where have all the rabbits gone?!

[Deker 3,478]

Mixxy comes and goes, the fox comes and goes and winter comes and goes, etc!

 

The rabbit is always less active during the winter months, they do their best to build up a bit of fat reservse through the Summer/Autumn (this is evident when you skin them) and then stay home a lot more until Spring turns up!

 

December and January I find the worst, followed by November and February. October and March can be variable (both good for me last year) but the other 6 months are usually chaos!!

[IanB 0]

Plenty around still in certain areas, I've left places with difficult access and hedges/cover to die off for the ferrets, so I'll have to get my ass into gear now... No more signs of myxy....

[waidmann 105]

we have seen a few out( and sitting very tight).

the rabbit we have had ferreting were fat as f@@@ though(friday).

good luck all.

[ade the rabbiter 0]

was out the other week on a full moon and there where quite a few out, then the snow happened went out yesterday to set the new gun up and saw quiet a few warrens flooded right out, poor drowning bunnies could of had me after them instead much quicker

[FLATTOP 4,448]

Went out last friday on the lamp to a place where the bunnys are a near cert nothing at all we thought it unusal we got two foxes though .My shooting partner went out yesterday to ferret a few warrens and the ferrets refused to enter on closer inspection they were all flooded out all that sitting snow has drowned them i reckon roll on the spring.

[langouroux 14]

AH ! flooded warrens didnt think of that! nice one lads.

[Colster 1]

Well went out Tuesday and they were very thin on the ground. Got 4 and a Hare (don't shoot many Hare but this particular farm has a couple of fields overrun with them).

 

We decided to have a look over onto another farm which my mate recently got permission to shoot on, as we hadn't told the landowner we were coming we didn't shoot any as we couldn't be sure the horses would be away but 2 paddocks had about 20 just sitting out, not lamp shy at all.

[byrney 2]

been out lamping and over 3 night i have only shot 5 rabbits! and only seen about 8! hanyone else finding the same thing?

Same here mate Myxy did the rounds end of last year knocked them right back, so will leave the rest to breed up ( dont tell the farmer )

 

LD

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Aye i'm leaving them as well, better sport later in the year.

[viper 0]

HI M8T i have been out about 5 times after the snow before the snow we were getting between 10 and 15 a night but now there is nothing the odd 1 or 2 i agree with the other chap i think they have drowned in the burrows. there is still a lot of hares about tho it aint afected them