Seems as the 'yote poputlation increases, rabbit sighting go down. At my deer camp, it's all hands on deck, snares, traps, etc. to work on 'yotes.

When I was a kid in the late '50's, a good bud had a bunch of good beagles, would come out from town to hunt swampers on our farm. I really liked that. I started using a 12 ga M-12, then a Win 37 .410, then a T/C Contender .410 pistol. Rabbits are easy to kill.

We'd skin them, put them in bread wrappers, drop them in our game bags. A few big swampers would make a hunting vest pretty heavy. We has a few cottontails, swampers were our game.

Mom would make rabbit gumbo, which was really good on a cold day after a hunt, a nice fire in the fireplace.

I still have my rabbit pistol. Made a walnut grip, didn't like the OEM version.

DF

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