Rabbit huntin'

bgott · Mar 11, 2003

Re: Rabbit huntin\'

We used to do that in Nevada. You didn't want to get carried away when you were driving because it was your turn on the fender next. It's kind of like the payback when you are hauling hay out of the field on a flat bed truck. It's great fun to goose it over the irrigation checks to see if you can knock someone off but not much fun when you're on the back for the next load. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Anonymous Poster · Mar 11, 2003

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Dan, being a hunter by asociation only (that means only if somone makes me go) there is very little I know about the laws. As for the hunting with dogs, ::shudder::, at the risk of ticking anybody off, I couldn't think of doing that. Lots of the teenage boys out here save their money to buy a truck or jeep first and then dogs and hog/dog pens for the back of the truck.

There are pit bull/cur shows out here twice a month to show off the dogs and their skills with prizes and awards. These dogs don't just corner the wild hog, like a coon dog would a coon, they take the hog down. You may know all this already. Pigs get maimed, kids get maimed, dogs get maimed. It's a pretty brutal sport. Not that I beleive that hunting is wrong, I just see a quick bullet as being a lot more humane.

The end result is always a bar b que with the 'catcher' being the man of honor and the catch dogs getting a goodly share of the meat. These wild pigs roam pretty far and wide out here and the boys get permission from fathers, uncles, freinds etc, to hunt their groves, so it's always private property.

My daughter's boyfreind has a pretty solid reputation as being one of the best. Last year he and a freind caught two gilts about ninety pounds and snuck in early and turned them loose in the admin office of the high school. When the all-call came for someone to COME AND GET THESE HOGS OUT OF THE OFFICE PRONTO, they were first ones there as you can bet. Why? To miss the morning of school with an excused absense.

Bird · Mar 11, 2003

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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( These dogs don't just corner the wild hog, like a coon dog would a coon )</font>

Uuhh, I don't know about coon huntin' in your area (or for that matter what happens in this part of the country anymore), but when I was a kid, Dad's best friend raised, trained, and sold coon hounds, so I've been on a few hunts. And when the dogs treed a coon, the "sport" was for someone to climb the tree (yep, I've been up there) to jump the coon out the tree and watch the fight until the dogs killed the coon.

Cock fighting was also a popular "sport" when I was a kid, so I've been there, too.

I guess my idea of "sport" is different from a lot of folks. I have no use for those kind of sports. Heck, if I see a bullfight, I root for the bull instead of the matador.

Anonymous Poster · Mar 11, 2003

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The only experience I have with coon hunting is the stories related to me by my husband from when he was a child in Texas. The coon dogs tree'd the coon and then the coon was shot. At least in his case, it was a solitary sport, save for the coon dogs.

I agree with you on cock fighting, dog fighting, heck, even boxing for that matter. Violence for the sake of violence has never appealed to me. At least in boxing the contenders have a choice as to whether or not they choose to participate.

Wingnut · Mar 11, 2003

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reminds me of working on a dairy farm for the summer when I was a teenager ... they had a cutting horse that everyone rode bareback ... I'd ridden as often as possible, but always riding stable horses (mostly trail horses), but never bareback. No one told me that cutting horses are trained to respond to leg pressure ... so you can guess what happened. The faster she went, the tighter I gripped, faster, tighter, faster, tighter, barb wire fence, she stops on a dime and gives my 9 cents change .... I go flying over her head and land on the other side of the barb wire. I was lucky too ... some bruises - mostly my pride.
I'd forgotten all about that until I read your story ... thanks for the smile!

pete

Anonymous Poster · Mar 11, 2003

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Whew.....you got lucky. I love the 'nine cents change'....that's a pearl. So far we haven't had any barbed wire incidents. Unless you count me hooking myself occasionally 'cheating' through a fence instead of going to the gate. Now, the electric fence that's another story. Just got the thing hooked up a few weeks ago and there is not a soul on the place that hasn't had a taste of it.

I managed to dodge it for better than a week, and then got distracted trying to catch a little gilt. Got ahold of her leg and started backing up to get a better grip and put my bare leg against it. In case you didn't know, it's wise not to wear a dress while attempting to catch pigs. Something tells me you probably knew that.

Up to that point I was grunting and swearing, and the pig was grunting and squealing and that little jolt came along and for about ten seconds you could have heard a pin drop. Then the grunting and swearing and squealing started up again with a vengeance.