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Jim Homegrown Guru Sam and Cooper's Daddy...Jim to everyone else Posts: 1,051	going rabbit hunting Jan 8, 2010 17:17:16 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Jim on Jan 8, 2010 17:17:16 GMT -5 Tomorrow....so excited.
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sandbar master gardener Posts: 737	going rabbit hunting Jan 8, 2010 23:29:19 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by sandbar on Jan 8, 2010 23:29:19 GMT -5 Go git 'em, Elmer!! (short clip) www.youtube.com/watch?v=u14T5wzicqw (full cartoon) www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgAVroI6_34&feature=related
	Last Edit: Jan 8, 2010 23:30:01 GMT -5 by sandbar 1/2 acre market garden, nice loam with a little too much clay. Farm has gently rolling hills at 1250' elevation, with commercial crops (rented acerage), pasture, and wood lot.

trixtrax Seasoned vet Posts: 299	going rabbit hunting Jan 9, 2010 6:33:08 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by trixtrax on Jan 9, 2010 6:33:08 GMT -5 Oh, boy Wabbits! Great post sandbar. Good luck Jim. Do you use traps? How do you usually cook them?

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going rabbit hunting Jan 9, 2010 13:36:20 GMT -5

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Post by Jim on Jan 9, 2010 13:36:20 GMT -5

I went with a 20gauge shotgun. I shot at one and missed. A friend got one though. I plan on cooking it in the crockpot with carrots, taters, onions, and half a can of coke. Suposedly tastes like sweet and sour chicken when done...never ate rabbit or went hunting before. It was a good time.

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going rabbit hunting Jan 9, 2010 14:36:24 GMT -5

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Post by ozarklady on Jan 9, 2010 14:36:24 GMT -5

We raised rabbits for quite awhile. And sometimes kids go... I am not eating rabbit.
So, you simply cook them when kids aren't around. You can use them just like chicken in any recipe for chicken. If you remove the meat from the bones... no one will ever know that it is not chicken.... Unless you leave some lead in it from your bullets! ha ha
Just pretend it is chicken, and use your favorite recipe: rabbit and dumplings, rabbit and dressing, monterey rabbit, rabbit burritos, rabbit and spaghetti, etc.

Talk to your plants. If they talk to you... run!

Lat. 36 degrees, elevation 1496, heavy red clay, rolling land, even the flat isn't really! Heavy hardwood cover, within sight of a huge lake that will affect temps.

Dan gardener Posts: 246	going rabbit hunting Jan 9, 2010 16:21:05 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Dan on Jan 9, 2010 16:21:05 GMT -5 who did you do this with and why was i not invited? damn you.

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going rabbit hunting Jan 9, 2010 19:41:50 GMT -5

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Post by Jim on Jan 9, 2010 19:41:50 GMT -5

I went with andy from work. Sorry. I'll ask if you can go next time...We need guns.... I shot at one and only got a little fur. My shoulder is quite sore. Never shooting a real gun before had me unprepared for shotgun recoil...lol.

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going rabbit hunting Jan 9, 2010 21:59:12 GMT -5

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Post by plantsnobin on Jan 9, 2010 21:59:12 GMT -5

My husband rabbit hunts, but I don't like to eat them. Once you bite into a bb, you get a little leery. I prefer to eat our homegrown rabbits, although I am just not that crazy about rabbit meat. As I type this, there is a rabbit living in the office with me right now eating her supper. Last week we bought 3 more mini lops, one was used to living in heated quarters and it has been bitter cold here. So she is living inside till it warms up a bit. My husband is rabbit crazy. We have driven 6 hours to buy a rabbit. Seriously.

Dan gardener Posts: 246	going rabbit hunting Jan 10, 2010 11:49:04 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Dan on Jan 10, 2010 11:49:04 GMT -5 Nah I was just giving you hell. Nikki and I are looking at going to the range next month to shoot.

Jim Homegrown Guru Sam and Cooper's Daddy...Jim to everyone else Posts: 1,051	going rabbit hunting Jan 10, 2010 14:03:35 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Jim on Jan 10, 2010 14:03:35 GMT -5 I plan on hunting for more rabbit this winter and then deer next year. I'm ready,
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going rabbit hunting Jan 10, 2010 20:35:48 GMT -5

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Post by Alan on Jan 10, 2010 20:35:48 GMT -5

I went out in the snow rabbit/squirrel/whatever moves hunting today, didn't see anything but a lot of rabbit tracks followed by a lot of fox and coyotee tracks!

I love rabbit, both wild and domestic, and they both taste slightly different, as many of you here know I'm starting a breeding program and a meat rasing rabit program here on the farm. I can thank Karen and here husband for that partially, she told me two years ago I'd have them eventually and I said no, she was right! LOL

Anyhow, I'm going back again tomorrow. How did the rabbit cooking go my friend?

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going rabbit hunting Jan 10, 2010 22:43:54 GMT -5

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Post by sandbar on Jan 10, 2010 22:43:54 GMT -5

Jan 9, 2010 21:59:12 GMT -5 @plantsnobin said:

As I type this, there is a rabbit living in the office with me right now eating her supper.

Karen ... where's the sport in that? So, ya' just sits in your office with rabbit food scattered on the carpet and Bugsy lumbers in and ... BLAM ... BLAM-BLAM-BLAM-BLAMMA-BLAM!! (OK, so you aren't a very good shot...) ;D

I think it would be MUCH more sporting to hunt them OUTSIDE!!

Last Edit: Jan 12, 2010 12:50:34 GMT -5 by sandbar

1/2 acre market garden, nice loam with a little too much clay.
Farm has gently rolling hills at 1250' elevation, with commercial crops (rented acerage), pasture, and wood lot.

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going rabbit hunting Jan 10, 2010 22:47:46 GMT -5

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Post by sandbar on Jan 10, 2010 22:47:46 GMT -5

BTW, our church had a "Wild Game Supper" a few years as an evangelistic outreach into the community. Had quite a few Amish come to the dinner. We had judging for best meat dish (venison, goose, rabbit, turkey, elk, Kentucky Fried Chicken, etc.).

Anyhow, one of them brought his wife's Rabbit in Gravy ... oooooohhh, mama ... that was good. Anyhow, it got to the point that he knew I was looking for him. The last year we had it, we were cleaning up and he saw me standing next to the table and asked me if I wanted to finish the pan off. Well, of course! I have never tasted anything like it ... my mouth is watering now!

1/2 acre market garden, nice loam with a little too much clay.
Farm has gently rolling hills at 1250' elevation, with commercial crops (rented acerage), pasture, and wood lot.

Jim Homegrown Guru Sam and Cooper's Daddy...Jim to everyone else Posts: 1,051	going rabbit hunting Jan 12, 2010 10:37:12 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Jim on Jan 12, 2010 10:37:12 GMT -5 I ended up freezing the rabbit. I want to get a few more before I cook it up. I need more than one to feed the family.. Hoping to talk my friend into taking me out again soon.
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Dan gardener Posts: 246	going rabbit hunting Jan 12, 2010 20:45:42 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Dan on Jan 12, 2010 20:45:42 GMT -5 Which friend is it? I'm always interested if you need someone else to go.