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how should I hunt rabbits without dogs
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In Ohio you send your buddy into the brush to kick them out. Next brush pile it's your turn.
Most of my life was spent hunting without a dog. The few times I did it was a pleasure. You just need to walk alot more, crisscross the field, and as buckhunter said, if you have a buddy take turns in the thickets.
My favorite is tracking them after a fresh snowfall.
I stalk them with a .22 rimfire, great practise for sneaking up on deer
We do it the way Buckhunter does, just keep track of your buddy. He probably won't taste good.
I don't recommend it after trying both methods. Dogs make it so much easier to hunt rabbits. Like buckhunter says, sending a buddy into the brush is pretty much your only shot at it. It is very difficult to even see one when alone there.
Slow stalking along grain field edges in early morning and late evening are effective ways to take feeding cotton tails. Use cover to your advantge and look way ahead with your binocs.
Once can be successful slowly stalking through brushy areas with a move and stop routine. Stomping limbs, and small tagles of vines and brush along the way. Move slowly at all times and you will unnerve many cotton tails that will typically circle and come back to thier bed. Be patient.
Bedding is also effective. Move slowly through brushy areas and around brush piles looking in, through and under them. Look for that Black Marble of an eye, then shoot him in it. My Dad was a master at this using a .22 Buffalo Scout pistol and .22 shorts.
Wear Blaze orange if you have a buddy with you!!
I've walked up on rabbits and flushed em myself it does help to have someone else out their with you and you can both come out with some rabbit
Look in thickets junk piles and dumps. Get a semi auto and have fun. But be careful.
walk through the woods and flush them up
I agree with jordjohn44 it is much easier with dogs, but if you have to you need to walk around and flush them out.
durring the spring, summer and even early fall like now, make brush piles on field edges, trails, any where and then the rabbits will use those as their house. jump on the top of the pile and be ready for an explosion, they get bookn!
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In Ohio you send your buddy into the brush to kick them out. Next brush pile it's your turn.
Most of my life was spent hunting without a dog. The few times I did it was a pleasure. You just need to walk alot more, crisscross the field, and as buckhunter said, if you have a buddy take turns in the thickets.
My favorite is tracking them after a fresh snowfall.
I stalk them with a .22 rimfire, great practise for sneaking up on deer
We do it the way Buckhunter does, just keep track of your buddy. He probably won't taste good.
I don't recommend it after trying both methods. Dogs make it so much easier to hunt rabbits. Like buckhunter says, sending a buddy into the brush is pretty much your only shot at it. It is very difficult to even see one when alone there.
Slow stalking along grain field edges in early morning and late evening are effective ways to take feeding cotton tails. Use cover to your advantge and look way ahead with your binocs.
Once can be successful slowly stalking through brushy areas with a move and stop routine. Stomping limbs, and small tagles of vines and brush along the way. Move slowly at all times and you will unnerve many cotton tails that will typically circle and come back to thier bed. Be patient.
Bedding is also effective. Move slowly through brushy areas and around brush piles looking in, through and under them. Look for that Black Marble of an eye, then shoot him in it. My Dad was a master at this using a .22 Buffalo Scout pistol and .22 shorts.
Wear Blaze orange if you have a buddy with you!!
I've walked up on rabbits and flushed em myself it does help to have someone else out their with you and you can both come out with some rabbit
walk through the woods and flush them up
I agree with jordjohn44 it is much easier with dogs, but if you have to you need to walk around and flush them out.
durring the spring, summer and even early fall like now, make brush piles on field edges, trails, any where and then the rabbits will use those as their house. jump on the top of the pile and be ready for an explosion, they get bookn!
Look in thickets junk piles and dumps. Get a semi auto and have fun. But be careful.
Post an Answer