Rabbit And Bramble's

[Probuk 93]

Just sat reading the same old threads so thought id get a fresh one going.

 

When i was a kid, about 8 years old i use to catch rabbits with Brambles. Does or has anyone else ever used this method.

 

Whats the most unusual method you've used for catching rabbits

 

Marty

Edited March 9, 2013 by Probuk

[nod 285]

I killed a young rabbit with a carrot. I was walking to set cages and I see him sitting tight and only had carrot to hand. Good size carrot at about 8 yards in the noggin

[saintsman54 15]

Heard a story of "the best way to kill a rabbit" firstly find burrow, lodge a brick above burrow entrance, sprinkle black pepper in the burrow entrance, wait, when rabbits wonder out it will sniff the pepper, go to sneeze, then knock itself out on the brick! ........... easy

[j1985 1,984]

I've read about the bramble trick but never done it, run me through how you used to do it.

[Probuk 93]

  On 10/03/2013 at 01:45, j1985 said:

I've read about the bramble trick but never done it, run me through how you used to do it.

Its simple, but most of what i cought where in stoppers or shallow burrows. My farm bred border collie would mark a hole and start digging at the entrence. Id find a bramble bush and snap off a good lengh, then find what ever i could to dig down to it a little, id dig down so far with the help of my stone mad collie then keep putting the bramble down till i felt the rabbit kicking at it, Then slowley start to twist it into its fur until it had a good grip on it, then just slowley pull the rabbit out. They always come out arse end first

 

Marty

[fitchet 788]

There was an apple orchard near where i grew up with rabbit proof fencing around it. As kids we would block up the holes in the fencing and chase the rabbits till the hit a fence then you could catch them ...

[unlacedgecko 1,467]

I was out lamping with my mate over the weekend. In one field there was a telegraph pole. It had diagonal straining wires. The bottom 3ft of the wire was clad in wood. There were 3 rabbits in the field. My mate slipped his dog. We were following the course in the beam, when from the side we heard a thump. The dog caught the rabbit. looking around the field another rabbit had killed itself running into the wooden cladding on the wires.

[saharashadow 26]

Haven't done it using bramble but know of people who have. I have got a couple of bunnies out of stop ends when I haven't been able to reach them, but using a length of barbed wire which works on the same principle.

[j1985 1,984]

  On 10/03/2013 at 12:24, Probuk said:

 

  On 10/03/2013 at 01:45, j1985 said:

 

I've read about the bramble trick but never done it, run me through how you used to do it.

Its simple, but most of what i cought where in stoppers or shallow burrows. My farm bred border collie would mark a hole and start digging at the entrence. Id find a bramble bush and snap off a good lengh, then find what ever i could to dig down to it a little, id dig down so far with the help of my stone mad collie then keep putting the bramble down till i felt the rabbit kicking at it, Then slowley start to twist it into its fur until it had a good grip on it, then just slowley pull the rabbit out. They always come out arse end first

 

Marty

My bull marks and tries to dig to them too, he's as bonkers as a collie lol

 

I'll try this, sounds fun.

[Pierre le Grim 0]

Tonight I was telling a load of mates in the pub about brambling rabbits,  We did it as teenagers.

Nobody in the pub had heard of it . I'm home now and a bit pissed, but I thought I'd google it and here I am.

That's two of us!

Nice one, friend.  

[jok 3,375]

Slightly off topic but same era. Catching pheasants underground? I had a perm on the side of a big shoot but to get caught was unthinkable. However. Laying down a grain of wheat, about every foot or so into a rabbit hole was enough to get the bird to follow the food. Now, a pheasant can’t walk backwards especially out of a hole so it was fairly easy to just go and collect. We did have quite a number of birds. Jok.

[Arry 22,863]

  On 05/03/2025 at 23:37, Pierre le Grim said:

Tonight I was telling a load of mates in the pub about brambling rabbits,  We did it as teenagers.

Nobody in the pub had heard of it . I'm home now and a bit pissed, but I thought I'd google it and here I am.

That's two of us!

Nice one, friend.  

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Done it with a hazel whip and bramble and I think the hazel whip is best. Used the same way sometimes better to strip the bark off the thin end twist gently til it locks not to far or it brakes then easy it out.

I read a a story where at night lads would take a bag of straw to a bank that held rabbits block as many holes at arms length with the straw. Then scare the rabbits back into the hedge the same as long netting but with out a net. Then put your arm down check ever hole thats blocked. I've never tried it but cant see why it wouldn't work.

Cheers Arry

[gazjon5 870]

Cant see why it wouldnt work either.

Your post reminded me of a day out with my mate years ago ferreting a bank / small hill, just nets and ferrets (no dogs). A rabbit bolted out of a hole we had missed with the nets, ran down the hill, across a small field, and up the bank opposite us. Their it disappeared down a hole. Not 3 seconds later it bolted out of a hole beside the first, and ran down the hill back towards us. We crouched down and the silly sod ran back across the field, up our bank and backnetted itself in a pursenet we had set.  Thanks for reminding me!