way back in? It may seem that the entire set of surrounding circumstances has changed. All looks different. Well, rabbit hunting ain’t necessarily like that! There have been times though, throughout these many years of traipsing…
Across the pine savannah, unseen dogs began howling as they jumped another cottontail. Despite wearing heavy brush pants, I could barely move through thick underbrush punctuated by briars as I tried to reposition myself for a better shot. “Look out. He’s running your way,” yelled one of the other hunters. Tensing up with anticipation and…
Rabbit Recipes
Being the camp chef, I was once asked to cook a few rabbits we took one afternoon. This is what I threw together from stuff at the camphouse. It turned into an all-time camphouse favorite. 1 3-lb. rabbit 2 teaspoons salt 1 tablespoon black pepper 1/4 cup bacon grease 4 tablespoons sugar 1 white onion,…
Oven Baked Rabbit 1 rabbit, quartered 1/4 cup butter 2 cups Italian bread crumbs 1/2 teaspoon ground mustard 1/2 teaspoon ground rosemary 1/2 cup orange juice 1 tablespoon parsley flakes Salt and pepper, to taste Salt and pepper rabbit quarters. Melt butter in baking dish. Mix all ingredients except bread crumbs and orange juice in…
Try this dish if you have a freezer full of rabbits and plenty of folks to feed. This recipe makes 50 quarts, but you can divide it to suit your needs. You’ll need: 30-35 rabbits 10 lbs. of stew beef 6 gallons cream corn 6 gallons tomatoes (stewed, diced or whole as you prefer) two…