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Well guys tommorrow is the day, ticks me off, but the darn snow has crushed my Feb, which is usually my go get em time for rabbits.  Only got one this season     , and last season I got 7   :eek:  , o well.  Tommorrow is the end of squirrels and rabbit season.  And on the 6th is the end of goose, and then nothing untill the middle of april, 3d dont start untill last week in March, groundhogs dont come out untill it warms up   :mad:  , o geeze, just venting.  Anyone else bummed?

I can feel your pain, Chris, altho you guys have had far more snow that most of us this year.  I just returned from a week of Texas Pig Giggin', so I'm not feeling too bad.

Feel lucky that you still have a decent rabbit population.  My folks have a 350 acre farm, and finding a rabbit is good as gold.  We don't dare shoot them, in hopes the population will grow like it used to be in the past.

oo I need to start thinking spring turkey, and mabye tie some fly's or something so I dont go crazy, lol

In MN its open till Feb. 28! Two more days, but i had fun roving with a 68" 50# @28 selfbow i made last summer! It was my first bow and i love small game hunting and i had a good season! I ended up with 13 rabbits and 6 grouse, and many lost and damaged arrows! Tried a dozen Sitka Spruce arrows, fletched em fluflu style and tipped with judos! Ive had bbq'd rabbit, rabbit stew, creamed rabbit over toast, as well as roasted grouse, and a special grouse soup:) So you could say im bummed a bit, but i got tuned in with the new bow and may use it for deer!

hmm, I feel stupid now, I didnt even look, but ours is open till sunday too but we are not allowed to hunt them on sundays???  WTF is up with that???

i think i killed my target...im due for a new one anyway.trout season will bring some relief.

Read you loud and clear. Had plans to take the little guy out for rabbits the week of the big snow(s). They even extended rabbit season this year to the end of Feb.

If I'm not mistaken, you can shoot snow geese until April 6 or so, with the fed extension.

Crows? Coyotes? Varmints? NOTHING?!?    :scared:

Chris, I like you waited until Feb to target rabbits and was buried with snow this Feb.  The groundhogs will start to stir in the spring but in the meantime I've been greasing fishing reels, changing line, and doing two painting projects on the honey do list.

Going to a fishing flea market tomorrow so some fun in the offing.

If you get real bored give me a PM some nice day and come over and shoot my little 3-D course.

This year that rabbits were tough for me. I hunt rabbits more in febuary that any other mounth but like you it snowed alot. I think we are about 150% of normal and more tomorrow. I did get some great skiing in but that just makes my girls happy. Even my secret bunny spot only had a few there when normaly has hundreds. Between all the gun hunters and a large poputlation of birds of pray they were thined quick this year.

Darn, come on down to San Antonio, I know there is a warm up 3d shoot at Canyon Lake just north of here on the 6th of March.

You guys have had your share of white stuff.

Mike  :bigsmyl:

the rabbits are still there.  I few good beagles & you will see them.  Mike

Chris, at least you can pull your bow. My shoulder is still healing, but getting stronger. Hopefully I can start pulling in a couple weeks. I missed all of Jan. and Feb.

Well too many, better than missing September and October  :readit: , no really I feel you.  Hopefully you can get at it strong.

Reddodge, I didnt really wait, just usually Febuary they seem to be everywhere???  But I did get one on the second day WAY back in November, and that was it. . . I am kinda far right now to shoot with ya, but in the near future I am gona transfer to Towson!!!

Big Mike, I dont think they are there, they are under the snow!  There are no tracks, and no holes, except for the one right out back.  The thickets are still to this day under snow completely.  SUCKS, lol   :biglaugh:    :biglaugh:    :biglaugh:    :biglaugh:

QuoteOriginally posted by Shooty1:
Read you loud and clear. Had plans to take the little guy out for rabbits the week of the big snow(s). They even extended rabbit season this year to the end of Feb.

If I'm not mistaken, you can shoot snow geese until April 6 or so, with the fed extension.

You guys seem to be exactly a year behind our laws???  I heard that your state was pushing for crossbows during the entire bow season, and that was put into effect last year along with the extended rabbit season.

I was pleasantly suprised to realize that our canada goose season was extended untill the 6th of march, we dont really have snows this far west unfortunaly but a heafty pop of resident geese!  Need to get at them!!!

Maybe someone can harp in.There is a state out west that has open season on rabbits year round.Info please.

Red Squirrels--No open season ???  Not the best eat'n ( leave a little hair on em, for best results) BUT they are alot of fun to hunt- they chatter at you, and hide behind a limb, but if you wait them out, they can't stand it, and just have to come out and have a look at you. I find thier antics halarious- laughing just adds to the challenge of putting a good shot on them.  Another bonus, is that unlike arrowing Fox squirrels, the kills are clean--often launching them 10-15ft. out of the tree. Kind of like getting hit by a 100mph telephone pole--Its clean.

no we dont really have true red squirrels.  We have piney squirrels, which are smaller, can ya beleive that!  But there safe the same time the grays are . . .

I believe Arizona's cottontail season is year round. We can hunt jacks year round in Wyo.

Your archery deer season comes in September 15th, and you can hunt small game till the end of February.  Not a bad season if you think about it, and that doesn't include the ability to hunt all year around for other game...coyotes, groundhogs.
Son, you have plenty of hunting to do.    :thumbsup:

Utah jacks are year around.

Chris, We only have a few more weeks of small game season as well.. But its been snowing and blowing so hard I dont dare go out... But the way I look at it what the heck here in due time it will be time to hitt the back waters to do some bowfishing :-)   As well as spring  turkey hunting...

Cody

And here I thought this was an prescient comment on tomorrows inevitable trouncing of the US hockey team by the Great White North!  ;-]

Trouncing?  Maybe.  Inevitable?  Maybe not.    :saywhat:    :goldtooth:

Only time will tell, you guys already beat the women . . .

We have only had 2" of snow this year, it is 60 degrees today. Last year we had 14ft of snow...PR

Chris - if you can hunt woodchucks- then do that.

Kill 12.

Stalk a couple; wait some out- figure out their patterns-- I think the woodchuck is the most difficult animal to kill. Some might get 'stupid' for long enough to shoot- but most are one of the greatest challenges.

The how and when to draw back experience you get works for deer season etc too.

Hunting woodchucks is not time taken off your life!    


right?

WOW!!! Thats a cheapshot if ive ever heard of one!!! Team USA has the "Canucks" figured out, physical play, and then wait for a mistake! Its goin to be just like watching an NHL game, only on bigger ice! I predict a close game like the first, same result! Oh yeah, found 3 rabbits in the freezer that i almost forgot about, any tasty ideas for them that i havent tried yet?

mnbearbaiter- I understand they're mighty fine when cooked and eaten with a bit of crow!

Sorry guys- just too much java this morning on top of already being stoked about the game. Apologies for shifting gears on this thread!

Foxtail-  Seriously?(about the crow?)  

Woodchucks are on the way, just need to wait for the snow to melt.  And then they should be out.  Brian, they are definatly one of the hardest critters to hunt, kinda like pig hunting, except not the best meat.  But they do have a usefull thick hide, if you can get it off.  Sometimes they are just so thick that you cant.  I think it took me two years to get one with my bow.  Other than that I have killed probably about 100 through trapping and 22.  We are thick in them, lol