I went hunting yesterday but didnt make it today.
I worked Thursday night and didnt get in till 4 am Friday morning, loaded up the dogs and went hunting till around noon, then stayed up the rest of the day. By last Friday night all I wanted to do was go to bed.
I was pretty pleased with my dogs especially considering the cold. They ran rabbits pretty much all morning and did it alot better than I thought they would with everything being frozen solid.
They ran one cottontail in a sagegrass field for close to an hour before we got a shot at him. When he'd hit the woods theyd gear it down and almost walk him across those dry, frozen leaves.
Another rabbit kept running in and out of this elm thicket that had a bunch of water that was frozen. He'd get on that ice and run for a little ways, then jump off and circle back. To see one with his nose down on solid ice barking on a line will make you stop and think about just how good the sense of smell is on those little dogs that we all have. :thumb:
We only killed one and missed two more but it was still a heck of a hunt imo. They ran rabbits almost constantly, they just wouldnt come out of that sagegrass/thicket to get a shot at em.
I worked Thursday night and didnt get in till 4 am Friday morning, loaded up the dogs and went hunting till around noon, then stayed up the rest of the day. By last Friday night all I wanted to do was go to bed.
I was pretty pleased with my dogs especially considering the cold. They ran rabbits pretty much all morning and did it alot better than I thought they would with everything being frozen solid.
They ran one cottontail in a sagegrass field for close to an hour before we got a shot at him. When he'd hit the woods theyd gear it down and almost walk him across those dry, frozen leaves.
Another rabbit kept running in and out of this elm thicket that had a bunch of water that was frozen. He'd get on that ice and run for a little ways, then jump off and circle back. To see one with his nose down on solid ice barking on a line will make you stop and think about just how good the sense of smell is on those little dogs that we all have. :thumb:
We only killed one and missed two more but it was still a heck of a hunt imo. They ran rabbits almost constantly, they just wouldnt come out of that sagegrass/thicket to get a shot at em.
