Rabbit Hunting

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rabbit hunting or cottontail hunting is a kind of small game hunting, an activity involving the tracking, chase, and sometimes killing of a rabbit. Hunting of rabbits involving dogs (usually beagle or basset hounds) is called beagling. Hunters without hounds have the following options. A hunter, alone or with a partner, walks through the possible locations of rabbit hiding places, kicking or stomping possible covers to chase the rabbit out. In winter an advantage is visible rabbit tracks after fresh snow. Unravelling tracks allows the hunter to locate the hiding place: if no tracks leave out of a suspected location, then the quarry is located. After this, hunters with short range arms (archers or the ones with small calibre) may scrutinize the location to find the rabbit and shoot it immobile. Alternatively, one may just as well scare the animal out and shoot it on the run.