Best to time for rabbits?

[Red Hawk]

I got back from looking for rabbits to shoot with my bow and i saw nothing out there.I know they usually come out just before dark. Would Spring, Fall, Winter or Summer be best time of the year?

[buckmastr229]

i usally like it just b4 dark to hunt them but i take the 22 instead

[sawbill]

Around here its in the morning just after a real cold night, like -20 or -30 degrees. They run like crazy next day and you'll see them everywhere. However, as seein yur from California this info may not be of much help

[Red Hawk]

I used to go shooting with an .22 but that was before i realized how fun it is to shoot a bow [:-]

As for me being in Cali. It doesnt get that cold out here needless to say. The coldest its been this year is 36. I used to live in montana so this 'cold' weather doesnt bother me nor did it before lol

[coolbrze0]

I like early morning since they've been moving around at night and still move well into the morning hrs. It makes it easy for the dogs to pick up their scent.

[farmcntry]

Almost all day right now in my area. We went yesterday with dogs and jumped around 15. Had 12 good races and killed 6. It was around 7 degrees when we got started and all the rabbits were out of the thickets and in light brush in the woods.

[Shotgun Mike]

Here in Britain its an all year round job, night and day. If you've got some coney burrows near a field where you hunt ask the farmer if you can shoot them as they run from the crops at harvest time, i've had some good bags from that.

[Canadian Hunter312]

just like some other game....best time round here is from dawn to the next 2 hours or so. then around noon to 1. then an hour before sunset to dark.

heh....best time if ever seen was after about 5cms of snow in the morning and that evening there was a full moon....right about sunset wen it would be too dark normally but with the full moon we saw lots of rabbits as it was almost like day time....kinda cool.

but if ya got a couple good dogs and possibly a human dog (to jump on brush piles for ya) then a bunny can be kicked up as far as i know....


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[j3k2c1]

I like winter. basically they are out more of the time when they have to be searching for food constantly. also they are much easier to see in the snow.

[Red Hawk]

I haven't seen much of anything out here. The places that used to be great for rabbits is pretty much dead. What a wasteland i live in [:'(]