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Post by bowonlykindofguy1 on Apr 17, 2024 5:49:08 GMT -5
If you have friends or family with an overgrown field/ fencerows. Might try there 1st for rabbits. If no access I would say most public land is not utilized a lot for small game. Bit public will be crowded during gun season for deer.
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Post by Mack Apiary Bees on Apr 17, 2024 6:09:38 GMT -5
If no dogs to assist, then kick any stick piles and likings. Rabbits like to hide in brush piles.
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Post by astronankin on Apr 27, 2024 20:24:35 GMT -5
We've had garden issues with rabbits in the past. Put up a deer fence and they still have created/found holes. So whenever they have seemed to multiply too much in our yard out comes the airgun. Not that it's a good gun, just that it does the job (eventually). I don't like using it, it can hit a rabbit but not a small bird which is what we actually bought it for (you know, House Sparrows). And even then you might wanna have more pellets in your pocket ready to be used if the first one doesn't hit the jackpot (typically it doesn't).
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Post by stevein on May 15, 2024 13:42:00 GMT -5
I have rabbits everywhere this spring. Most be that 10 year cycle. for beginners, would you recommend a place for small game hunting? thanks It would really help to put your general area on your post. Give guys an idea where to recommend you try. Places with crop fields near a brushy area. Brushy areas. Hawthorne thickets. Old overgrown cowpaths. Tall grassy areas before it snows. Almost all F&W areas have some good pockets of bunnies. Make it fun and simple get a good running beagle. The extra cost for a running dog will more make up for a disappointment when a pup does not work out. Just do not believe the sellers pitch. A good hound should be able to run a track on it's own. Helps if they are deer broke. |
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Post by astronankin on May 21, 2024 14:55:45 GMT -5
Anyone else here "hunting" rabbits with airguns, etc as pest control? We started doing that here at home a few weeks ago and already like 5 or more are no more. Use an airgun. Couple of slightly tame ones who hadn't learned lessons or just became tamer once we stopped shooting at them last year. They had a bunch of babies about a month ago or more. See a few little cuties running around. Also was the signal for us to start rabbit control again. My dad's put like 4 on the ground. I put one on the ground.
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Post by bowonlykindofguy1 on May 21, 2024 16:24:35 GMT -5
You do know rabbit season is closed right?
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Post by astronankin on May 24, 2024 6:48:44 GMT -5
You do know rabbit season is closed right? Landowner pest control. They eat our produce. And a few of them are getting tame. Pest control is allowed in Indiana on your own home land without a license and out of season for small game. We also try to shoot the little invasive House Sparrows but they know the gun by now so good luck on them. We don't eat any of the rabbits due to increase in parasite loads they have due ng the warm months. You can also shoot deer out of season for pest control here in Indiana but I think you do need some sort of license for that. On your own home land of course. During the season you can hunt them without a license on your home place as well. Doesn't matter if rabbit season is closed. If they are causing problems on your home place you can shoot them. Not gonna tell you how many we've shot in the garden, which has a deer fence up to keep animals out and the rabbits actually chewed holes in it by standing on their hind legs to reach above the chicken wire that was placed there to keep them from chewing! There was however for 2 years one rabbit that had a white blaze and she was off-limits until Dad caught her in the garden and needless to say there's been no more rabbits with blazes but there have been a few with some lighter colors in their coats. |
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Post by bowonlykindofguy1 on May 24, 2024 21:00:49 GMT -5
You do know rabbit season is closed right? Landowner pest control. They eat our produce. And a few of them are getting tame. Pest control is allowed in Indiana on your own home land without a license and out of season for small game. We also try to shoot the little invasive House Sparrows but they know the gun by now so good luck on them. We don't eat any of the rabbits due to increase in parasite loads they have due ng the warm months. You can also shoot deer out of season for pest control here in Indiana but I think you do need some sort of license for that. On your own home land of course. During the season you can hunt them without a license on your home place as well. Doesn't matter if rabbit season is closed. If they are causing problems on your home place you can shoot them. Not gonna tell you how many we've shot in the garden, which has a deer fence up to keep animals out and the rabbits actually chewed holes in it by standing on their hind legs to reach above the chicken wire that was placed there to keep them from chewing! There was however for 2 years one rabbit that had a white blaze and she was off-limits until Dad caught her in the garden and needless to say there's been no more rabbits with blazes but there have been a few with some lighter colors in their coats. I had no idea about pest control for small game. I knew about deprivation permits for deer. I apologize if you took offense to my post. Was just trying to look out because I thought you might be posting about something that would be very frowned upon by our friends in green. |
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Post by astronankin on May 29, 2024 7:45:35 GMT -5
Landowner pest control. They eat our produce. And a few of them are getting tame. Pest control is allowed in Indiana on your own home land without a license and out of season for small game. We also try to shoot the little invasive House Sparrows but they know the gun by now so good luck on them. We don't eat any of the rabbits due to increase in parasite loads they have due ng the warm months. You can also shoot deer out of season for pest control here in Indiana but I think you do need some sort of license for that. On your own home land of course. During the season you can hunt them without a license on your home place as well. Doesn't matter if rabbit season is closed. If they are causing problems on your home place you can shoot them. Not gonna tell you how many we've shot in the garden, which has a deer fence up to keep animals out and the rabbits actually chewed holes in it by standing on their hind legs to reach above the chicken wire that was placed there to keep them from chewing! There was however for 2 years one rabbit that had a white blaze and she was off-limits until Dad caught her in the garden and needless to say there's been no more rabbits with blazes but there have been a few with some lighter colors in their coats. I had no idea about pest control for small game. I knew about deprivation permits for deer. I apologize if you took offense to my post. Was just trying to look out because I thought you might be posting about something that would be very frowned upon by our friends in green. No offense taken. You do have to get a license and I think some other stuff if this isn't on your home property. Typically the pest control for small game is rabbits and small birds such as house sparrows and starlings. Crow you don't need to worry too much about unless you are a farmer with crops. Also for crows the time when they tend to be the worst is the time when Indiana has a lengthy crow hunting season. I forget which dates. So you can get a license and hunt them. We also trap raccoons on our property because they eat our chickens. A few have been relocated. Most get a .22 to the head, even the babies. We will shoot them if we happen to personally see them getting into a coop. Opossums just get let out. They learn their lessons pretty fast and also aren't mean like coons are. Most of the rabbits live along the property line. Whenever we shoot one that's near the line we make sure it's on our side. |
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Post by Mack Apiary Bees on May 30, 2024 6:28:31 GMT -5
Being a beekeeper, I also have to take a few coons and skunks. Opossums are the worst and agree, they get trapped once and it's a long time before one comes back. The small game likes to eat the bees during the night and damage the woodenware. Plus it puts the bees on edge during the day and hard to manage them. In Ohio, it's illegal to relocate wild animals.
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Post by astronankin on Jun 3, 2024 8:17:28 GMT -5
Some of our rabbits have gotten a little too tame. Not all of them have "learned a lesson" again yet.
Opossums are the easiest for us since they tend to stay away from humans. But once my brothers did find a baby in our field and it was really tame. They let it climb all over them. It was pretty cute.
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