rabbits?

Me.

Yes and yes. Now that the kids are older they now know why the chicken had four drumsticks!

Carry them out, let the beagle play with it for a tiny bit. Drive to where my dad works, takes his knife and then dresses them. I got 3 total in the 3 years i have hunted them.

NH_Hunter

Not since my highschool days have I hunted snowshoe hare, and that's 35years+. Where I live hare are scarce since the early 70's. Some say it is because of the influx of coyotes here in coastal Maine. Hare abundance is spotty. Some places are thick with them, but only in small areas. Located an old friend down east who has beagles and runs hare there. I am going to tie in with him for some weekend hunts.

Cleaning ASAP solves a lot of off flavor problems. I hang mine by one leg, strip off the skin then gut and de-head. It is cool here,so I use to let them hang from a tree limb until I was ready to head home.  

I use to get home from school, change my clothes, grab my single 16, call the dog, and head for the woods. Never had any trouble starting one and we generally had snowshoe meat in the fridgidair. I generally cooked them in my family. I would section 2-3, brown them in butter, cover with water, salt pepper and let simmer until the meat was almost falling off the bone. Then I would throw in a handfull of rice and let it plump up. Used Bisquick to make dumplings. The rice thickened the water. Large fluffy dumplings slathered with butter, Boiled peas on the side. It's been years since I've had that and I can taste the flavor of the meat as  type this.

samchap 

Hold 'em up by the chest with your strong hand, and squeeze. The skin on the abdomen splits and all the inards pop out, slick as can be. Give them a couple of shakes, and then you can toss it into your bag to skin later. Oh, yeah, aim the body away from you, as the bladder will empty if it is full when you squeeze. My good friend who taught me this method forgot to tell me that little tip.

I love to hunt those wascally wabbits!!!!I just got a 28 ga. pump just for bunnys,,love eating cottontails,,,hunting jacks.I slit the belly up to the sturnum,,face it away from me,,and holding the feet,,snap it away from me,everything flys out and I hang 'em head up to drain out,,usually over my shoulder,down my coat,,,I have been stopped by the hiway patrol to see what was up,me carryin' a gun,,covered in blood!!!!!!!!!!!!,,then schnitzle 'em and serve with German (read hot ) potatoe salad and a litre of medium home brew!!!!!!!!!!!!!!YUMMMY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HEY BEAR!,,,,,YES ,,,,,A LITRE IS A GOOD SIZE,,,THE ONLY CROCKERY OR STEINWARE I HAVE LEFT IS FROM THE Schweinfurtbrauhaus,, and at present I use my only remaining 1 litre dimple mug from the Munchen Octoberfest.When I say "medium " homebrew,,it is like a dark Beck's or St Pauli Girl or Lowenbrau,,,right now it is cooling off enough to make some alt lager.

Yeah bear,,the steins don't last for one reason or another,,,either broken,,stolen,,,or????????????,,they were still give aways by the brewery's for years,,I got all mine from the various tours of brauhaus's.My dimple mug is from the Hofbrau,,I think,,,,,,,,that whole week is a pleasant blur,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,tho I do recall I loved a girl once at Octoberfest,,,,,,,,,,,no,,,twice!!,,,even Schlitz tastes good from that mug!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Rabbits are my number 1 game. The little Erma .22 lever action is the weopon of choice and a day rabbit huntin' just can't be beat.

The little buggers taste good too!

Russ

  We hunt rabits with a vengenes. Any gun any where anty time!Most of the time we use 22's but as often as not we end up using our big guns,4570,7mm mag,3006,243,308 norma mag,12gagg slug,ext.There's not much to eat that way,when we do have some left we just skin the back,and take just the backstrap.If you hit them hard enough you can nock off most of the FLEES and TICKS!!!