I know a few guys that still do. I'd have some beagles if I had some places to run them. With deer season ending February 10th that only leaves a few weekends to rabbit hunt now. Most people will not let you rabbit hunt during deer season. IMO it's 10x more fun then deer hunting and kids really have a ball doing it.

A few years ago we had a 5 acre peice a guy would let us push. Bunch of fence rows and thick tree lines. Some swampy bottom and an acre inside a fence he never cut. 5-6 tall thorns. 4 guys would go after a hard freeze that beat down the broars some and we killed 14 in one afternoon. Another year killed 9. Those were some fun hunts, but guy sells land and all.I have is a memory.

Got rid of the last of my dogs after last season. Had some fine ones for last 25 years. All bred and trained by myself. Loved it. Best year we killed over 400. Then each year it got harder and harder to find good land and less time to do it. Now my buddy has the dogs and go with him a couple times after deer season. I have a bird dog that sleeps on the couch with me and it’s a hell of a lot easier taking care of him than 7 beagles. I do miss it though. Especially training puppies. Nothing like hearing a pack of 6 week old puppies open up for the first time chasing a tame rabbit around the yard!

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I used to have a good pack that wouldn't run deer. After I get my house built, i'll probably start back getting me another pack going. We got 236 acres on the coosa river in Lincoln with some big swampers on it.

we got so many rabbits I just sit in shooting houses about 45 minutes before dark and head shot em with subsonic .22. always wind up with 5 or 6. I'd imagine with as many rabbits as we have running dogs on it would probably be really productive.

That sounds like a blast! haha

We are running 16 registered rabbit only beagles all weekend on about 500 acres. About 12 guys. Have a 60 pound whole wild hog that is going on smoker Friday nite for Saturday. I have never hunted rabbits before with a pack of dawgs
Super stoked. We have boocoo cotton tails and canecutters.

YALL GOT ANY TIPS ON WHAT TO EXPECT? Best method ? I will post up some pics of the weekend next week Thanks!.

A lite fast action shotgun is in order. Rabbit's will be anywhere from 20 yards to 200 yards behind the dogs. A lot of that depends on how good they are. If the checks(when they loose the rabbit) are over 30 seconds, look for the rabbit to be further behind the dogs. Most beginners make the mistake of wanting to chase the dogs. Don't! Get where the dogs jumped and wait there, 99% of the time he'll circle back, unless he's been out whore hopping, and then he'll go back to his home range. With all the rain, rubber boots are in order. Your not going to hear the rabbit, keep your head on a swivel. Don't forget to lead the rabbit when you shoot, just like dove hunting. Just because you shoot, and he don't roll, doesn't mean he wont die. I shot all the guts out a swamper one time and he still run 30 yards. Your in for a good time, i'm jealous. 12 guys are a lot. Wear orange. Know where the other guys are. DON'T SHOOT THE MANS DOGS! Most important. Be safe, a rabbit ain't worth shooting someone over. I like high brass #6, more so to get thru thick brush. It doesn't take much to kill a rabbit. BTW, chaps or briar britches along with a jacket with gamebag, or vest is a must. Good luck. I want pictures.

Jealous x2. Nothing better than a good rabbit hunt. If the dogs are any count, you are in for a great time. Everything blumsden said. Most importantly, be mindful the other hunters and watch the dogs. They'll do all the hard work. Just make sure you shoot straight, and fast! Definitely post up pics!

Don’t shoot the dogs!!!!!!

Probably going to be more like 5-8 guys now. Everybody there have hunted 40 plus years together with duck, dove and quail dawgs. Everybody will have orange. Dogs will be safe. A buddy of mine met one of the other guys and are just now putting on a 60 pound whole hog to smoke all night for everybody to devour tomorrow. They said their personal hunt record is 33 rabbits. We have about 500 acres of open fields and bottoms, boocoo about 4 year old clearcut with smz's and bottom land / swamp. There are cottontails and canecutters thick across the property so yeehaw. Thanks for the tips.

Im going to be toting a gun my dad purchased before he past. A 1940 model featherweight ithacha model 37 pump shotgun. Dang its light at 5.5 pounds.

Well, post up some pictures of all those rabbits ya'll killed.

The rabbit hunt was really cool.

But it was awfully hot. Due to work conflicts the guys only brought a pack of 6 dawgs (all female). We ran rabbits for about 4 hours saturday morning. Wow your right about being careful not to shoot dawgs. These were tiny almost minature beagles that could go into the thickest briars. We killed 7 rabbits with some running 3 circles before we got them. We probably ran 10 or more. After we killed a timber rattler and a moccasin around 1130 the dog owner was pretty much done as he had lost one of his dogs to a snake bite earlier in the season. Hence sorry about no photos as I was still learning to hunt when we stopped and we had planned to run the dogs all weekend (thought there would be plenty of time for pics) but it was to much risk for the dogs getting bitten. Were hoping that there is atleast one more cold spell by March 3rd and we will definitely run the beagles again... Done alot of hunting but watching and listening to the beagles run a rabbit is truly one of the coolest hunts I have ever done.

was it adam acker that had the dogs?

We had a pretty decent little hunt on my place Saturday with just 2 dogs. One was 11-12 years old and deaf but he was dang good. They were kinda slow understandably, so the races took a little while but we ended up killing every rabbit they jumped. 3 canecutters and 7 cottontails

The dogs were owned by Albert Groce. I was a liitle confused as they referred to the big rabbits we were shooting as BUCKS. To me we always referred to rabbits as cottontails or swamp bucks / canecutters. Never new till I did some research that canecutters are cottontails. There are over 20 species of cottontails with canecutters being the largest. We were shooting full grown cottontails.. predomiately males in the upland area that all weighed about 3 pounds each. I never knew how much a big "cottontail" looks like a small canecutter. They definitely didnt look like peter cottontail.

I went twice at our place. The people had tiny little beagles. Most of the rabbits we killed we just walked in the bushes ahead of the dogs and a rabbit would be sitting there looking at you so you would shoot it then 5 or so minutes later the dogs would slowly walk up there and smell the rabbit. Only had 1 what I would call race but we killed right at 60 on both hunts. Probably the most boring hunting I have ever done. I bet it would be fun with some bigger faster dogs

Good lord you have better everything hunting on your side of 5. We killed one last year and ran it 2 hrs before killing it. They did miss a few more.