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Rabbit Hunting
As a young man growing up in North Carolina in the mid 1950s, Bill Bethune liked quail hunting, but the birds always flew up in flurry, were fast on the getaway and were hard to hit with a load of birdshot. Then one day his family dog flushed a cottontail and the rabbit bounded away,…
Thanks to a surge of cold air that blew through the state on Wednesday, Feb. 26, rabbit hunters will gladly take a pair of comfortable days to finish out rabbit season, which will close at dark on Friday, Feb. 28. GON Forum member “J Mitchell” pretty much sums up the feelings of all rabbit hunters…
It’s amazing how seemingly minor events can evolve into memorable experiences. Such was the case when I joined Ronnie Kirk and his 88-year-old dad, Hoby, for a morning rabbit hunt on Dec. 11, 2013. Ronnie and I have been fishing friends for many years, and Ronnie had often talked about his dad’s beagles and his…
“Is this Dana Carter?” I asked. When he confirmed his identity, I informed him that he had just won a guided rabbit hunt. You could hear the excitement on the other end as he asked the where and when of the hunt. Dana’s name was drawn from among a number of people who purchased raffle…
Rabbit season starts Saturday, Nov. 17. Do you have a place to turn out beagles and hunt? There’s a common gripe in the rabbit-hunting community that revolves around the difficulty in having a place to run dogs during deer season. Yes, it’s very true that access to private tracts full of briars and bunnies is…
I spend just about every Saturday in December, January and February with good friends. We meet at daylight, finish coffee and biscuits, cut-up for a minute or two and then get down to serious business: rabbit hunting. I’m blessed to hunt with Aubrey Holcombe, aka Daddy Rabbit. We’re both very lucky to have access to…
Georgia hunters are blessed to have a long deer season. There aren’t many states with four months on the calendar where one can chase bucks across the state’s widely varied landscape. Another thing we are blessed with in Georgia is an abundance of small-game hunting opportunities. And if you don’t believe folks are doing it,…
We were 45 minutes into a steady, hot rabbit run. Thanks to a pack of well-trained beagles, this particular swamp rabbit was having a tough time trying to end the race. Scott Hulsey from Maysville, long-time swamp-rabbit hunter, had three males on the ground, and I had two females in there with them. Standing still…
Mike Thomas of Social Circle sold me a pair of sister beagles a few years ago. Oh boy, I was in the rabbit-hunting business. So we built an off-the-ground pen with pressure-treated wood and chain-link fence, with a 55-gallon barrel in the back for sleeping quarters. Life was going to be great. On the first…
There’s nothing I love more than the sweet music a pack of beagles make as they hammer down on the trail of a cottontail. For those of you who have been, you know exactly what I’m talking about. And those of you who haven’t, find somebody with some beagles and try it at least once.…
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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…