Do Rabbits dig holes?

[/pine]

Riding on a front fender of a 1946 Chevrolet through pastures at night with a .12 gauge shotgun worked pretty well, and it was even better a few years later when a buddy and I both had convertibles; one would drive while the other stood up to shoot over the windshield. When I was growing up, we ate every rabbit we could find.

A buddy of mine once had a 30' Hatteras sport fisherman...we used to shoot flying fish from the flying bridge (when cruising they would come out of the water ahead of the vessel)...mostly used a 410 to keep it interesting...it was a riot...!

Interesting info on rabbits...

 

[phiferpharm]

Thanks guys, I'm buying the Armadillos as the most likely - I've seen them all around here and as road kill. Never seen any skunks, so I hope that's not what it is. My guess on the rabbits were the dozen of them on my driveway/lawn when I came in last night.


As for Turtles, well, no comment........really no comment

 

[/pine]

I've seen them all around here and as road kill.

Armadillos...when they are dead on the side of the road...we call them "possum on the half shell"...!

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I've seen baby rabbits in a nest in a hole like that.

 

[EddieWalker]

Best time to kill armadillos is the middle of the night. I've only see a few in over a decade out before it was dark out, but when I'm on my tractor mowing late at night, I see them all the time. Easy targets from the tractor with a pistol!!! I know some little old ladies who pull out the shotgun to kill them after they have tore up their gardens!!!

Eddie

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Riding on a front fender of a 1946 Chevrolet through pastures at night with a .12 gauge shotgun worked pretty well, and it was even better a few years later when a buddy and I both had convertibles; one would drive while the other stood up to shoot over the windshield. When I was growing up, we ate every rabbit we could find.

Sounds like you and I went to different schools together. I...as my Father would say...killed a "wagon load" of rabbits with my little single shot .22, at night, from the passenger side window of my Dad's 1949 Packard. Now we wouldn't eat a jack rabbit though, unless it was a young one. We also put away a lot of squirrels, quail, ducks and channel cats.

 

[Bird]

I got a Remington bolt action single shot .22 when I was 10 years old, and a double barreled 12 gauge the next year, but never used the .22 at night. I did prefer shooting squirrels & rabbits with the .22 instead of the shotgun because it was less lead to clean out. I shot quite a few squirrels and rabbits, but only two ducks in my life; one with the 12 gauge and one with a 410. My Dad liked quail hunting, but I've only shot one quail and one dove; not enough meat to be worth the shotgun shell. But we did eat every jackrabbit we got, too. Young ones were good fried; the old ones got cooked in the pressure cooker, boned, and the meat ground up. The ground meat was good in gravy on biscuits or for sandwiches made the same as chicken salad.

My paternal grandmother said she'd never eat another jackrabbit or any other rabbit because when they were married they didn't have much and my grandfather shot lots of jackrabbits and she made them into canned sausage. So she said she had enough jackrabbit sausage their first year or two that she'd never eat anymore rabbit.:laughing:

 

[Looking4new]

Jacking rabbits or any other animal at night is very ilegal up here. I'm not saying it isn't done, just very ilegal and jacking them from a vehicle is worse. I catch them in my headlights and stop, they stop too and I go around on the outside of the headlight beam and grab them by the ears and off them. That is legal, more or less. No firearms firing at night, no firearms in the vehicle, period.

 

[McREBEL]

It looks like the detective work has been done, but I will add, that hole looks very much like the ones the armadillos make in my yard. I guess the dog just watches them work. Nighttime, a little patience and a 12 guage will eventually make them stop.

 

[Bird]

Jacking rabbits or any other animal at night is very ilegal up here. I'm not saying it isn't done, just very ilegal and jacking them from a vehicle is worse. I catch them in my headlights and stop, they stop too and I go around on the outside of the headlight beam and grab them by the ears and off them. That is legal, more or less. No firearms firing at night, no firearms in the vehicle, period.

It's been so long since I did any hunting at all that I have no idea what the current laws are, but in the past, when I hunted, it was illegal to discharge a firearm on, along, or across any public road, but there were no restrictions, no season, etc. on rabbits, so shooting them at night and/or from a vehicle on private property was not illegal.