I tell you why. Because there's hardly any rabbits left there. I live in Colorado now but I was born and raised in Northern Indiana. When I was a kid you could go anywhere and shoot a few rabbits. Permission wasn't a problem, and you'd see plenty of cottontails. But in time everything changed. 1. The coyote population has drastically grown and put a good dent in the rabbits. 2. Permission to hunt is near impossible anymore! Where I lived in the Northern part of the state all the land was leased. The Chicago a$#holes came over year after year, more and more offering money to all the farmers who let us locals hunt our whole lives untill they had all the ground tied up, and us locals had nowhere left to hunt. I'm serious when I say there are more Illinois hunters there than Indiana guys! 3. And probably the biggest reason is they don't have the habitat they used too. Every damn farmer destroys thousands of acres of wildlife habitat every year! Think back years ago when every ditch bank was lined with heavy brush and good old oaks.... Now they're bare. They wipe out all the ditches, and even starting to wipe out entire woods! About 3 miles from where I lived just before I moved an old farmer sold his ground to a "big time" farmer. He had approximately 300 acres of field and a beautiful 100 acre woods. First thing that guy did when he took ownership was wipe out that entire woods to make more field! Just doze it all into piles and burn it! Makes me sick! But anyway... That's why.... Bunnies are an endangered species in Indiana anymore....