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Can't watch it right now but is this the Air Force Survival method of swinging it between your legs?View attachment 519847
Maybe in theory but not really.
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Can't watch it right now but is this the Air Force Survival method of swinging it between your legs?View attachment 519847
Looks more like a Navy thing.Can't watch it right now but is this the Air Force Survival method of swinging it between your legs?View attachment 519847
I've been out several times and getting into hunting in general when you didn't grow up being taught is hands down the hardest skill I've tried to learn on my own.
They like "low country" with blackberry patches with grassy areas between the briar patches.
Hi,
I've never done any hunting before, but hopefully this weekend I want to get out and hunt rabbit. I've taken a basic hunter's ed course, but outside of that, I have no idea where to start.
My understanding is that in Oregon, most rabbits are unprotected game, except the white-tailed rabbit and pygmy.
Now I'm trying to fine somewhere to go hunt, and I'm finding it somewhat challenging to figure out which places are OK and which places aren't. Most of ODFW's website seems to be pointed toward the rules for big game and birds.
So I've been looking through the ODFW map just reading about different places and trying to figure it out, but it's pretty overwhelming.
EE Wilson Wildlife Area sounded like it would work, but it's shotguns only. (We will have a shotgun and a .22 to use.)
I think White River Wildlife Area is open for hunting still... but I guess my point is I really don't know where to start. If anyone has advice on the best way to get started I'd greatly appreciate it.
Hunter's Ed really laid down the rules and procedures for hunting, but I don't feel like it did enough to prepare me to actually go outside and start. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
That's not the intent of Hunter's Education.but I don't feel like it did enough to prepare me to actually go outside and start.
hardest thing I've tried to learn is sight reading music at age 45-66 (current) with no classroom training.
I've been thinking about doing the same and like you, have had no experience. Let me know how it goes for you.
I suggest you align yourself with someone who has outdoors and hunting experience and spend some time with this person in the field learning the basics as opposed to just heading out on your own in an unfamiliar area and no experience as you admitted.
I kind of agree with this. Those of us brought up with hunting mostly learned by experience. And only one way to gain experience. Of course hunting with an experienced person will get u over the learning curve a lot faster.Sometimes you've just gotta dive right in, or you'll never get around to it.
I would briefly study tularemia and also how to keep ticks off you (or just really watch for them). When I used to hunt rabbits I killed several jackrabbits with tumors, skin lesions, etc. and it always made me worry about tularemia but never confirmed any of them had it. It was in the same region as Hanford nuclear site so maybe it was due to that. Never saw any with three eyes though ha ha...
Cool. If ur after jackrabbits they will help make u a good shot for other animals. They are fast and fairly unpredictable.I might be in Portland right now, but I grew up in the country, so I'm more than familiar with basic outdoors skills like avoiding ticks. (I've plucked plenty of them off, too! Gross little things) But as for tularemia, I'm familiar with the basic "spotted liver" bit, and outside of that I'm hoping this cold weather has helped kill off any sick ones. It's been 10°-15° cooler out near Maupin/Redmond than here in Portland, so that's plenty chilly.
Throw them in a pack. Or hang em on stringer. Skin and gut at the car at the end of the day. They get a bit stiff after an hour or so, I find it helps skin them. Gut em there too, you could pack everything out if you want to and dispose of it, or just toss it into the surrounding areas for other parts of nature to eat. Throw hem on ice and head home.I have another question.
If I actually get a rabbit, what next? Do I
- skin and gut it immediately?
- or should I wait and try to get another rabbit or two and clean them all at once?
- if I skin and gut it immediately, do I then go back to the car and put it in the cooler before continuing to hunt?
- or do I carry the rabbit with me while we keep hunting for more of them?
When I clean them, what do I do with the fur and guts? Do I pack them out, or should I just leave the for coyotes?
Thanks for the advice, everyone.
Throw them in a pack. Or hang em on stringer. Skin and gut at the car at the end of the day. They get a bit stiff after an hour or so, I find it helps skin them. Gut em there too, you could pack everything out if you want to and dispose of it, or just toss it into the surrounding areas for other parts of nature to eat. Throw hem on ice and head home.
You can also keep a foot or two and have your own home made lucky rabbits foot!
As we speak, it's 30-degrees in Culver. The days this time of year don't get much higher than refrigerator temperature, so small animals will cool on their own.
That's almost like bagging your own human 'refuse' out to dispose of later.