A copie of a tropic I wrote in an other USA huting Forum.

Hello Friends in the USA,

I have been not so often online the last time.
Work is bissy and also the hunting season is starting.
We had a very dry summer and Autumn so the last weeks there was much cattle in the fields and we normaly start the season when the cattle is out of the field.

Last week we had the first hare hunt and I took some pictures of it so you get an impression how we hunt those animals.

by the way I liked to read that some of you have seen that I was not so much on the board.

But here some Pictures I hope you like it.

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The pictures are in a little better quality I hope that gives you no problem to download them.

we shot the Hare with 4 hunter on a place where we hunt once a year. On all places where we hunt we are one time a year ( for hare hunting) For ducks, crows and Foxes we come there more offcouse.

Most of the hare we shoot on grassland like on the first pictures. On the last pictures is also a nice piece of ground but that is not used this year by a farmer. Nextyear it will be very flat and green again. I hope we had more form those wild places because animals like to be there.

A few times a year we also hunt this wild place because we expect a fox in there but until now it was not a succes.


Greetings form Holland

Doublet

Those are big - any good to eat?

Have you tried a varmit call for the foxes? Makes a squealing noise like a wounded rabbit.

There use to be a large amount of rabbits in NH, I have noticed over the years they have diminished greatly due to the growth of coyote populations, rabbit hunting is allot of fun, me and my father use to have a few beagles and boy could they shake up the woods, we would always get at least half dozen rabbits a session, those beagles are the best for rabbit hunting, once they get on a rabbit the circle the rabbit right to the hunter,as soon as the rabbit will cross the hunter the beagle stops and the rabbit continues running bye us for the shot;) I don't know how they can manipulate those rabbits but they do. Nice pictures brings back fond memories 8) Aim small hit small. RAMbo.

I thought we had a lot of rabbits until I saw those pics. Is there a story that goes with that one duck?

I've never seen rabbits that big. Huge! Very nice pictures.

You guys want to see huge rabbits, go to mid to northern maine, they are snowshoe rabbits and get really big and rabbits are every where eating clover. I did a deer hunt in FtKent a few years ago, and I never seen so many rabbits and big, there was only one other place, in Mass down the cape wellfleet, I was on a scottish golf course and there was so many rabbits I could not keep count, well over populated due to lack of hunting and varmints. Aim small hit small. RAMbo.

Guys, those critters are hares. They are born with hair. Rabbits are not. Different species. Similar to our jackrabbits. They grow much larger than our little cottontails. When out prarie dog hunting, we will see these guys, and many will be close to knee high on a man. They also run twice as fast as any cottontail. My father used to get in a jeep with several buddies, go out to the flint hills of Kansas and shoot them by the hundreds. There was a bounty on them during the dry years in the 50's.

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Correct these are hare.

But on this picture you see rabbits and Hare.

On the ground ans some on the table are rabbits

On the table on the left are a few hare. ( brown hare)


Greeting form Holland

Doublet

Are the brown hare in the last photo different to those hanging on the gate? The rabbits and hare on the gate look the same as the ones we've got, which one would expect, because ours came from Europe. Yours are a bit fatter though. The rest of the seenary is nothing like what you would find here though.

Someone has been busy with those rabbits.

Are the brown hare in the last photo different to those hanging on the gate? The rabbits and hare on the gate look the same as the ones we've got, which one would expect, because ours came from Europe. Yours are a bit fatter though. The rest of the seenary is nothing like what you would find here though.

Someone has been busy with those rabbits.

There could be a difference.

The hare on the gate are form Holland and the hares on the last pics we shot in Scotland last year.
Both are brown hare but the food they get in Holland is better than in scotland (dry moor) so i think that be the diffence.

Greeting form Holland

Doublet

Looks like you have plenty of hare and rabbits, but was wondering if you use dogs on these hunts or not?

Doc, thanks for clearing up the difference - I never knew what is was - but let's not split hairs. They are fun to shoot and tasty. A by-product is a fine pelt that can be used, given away or sold.

Guys, those critters are hares. They are born with hair. Rabbits are not. Different species. Similar to our jackrabbits. They grow much larger than our little cottontails. When out prarie dog hunting, we will see these guys, and many will be close to knee high on a man. They also run twice as fast as any cottontail. My father used to get in a jeep with several buddies, go out to the flint hills of Kansas and shoot them by the hundreds. There was a bounty on them during the dry years in the 50's.

Looks like you have plenty of hare and rabbits, but was wondering if you use dogs on these hunts or not?


Sure Alyeska we use dogs.

Witout the dogs it is hard to shoot them because the rabbits are sitting in High grass/moore.
So we line up with 4 hunters and one man with 2 dogs walks between the line form the left to the right and back again.

The rabbits will run away up to the hills into there holes.
Than we have a change to shoot them.
(gauge 12 2 3/4 shells 11/8 oz shot size 6)

Greeting form Holland

Doublet