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I smell a rabbit. You smell a rabbit? Lets run that one.
Are we there yet?
Sissy threw up on me….again
Let me ouuuuutttttttt

Suffice to say that Sammie doesn’t travel well at least in the same box as Sissy.

This continued on most of the way to Opelika. Haven, Brag, Dustin and I were meeting to go up to Plunker's place in Chambers County for a pre-season exercise.
Brag and I took all of the "Girls". And Sammie.
Haven brought only Elmer. Coco was in heat and Dixie was on the sold list.
Dustin, the former teat, brought Dustin's dog. And Tyler's stray.
Beagler 282 had been invited but had commitments for field trails.

To dry

Lucy picked up the rabbit near where we put out. It was a good though short run. The dogs had to much trouble staying on the dry scent on the dry brush. Today, Monday, would have been better after a good long soaking from the Sunday rainstorms.

Katie hit the next track. The dogs took off, but shortly Dustin's dogs, Elmer, and the pups came back. Lucy, Katie and Penny were gone a long while. Doubtful it was a deer. Katie won't run a deer. Lets put it this way, she hasn't ran a deer in years. Even Lucy and Penny have decided they are to much trouble.
Now a fox or a bobcat.........

We put the dogs up shortly after to wait for more favorable conditions. ]]> Pre-season races 08-09 http://www.therabbitjournal.com/journal/index.php?itemid=747 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:29:52 -0500 http://www.therabbitjournal.com/journal/index.php?itemid=745
Rabbit Hunter stuff like mugs, and such. I ordered two items to check the quality of the print and they were good. There are shirts available, BUT, for those who use my site, we'll get a much better deal with better quality from djmed. If you can't wait, have at it.

The second store is more specific to the East Alabama Rabbit Hunters & Souse Eaters Social Club. I haven't ordered from it yet, so I can't attest to the quality of the print, but online samples looked good.]]> General http://www.therabbitjournal.com/journal/index.php?itemid=745 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:51:14 -0500 http://www.therabbitjournal.com/journal/index.php?itemid=743
May I introduceSirloin and Ribeye
]]> General http://www.therabbitjournal.com/journal/index.php?itemid=743 Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:44:00 -0500 http://www.therabbitjournal.com/journal/index.php?itemid=741 Remington 550 / 512 .22 Inner Magazine Tube Assembly for GF's plinking gun from Numrich on Friday. It arrived today, Monday.
Fast service and what looks like a reasonable price.

I can't wait to try it er I mean for GF to try it out]]> General http://www.therabbitjournal.com/journal/index.php?itemid=741 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:01:42 -0500 http://www.therabbitjournal.com/journal/index.php?itemid=737 If you are involved with field trials and would like to post meetings, results, stories and pics
If you build a dog box, dog pen,......... and think that others might like to see it, the construction and plans
If you want to post on dog care
If you want to post on pre-season or season hunts
If you want to post on laws
If you want try your hand at using your dad's (wifes?) video camera, We can load them on youtube or other free sites and embed them on the Journal
if.....

Drop me a line.
I only require that

You DO NOT violate copy write laws. There is fair use of published material, but it is limited in words and scope.

No personal attacks. It's ok to disagree with others positions and ideas about how to go about things, but personal attacks are taboo

All pictures must be sized. I use a free program that can be downloaded and I get great results batch sizing pictures to post

You're posts must be coherent and use a spell check. Yes, I often intentionally and unintentionally misspell a word and many times use the wrong word. Sometime my syntax is wrong. But I do work at it using a spell check grammar check,... and other tools that are available on Microsoft Word processor or, what I often use, Open Office, since I feel that Bill Gates has enough money.
By the way, my website looks a little different in FireFox than it does in Internet Explorer. For instance, in some IE you can't see the changing picture collage in the left column immediately below the "Front Page" link. And FireFox has upgraded to a more secure, stable version

I'm not a prude, But (don't we love that word) keep it clean.

Thou shall not take the Lords name in vain

There might be other rules that come with others using the site
Remember this site is not a democracy, it is a benevolent dictatorship
]]> General http://www.therabbitjournal.com/journal/index.php?itemid=737 Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:22:12 -0500 http://www.therabbitjournal.com/journal/index.php?itemid=735 couple of posts that I did on first aid kits.

Being prepared can save you a dog or a partner]]> Equipment http://www.therabbitjournal.com/journal/index.php?itemid=735 Thu, 19 Jun 2008 06:27:20 -0500 http://www.therabbitjournal.com/journal/index.php?itemid=733 "Nope" was my reply, "not even a grass snake."

Doc Caldwell who doesn't live to far from Rabbit Run said "you will, believe me, you will."

And I do and I did

I was out counting t'posts and round posts on the fence line for an electric fence I'm going to put up sometime after Plunker and I go to the cow auction in Randolph County tomorrow when I spotted a four foot timber rattler stretched out under the pecan tree in the middle pasture. He/she was only fifty yards from the house and twentyfive yards from where the girls (and Sammie) had ran the other day.



Watch where you put your feet and hands when your out and about in God's great outdoors. There's always a serpent in the garden.
Of course, it's probably old hat for BB

]]> General http://www.therabbitjournal.com/journal/index.php?itemid=733 Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:56:27 -0500 http://www.therabbitjournal.com/journal/index.php?itemid=731
Great trip out of Destin Saturday. We had some clouds and went through a little rain, but the seas were very calm.

We had 3 boys fishing with us - 2 eleven year olds and 1 ten- and they were on fire. I had a ball watching them and couldn't believe the size of the fish they brought up without any help.

Lots of nice fish- Amberjack up to 40 pounds,Grouper up to 30. We even caught a nice Wahoo on the fly line.

Awesome day on the big pond!



Ladies, did I mention he's single? I did? Well, maybe that's why he can afford these trips.
And I feel that I should point out to djmed, it's not nice to hold the kids fish up like you caught them.
More pics on the item page








]]> General http://www.therabbitjournal.com/journal/index.php?itemid=731 Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:10:36 -0500 http://www.therabbitjournal.com/journal/index.php?itemid=729 Yep, but I had to fire both fingers.

I stood, this morning in the deep shade offered by tall privet, sweet gum and tall devils walking sticks . Only the occasional vine ran up the tree trunks in search of the light that was stopped by the thick canopy some twenty feet above the mostly barren ground. There was a line of big rubs made by a buck whitetail that often hid in the bottom during deer season.
My duty was to turn the rabbit as he made for the property line and the thick undergrowth that covered that section of a neighbor’s former pasture. I didn’t want the girls (and Sammie) tangling with his burro, if I could avoid it.

The Girls (and Sammie) were in hot pursuit of the pasture rabbit that they had jumped midway down the ponds drainage creek in the back yard of Rabbit Run. The shape of the area surrounded by pasture was roughly
//= = >O with the o being the pond.

There was a new voice joining in with Lucy‘s yard dog bark, Katie’s one note hammering and Penny‘s modified bay. Kind of a high pitched squeal. It wasn’t Sammie who sounds a lot like Penny, and I’m pretty sure it wasn’t Sissy, so that leaves Sally, the oldest of the puppies.
I didn’t see the rabbit this time, but the girls (and Sammie) curled up the hill in front of me, out into the paddock where their pen is. A fast loop through one of my gardens and then back into the really thick briars and willows below the dam.

I moved up to the opposing hillside and listened to the girls as they (and Sammie) crossed the now dry creek bed.

The rabbit popped up out of the thick and ran the edge of the pasture towards where I was standing under a oak where the woods makes a right angle. A deer, probably the author of the line of big rubs behind me, often makes a scrape under it’s low lying limbs.

I waited, tracking him, waiting for him to close the gap to a decent shooting distance.
Bang!
Bang!
Even in the preseason, I shoot about as well as I do when actually hunting. Maybe, even a little better, but it still took firing both fingers.

The pups stayed with the “Girls” most of the morning though I did see Sally looking for me while I was at the house refilling my coffee cup.

It was a good race.
I can think of nothing better for the pups than to run with the big girls after rabbits with no deer around. They might not be to sure of what’s happening, but they are bonding and if Sally’s squeal was any indication, beginning to catch on]]> Pre-season races 08-09 http://www.therabbitjournal.com/journal/index.php?itemid=729 Sat, 14 Jun 2008 16:28:02 -0500 http://www.therabbitjournal.com/journal/index.php?itemid=728 Might make for an interesting time. At least, it would give me something to post about. I could take pictures (with telephoto lens) from the backup boat]]> General http://www.therabbitjournal.com/journal/index.php?itemid=728 Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:50:00 -0500