He excepted my invitation and we met at my house at 9:30. He had Dave with him.I also invited my friend Frank. We crossed the ditch and started down the hedge row. In only a few yards we jumped a rabbit. The dogs ran about half way down and lost it. Score: 1 - rabbits 0 - hunters. Calvin called the dogs back and threatened them with finding them a new home. We started hunting where we left off and within a few minutes the dogs jumped another rabbit. This rabbit headed west. He ran past the cabin and shed to the dirt road and came back to the bush pile behind the cabin. The dogs stayed on him but he wasn't coming out of the bush pile. Score: 2 - rabbits 0 - hunters.
Well the dogs didn't get in trouble over that one. We hunted out to the end of the hedge row and along the edge of the woods. Soon jumped #3. This rabbit knew just where he wanted to be. He went straight to a hole about 200 yards down the edge. Score: 3 - rabbits 0 - hunters. We got the dogs out of that hole and went back to edge to find #4.
Within a few minutes the dogs were going strong. This one bypassed the hole and ran Calvin's way.
We got to the corner of the woods and jumped #5. This rabbit did a little woods running and field running till Dave put a stop to it.
We went back in the corner and dogs where running again. Calvin got this one coming back .
I jumped the next one in the new bush pile behind my duck blind.
The dogs saw him come out and were on it hard. The rabbit made a nice big circle. Frank and I stayed at the bush pile, the dogs were getting close to the bush pile when the rabbit came out from under the duck blind. I emptied both barrels at him and he just keep going and going.
But in a few minutes I heard a shot and Calvin stopped him.
We went to the thicket by the wetlands next. Calvin got two more. I jumped a big covey of quail on the east side of the thicket, they flew across to the woods on the other side of the road. That hasn't happened since the 1980's, it was really a great site. Then we headed over by plot 4. Dave and I got some rabbits.
Ended the day there about 2:30, with a total bag of 11. Leaving lots of rabbits for the next hunt. Calvin said it was his best day this season. HABITAT IS THE KEY.
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