Be very very quiet...

Brent · Jan 31, 2017

It's time to hunt wabbits. Anyone heading back out in the woods tomorrow for a different game with a white (cotton) tail now that deer are out?
I'll be in my tripod tomorrow. How about you??

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Mike3888 · Jan 31, 2017

Yup for sure, but not till Saturday, hounds won't leave me alone. They know what is coming.

tallen702 · Jan 31, 2017

Was pretty tempted to take one out last night. Was behind the house taking the garbage out when I saw one down by the garden. Mind you, this was after shooting hours and out of season.....

j_h_smith · Jan 31, 2017

With all of the foxes we have in my area, I don't think I've seen a rabbit in almost 2 years. I guess between the foxes, the red tailed hawks and bald eagles, there won't be too many small game animals around. I very rarely see any squirrels.

Good luck to those who are Fudding around in the woods.

rob-cubed · Jan 31, 2017

I'm not a hunter, got no idea what's legal... but the bunnies decimated my garden last 1-2 years. We used to have a fox or two around, but haven't seen it one a while. Have a huge excess of rabbit now. SOMEONE needs to play predator.

Is trapping legal all year? What about taking the lil fluffballs out with a pellet gun? I could probably bag three in just one warm evening.

Brent · Feb 1, 2017

rob-cubed said:
I'm not a hunter, got no idea what's legal... but the bunnies decimated my garden last 1-2 years. We used to have a fox or two around, but haven't seen it one a while. Have a huge excess of rabbit now. SOMEONE needs to play predator.

Is trapping legal all year? What about taking the lil fluffballs out with a pellet gun? I could probably bag three in just one warm evening.

Trapping not sure about. But right now until February 28 you can bag four a day. Now as its on your property, I don't think anyone will bat an eye at you popping one or two with a pellet gun any day of the year

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tallen702 · Feb 1, 2017

rob-cubed said:
I'm not a hunter, got no idea what's legal... but the bunnies decimated my garden last 1-2 years. We used to have a fox or two around, but haven't seen it one a while. Have a huge excess of rabbit now. SOMEONE needs to play predator.

Is trapping legal all year? What about taking the lil fluffballs out with a pellet gun? I could probably bag three in just one warm evening.

Nuisance animals may be trapped and killed year round according to the DNR.

Pretty sure this doesn't extend to deer unless it's a crop damage permit, but they're fine with me trapping squirrels that attempt to enter my buddy's soffits and shooting rabbits and groundhogs that invade my garden.

lazarus · Feb 1, 2017

tallen702 said:
Nuisance animals may be trapped and killed year round according to the DNR.

Pretty sure this doesn't extend to deer unless it's a crop damage permit, but they're fine with me trapping squirrels that attempt to enter my buddy's soffits and shooting rabbits and groundhogs that invade my garden.

This. Also a 22 and some CCI quiets and you won't even disturb your neighbors.

Though you need 150 yards to the nearest occupied building on your neighbor's property (technically including with a pellet gun)

tallen702 · Feb 1, 2017

lazarus said:
This. Also a 22 and some CCI quiets and you won't even disturb your neighbors.

Though you need 150 yards to the nearest occupied building on your neighbor's property (technically including with a pellet gun)

Shoot, all you need is your neighbor's permission! Mine have all given me a blanket "If it moves and is a nuisance, kill it" written permission slip. The number of groundhogs and summer bunnies that have gone to the foxes and coyotes in the woods behind us is pretty sizeable for my little 3/4 of an acre.

pbharvey · Feb 1, 2017

Maybe it's just me but it seems like I don't see nearly the number of rabbits I used to see years ago.

lazarus · Feb 1, 2017

tallen702 said:
Shoot, all you need is your neighbor's permission! Mine have all given me a blanket "If it moves and is a nuisance, kill it" written permission slip. The number of groundhogs and summer bunnies that have gone to the foxes and coyotes in the woods behind us is pretty sizeable for my little 3/4 of an acre.

I'd consider asking, but one of my neighbors is a little kookie and I think my across street neighbor would say no. She's a big horse person and has chickens. She was asking what to do about a hawk that took one of her chickens, I jokingly suggested a 12 gauge and the look of horror on her face was both priceless and sad (especially because I was joking. Now if it was a fox...). Besides, according to Howard county, you can't shoot crap unless you are on a 10 acre lot of bigger. I guess I could get a bow to get around that since I am only on an acre (few neighbors around me are an 1.01-1.3ac and my across the street neighbor is on 5)

tallen702 · Feb 2, 2017

lazarus said:
I'd consider asking, but one of my neighbors is a little kookie and I think my across street neighbor would say no. She's a big horse person and has chickens. She was asking what to do about a hawk that took one of her chickens, I jokingly suggested a 12 gauge and the look of horror on her face was both priceless and sad (especially because I was joking. Now if it was a fox...). Besides, according to Howard county, you can't shoot crap unless you are on a 10 acre lot of bigger. I guess I could get a bow to get around that since I am only on an acre (few neighbors around me are an 1.01-1.3ac and my across the street neighbor is on 5)

Ahh, gotcha. Not in HoCo here.

The previous owner of my house used to blast groundhogs from his dining room window with a 12ga.

lazarus · Feb 2, 2017

tallen702 said:
Ahh, gotcha. Not in HoCo here.

The previous owner of my house used to blast groundhogs from his dining room window with a 12ga.

I keep having a ground hog snooping around my garden. It hasn't torn it up yet, but one of these days if I see it in the open, it might just meet a tragic end. Who can tell if it was a pellet gun or a CCI quiet.

tallen702 · Feb 3, 2017

lazarus said:
I keep having a ground hog snooping around my garden. It hasn't torn it up yet, but one of these days if I see it in the open, it might just meet a tragic end. Who can tell if it was a pellet gun or a CCI quiet.

I shoot groundhogs in my yard all summer long with .22 shorts. Neighbors don't even hear it. I prefer the shorts because .22lr over-penetrates at the ranges I'm hitting them.

lazarus · Feb 3, 2017

tallen702 said:
I shoot groundhogs in my yard all summer long with .22 shorts. Neighbors don't even hear it. I prefer the shorts because .22lr over-penetrates at the ranges I'm hitting them.

I figure quiets would work well and shouldn't over penetrate a ground hog. Besides unless I aim high, my property slopes up hill so he'd have ground behind him. So long as he doesn't climb a tree I have a safe "backstop", plus out a window makes it that much more of a downward angle.

Honestly not sure I would. But I wouldn't rule it out.

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