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TheCream
12-08-2007, 05:48 PM
My first cottontail with the compound!

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i58/creamernator/DSC_0067.jpg

When we first started bowhunting rabbits, it was a "once or twice a year" type of thing just to relax and have some fun. In the last 2 years, since my 2 buddies I rabbit hunt with have tagged out on whitetails early each year, we get to rabbit hunt a little more and it has gotten a little more serious. There is just one property we take bows to for cottontails because of the way the cover is broken up, gun hunting would wipe 'em out FAST. It would be seriously too easy with a shotgun. Getting shots is not that tough, usually...hitting the little suckers is another thing! This was our second trip out there this fall, and we each have 1 kill now.

I made a pretty good shot on this one, and he still carried my arrow for about 20 yards before he was through. In the snow it was like following a whitetail's blood trail! The chest is skinned a bit in this photo where we took the heart out and fed it to the beagle who worked his butt off today. :D



Beau Martin
12-08-2007, 05:53 PM
Thats a neat idea to stay sharp. I intend to try pheasent with a bow later this season. good shot.
killbuckcreekgiants
12-08-2007, 05:58 PM
Thats really cool, I've never tried that before but it sounds like a lot of fun. What kind of tips do you use?
ap0317ah
12-08-2007, 07:04 PM
Nice, I want to try that only the yotes eat all the cotton tails, I've done it to tree rats. I've been hunting coons to stay sharp.
Tom
HeartLunger
12-08-2007, 07:14 PM
Awesome! Did you film that one?:) I think I'm going to have to give that a try...how many arrows have you lost before you harvested this one?
TheCream
12-08-2007, 07:22 PM
I actually just lost 2 arrows, both last year. I use the Shocker heads (like a judo point) when I have them, but this bunny I shot with a field tip and an adder point. This is a pic of what they look like behind a field tip, I actually turn the adder the other direction though so it has a little more "blunt force:"

http://www.jesseshunting.com/images/neet-game-stopper.jpg

I want to try some of the G5 small game heads, though. I think they would work great.
coopdog123
12-09-2007, 01:03 PM
i like to use judo points this year and last and overalll i have harvested 8 rabbits so far am going out tonight to try and get some more
deerhunt45
12-09-2007, 01:13 PM
Neat post Cream and nice shot! Come clean, you're catching them sitting right? I don't think I could hit a rabbit on the run. And pheasant hunting with a bow sounds way too extreme for me! Cool stuff though :D

45 :coolgleamA:
TheCream
12-09-2007, 08:21 PM
Neat post Cream and nice shot! Come clean, you're catching them sitting right? I don't think I could hit a rabbit on the run. And pheasant hunting with a bow sounds way too extreme for me! Cool stuff though :D

45 :coolgleamA:

He was moving, but not very fast. ;)
coopdog123
12-10-2007, 06:10 AM
i try to shoot them sitting
TheCream
12-10-2007, 07:35 AM
i try to shoot them sitting

That is ideal, but they do not always cooperate!
countyroad
12-10-2007, 07:40 AM
Nice shootn' Tex.:coolgleamA: I bet that's alot of fun. I've taken a few small game over the years, but I've also broke/lost a few arrows. :mad:
4 mile frontiersman
12-10-2007, 11:45 PM
Awesome shot man, pretty extreme there bowhunting rabbits. We have so few around here in Jackson County that we have resorted to using 22 LRs some. We are really careful and only shoot when we have a safe backdrop and we know exactly where everybody is at but it is challenging as well. Good luck the rest of the season.
hunter333
12-11-2007, 06:05 PM
Awesome trophy and good shot