He and my father, Glen, had taught me firearm safety, hunting ethics and conservation respect. All of these were given in doses that an eight year old could digest. My love of dogs on a hot track was spawned in those early days and stick with me solid even now. Well, this is not a first hunt story. Instead it is about the target of that first hunt and that first moving shot.
Rabbit hunting is steeped with tradition.
Dogs, guns and bunnies have forever been a large part of our hunting mindset. No other game is so accessible, so plentiful, so tasty and so much fun to shoot. Not many hunters can tell one type of rabbit from another. The habitats of the cottontails and their look alikes are similar, though certainly not exact, and the way they act and live is determined by the terrain they in and the cover they have available. And, to some degree, the method used in hunting the rabbits that inhabit an area.