CANE CUTTER!!!!!

[Bustin' Ducks]

got biscuits and gravy??

[Super Black Eagle]

If you reread your post carefully, you will see why we don't have them anymore.

do you think you were the only one shootin' 40 or 50 rabbits a day?

[Don Miller]

All this new water in the delta ought to concentrate them rabbits a little more. We tend to do better on high water years.

[Ducks be us]

The wifes dad is a corn farmer in Iowa. When he would combine the north 40, he would give me a shout. One guy on one end, the other guy on the other end...every pass we'd shoot 2 or 3. Pheasants were thick too. Anyway, wed shoot maybe 30 then throw em in the freezer, would last us all summer...Rabbits and dumplins....ummm ummm good. Yall have a nice day! ps. good supply of rabbits living in the corn fields of Iowa.

[Super Black Eagle]

has the quail population fallen because of this chemical warfare also?

[skuna]

The fox hunters bringing coyotes in probably didn't help the rabbit population any. And probably other reasons such as DDT and changes in land managment and farming practices. Alot of the same reasons quail numbers are not what they use to be.

[marionfd708]

my dad used to work on a farm and for years we would walk beside the combines and kill the piss out of rabbits. over the years there were less and less out there but, we also noticed there were more and more hawks that would sit at the edge of the field watching and waiting on bugs to go running. it was like they would hear the john deere crank and here they came. we also see more coyotes now than ever before. until we conduct an eradication hunt on them the rabbits will not make a comeback.
just my .02
kev.

[crow]

One word can explain why we don't have the rabbits or quail we used to...coyotes! They have danged near exterminated the quail here in GA!

[12GA]

On the one mile gravel road leading to my duck lease, we counted 42 rabbits crossing the road from WRP land to WRP land. Thus, at least in that small section of Sharkey County, there's no shortage of rabbits.

I suspect that rabbits are subject to the same environmental and natural pressures as other critters. For example, hawks are protected and there seems to be a lot of them these days. Drive through the Delta and look at how many you see cruising over WRP ground. Also, the seasonal flooding in the Delta undoubtedly kills of thousands of rabbits.

They are fine eating if you've never had one and hard as heck to hit with a shotgun.

[Ducks be us]

I know when I was a kid, we killed coyotes on sight. The rancher man wanted us to shoot any birds of prey on sight also. No eagles just chicken hawks and owls, we did as he asked. We would also take him a newspaper and a head of lettuce....in turn, he let us hunt and would give us a bag of jackrabbit jerky. Those were the days! Any way...whats the rules for for killin a coyote or, are there any? Yall have a good day!

[gadwall2]

Boy, I like a big ole cane cutter also, but huntin hillbillies are more fun to me. They are smaller and quicker. I have stood on top of brush piles and watched em jump over dogs, swim across ponds, and even run between a fellow hunters legs as he was trying to draw a bead on it. Rabbit hunting with a pack of beagles is so much fun its almost comical.

Fire ants and snakes are hurting the quail. Fox, coyotes, and bobcats are hammerin the rabbits pretty good.

Marionfd76935520465, I also remember when it came time to cut beans and would always take my 20 gauage single popper when dad would fire up the combine. Ain't nothin like walkin next to a combine while coughing your head off waitin on a bunny to shoot out.

[Po Monkey Lounger]

A wabbit hunting we will go. Which way did he go?

Still seeing plenty of rabbits in WRP and conservation easement fields in the Delta. Big cane cutters. Look for the circling hawks. Lots of fun hunting these critters. Good to eat as well. Much more action than a wild quail hunt, which is really now pretty much just a nostalgic hike with pointers.

[RDB]

I remember all the same stories you all are telling. The last good rabbit hunt I was on was near Kilmicheal about twenty five years ago. We hunted a property up there where the rabbits were thick as flies. You could literally jump one in every thick spot. But now it's just like everybody describes, little of nothing.

Benny I hear tell of an small island on the river near Port Gibson that is supposed to be full of them cane cutters. Spoke with a fellow two years ago who said they used to go in there and drop a pack of dogs out and kill quite a few. Seems logical that there would be a quantity on this island, no predators and stays dry during high water. I know for fact there are deer on it, jumped a few duck hunting next to it this year.

[your-pal-al]

i have heard at least here in the piedmont of the carolinas the main culprit of the rabbit demize is fescue. seems that the fescue poisons the mothers milk.

al

[Double R 2]

They got to have cover! Show me a patch of briars and buckvines and I'll show you rabbits thick as fleas! Our group only shot about 3 dozen last weekend but that was because the cover was too thick to see them buggers. Last year our group shot 60+ and 2 years ago we shot 80+. Three hunts in three counties in three years and these shoots were well within limits. Maybe not as much cover throughout the delta as the golden age you refer to, but where there's cover there's likely a bunch of cottontails and swampers.