So a good friend and fellow Trad ganger Conner Parry said he know's of a place that holds a few cottontails. Being that I have cabin fever so bad right now I can't stand it, we hook up and head to the hills. Now our bunny hunting is in a tad different area than most would think. If you have ever seen the foothills of the Salt Lake/Utah valleys you know our foothills are steep, and not hills at all. In fact they rise staight up from the valley floor. I knew we'd be in for a hike, which was real good as well. I needed to stretch the legs. We hiked up the mountain checking likely spots and stump shooting along the way. We saw a ton of deer with a spike and decent 3 point, why they haven't dropped, I don't know.
 

We gained a few hundred feet in elevation and flushed a rabbit. It ran by Conner with an arrow flying right behind it, it then lept up the hill. I figured it would stop in cover when it got out of site. I cruised up the hill and got to the top, out of wind. I spotted movement in the thick brush, picked a spot a promptly hit some branches in front of the rabbit.
   

This is the different part of the hunt. We then spotted some bighorns bedded and decided to get a closer look. We climbed and got to them and took a few photos with out disturbing them. We were a good 200 yards away, so didn't get real great pics. This is a decent ram with some ewes.

 

 
I find it interesting how when you guys back east talk rabbits, it's thick brush. Here it's steep mouintains, with bighorns bedded above them      

 

 

Criminey..you have got me drooling.

What bow is that your shooting?

Conner is shooting my schafer (the pic in the thread) I shoot a mowhawk longbow.

I think your style of rabbit hunting trumps ours Ryan (at least scenery wise)! Thanks for the donation to the Bunny Stomp too!

Great outing Ryan. I like the "No Briar's" part. I'm good with hills.

Very cool, thanks for sharring.

Great pics Ryan!  You will never get to see those things if you don't get out and do it!!  Good for you guys.

Hey, you going to the western park shoot in Vernal in a couple weeks??

Fantastic outing, yes sir, the rabbits around here like it thick thicker and thickest, and no big horns to speak of.

Dam, I never see big horn sheep when I rabbit hunt, I don't get it,    , nice !!

Nice pics!

Sweet pics! That would be a fun hunt!!

Looks like a grand time.

Great photos. Where I hunt rabbits, it's brushy undergrowth in pine forests.

I'm jealous  :D      

Tracy

Good pics!!!

Thanks for sharing! Nice pics!

Steadman has been working out so I was having a tough time keeping up with him! You guys think the bighorns are cool.... Try seeing Steadman running up the hill in hot pursuit of a cottontail, if not for the brush, that rabbit was in trouble  

Looks like a great time.  The last time I hunted in Colorado with the boom stick, it was snowy and cold.  Saw a ton of rabbits out in the sage and all I could think about was how cool it would be to have my longbow and quiver full of blunts.  I ended up getting an elk, but was almost more interested in the bunnies!

Great pictures.That sounds like alot of fun.

I've also had the privilidge of watching steadman run after rabbits, second in silliness only to watching me!