Rabbits at night?

I have done this many times when the night's coyote hunting has been bad and we didn't want to go home empty handed.

We have always waited til there was snow and at least half a moon to make seeing them without a light easy. Once spotted we hit them with the ol red light and pop them.

Kinda like deer hunting - just sit down in a place with a strong population and await movement.

We had an older farmer out here who would go out after a good snowfall and get rabbits with an axe handle. He would walk out in the back pasture along the fenceline and when he stopped he would swat at the ground with the hickory handle. He would then bend over and pull a dead bunny out of the snow!!! He never did show us how he did that so easily....wish he had!!!

You can't use a light to hunt rabbits.

IC 14-22-6-7
Jacklighting prohibited
Sec. 7. (a) This section does not apply to an employee of the department or an employee of a federal wildlife management agency who:
(1) is acting in the performance of the employee's duties; and
(2) has received the express written consent of the director for the employee's action.
(b) A person may not knowingly throw or cast the rays of any spotlight or other artificial light:
(1) not required by law on a motor vehicle; and
(2) in search of or upon any wild bird or wild animal;
from a vehicle while the person possesses a firearm, bow, or crossbow, if by throwing or casting the rays a wild bird or wild animal could be killed. This subsection applies even though the animal is not killed, injured, shot at, or otherwise pursued.
(c) A person may not take any wildlife, except furbearing mammals, with the aid of illumination of any spotlight, searchlight, or other artificial light.
(d) A person may not shine a spotlight, searchlight, or other artificial light for the purpose of taking, attempting to take, or assisting another person to take a deer.
As added by P.L.1-1995, SEC.15. Amended by P.L.13-2007, SEC.1.



IC 14-8-2-108
"Furbearing mammal"
Sec. 108. "Furbearing mammal", for purposes of IC 14-22, means beaver, red fox, gray fox, long tailed weasel, mink, muskrat, raccoon, coyote, opossum, or skunk.

Isn't a rabbit a "furbearing mammal"?

I once had some rabbit fur lined gloves and they were very warm.

Link is dead..

Thanks Dan!

I am sooooooooo confused.

Does a deer have fur?

You know the simple thing would be: If you can hunt that animal at night than you can use a light.

Thanks Decatur, mounted the q-beam on my bicycle handlebars ;D