Looks like rabbit season is over for me

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JohnL57

JohnL57

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Even though the season runs till Jan. 29 in California, the last doe rabbit I took had little ones developing, so I'm calling it quits for the season.
I'm seeing the rabbits pairing up and chasing each other around, pretty entertaining! Anyway, I had a good season with most of the rabbits I took in excellent condition. Here's a few pics of where I live & hunt:





Took this pic out my back door-(no, didn't shoot the bunny)



Rabbit in gravy over mashed taters
 
Can almost smell the foliage, memories from breaking brush in Camp Pendleton in the early 80's when a fella could still get a base hunting permit, providing he could produce a Map and Aerial Photo MCI Certificate, then he'd get a set of maps, a permanent permit, and a rules pamphlet. I lived in the range house (rifle range) and hunted when and where I liked so long as Mt. MF Range control cleared my travels. Those days are long gone, but looks as though you still prove what uncle Joe often said... the "West Still Lives" out west, if you know where to look.

Fast forward to 2012 and 2015, hunted Northern California once with my uncle before he passed, and once again on the latter trip after he departed this earth. He lived in Lookout CA in the Modoc Forest. If it weren't for my disdain of California politics I'd have moved my shop and be living on his old spread helping my aunt shovel snow and mending whatever required attention.

Thanks for sharing those pictures and sentiments. Brought back good memories.
 
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Beautiful country. I was a Calif native but for the politics and overcrowding I would probably still be there. If there was any place in Calif I would prefer to live it would be in the Buelton area, simply beautiful. I now live in Az and the hunting is terrific, the country is also beautiful but in a different way and I can hunt cottontails all year long. The cottontail has about two or three liters a year. I am surprised that you would stop after bagging a few with a liter. Not a good feeling but I do understand it. I would assume that whatever you take would certainly not affect the population and propagation of the species. Here in Az the season is open all year long. I have bagged rabbits with Tularemia, bot fly and worms. The F&G here says that the worms and bot fly larvae does not affect the meat but is distasteful to see when cleaning. I do not keep the ones that look odd and I hate to throw away all that great eating I always caution on the side of safety.
 
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