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I know you know why the predators are killed

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Mostly because that is what people have always done. Now that we have science showing it is counterproductive, educated people favor letting the predators balance the pests...people who prefer to stick to the old ways keep having the same old problems...

Ladies, ladies, didn't want this thread to become a positive/negative points on predator hunting/snake killing discussion. I see and hear both sides of yalls argument and my feelings on this topic fall somewhere in the middle of your two stances. Agree to disagree and move on.

Just for the record I have never shot a coyote

Have some friends who are interested in doing this next year. They are equipped with suppressors, thermal and night vision. Who should they contact to gain access to some property to hunt?

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do y'all know of anyone who offers jack rabbit hunts from helicopters with high powered automatic weapons?

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I'd prefer to hunt over high fence rabbits of possible.

Sounds like an absolute blast

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do y'all know of anyone who offers jack rabbit hunts from helicopters with high powered automatic weapons?

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I'd prefer to hunt over high fence rabbits of possible.

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Chicken wire is what is actually used for rabbits

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Have some friends who are interested in doing this next year. They are equipped with suppressors, thermal and night vision. Who should they contact to gain access to some property to hunt?

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You know anybody that owns land in these counties? Ask them. Otherwise, I don't really see much of a way to hunt it unless you or your friends are just a hell of a talker. I know I would have reservations about complete strangers showing up from across the state to randomly ask me to hunt my land for a rabbit contest.

It said in the rules that teams were responsible for procuring their own land to hunt. If land wasn't owned by a team member, all members must have permission to be on said land.

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Have some friends who are interested in doing this next year. They are equipped with suppressors, thermal and night vision. Who should they contact to gain access to some property to hunt?

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You know anybody that owns land in these counties? Ask them. Otherwise, I don't really see much of a way to hunt it unless you or your friends are just a hell of a talker. I know I would have reservations about complete strangers showing up from across the state to randomly ask me to hunt my land for a rabbit contest.

It said in the rules that teams were responsible for procuring their own land to hunt. If land wasn't owned by a team member, all members must have permission to be on said land.

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We live in Houston area so we don't have contacts out your way. I was hoping there might be some Aggie farmers that would be interested in talking to us about varmint control on their place.
Thanks

There are a mix of Ags and raiders out that way, not saying it's impossible to get permission by any means, but it won't be easy. Hope you can find someone to give you the okay, because it was so damn fun.

I picture most resident OB members as clean, courteous, professional people, so if you approach someone in the correct manner, and have a good pitch, I can see someone going for it. All of the people I know to ask, already had family hunting their land.

Thanks. I will check with our soil conservation agent for our place in South Texas to see if he has any contacts because he is from that area.

I've never shot so much in my life, it was a lot of fun. We ended up with a little over 400, about 1/2 jacks and 1/2 cottontails. I had no clue how many it would take to win going into this deal, mainly because I'm not very familiar with that country. But after killing 200+ before dark I figured out it would take a bunch!
We ran a 4 inch poly line that was sticking out of the ground through the front fender of our ranger right after dark that broke the steering/tie rod and rendered it useless. We ended up having to hunt out of the pickup the entire night which really ruined the amount of rabbits we could get killed. It was still a blast and was a dang sure a good way to sharpen your marksmanship skills. Lookin forward to next year!

Well at least you didn't shoot one of those flow lines

Ya no kidding, we used shotguns 90% of the time mainly because the ranch we hunted was covered in wells. And we figured bird shot was the least likely to put a hole in anything.

This thread makes me warm and fuzzy.

any idea what yalls shots/rabbit ratio was?

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One of my teammates shot a flowline. Glad it was the guy that owned the place and not me.

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We also hit one with some heavier turkey load. Luckily it was a salt water line.

Ya i was hunting with the land owners son, so he was pretty reckless. We were jumping poly lines in the ranger like it was an offroad video.

With the shotguns I bet we killed 95% of what we shot at. Granted they were all shots within 30 yards. I missed prolly 2 or 3 out of 20+ with the .22 and I shot prolly 10 or 12 at 100 +or- yards with my AR more out of boredom than necessity.
They were absolutely everywhere, you could kill 2 or 3 on the ground everytime you got out to get one.

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We also hit one with some heavier turkey load. Luckily it was a salt water line.

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Environmental issue!

This looks more fun than dove hunting in Mexico.

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One of my teammates shot a flowline. Glad it was the guy that owned the place and not me.

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We also hit one with some heavier turkey load. Luckily it was a salt water line.

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Environmental issue!

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Reported to the proper authorities and repaired. Just doing our part to keep the oilfield hands employed

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Killing my LOE, smalls!

Took my 10 year old out rabbit hunting last night along with my neighbor and his 10 year old son. We hunted from 9:30 until 1/00 a.m. Easily killed over a hundred with kids doing most of the shooting. My buddy laughed. We circled a piece of property and it looked like we never shot anything when we made it back around to where we had started. You could have started over and done it again but way to late for the boys. My son did most of his shooting with a 20 gauge. He went through 3 1/2 boxes. His friend shot a .22. We also brought a 22-250 and a .204 for some distance shots for myself and neighbor. Great fun.

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As he was laughing - "City kids just don't know what they're missing."

I've had jack rabbits wipe some corn out near crp and had to eradicate. Used to never worry about it until the coyotes got wiped out by mange. Once coyotes disappeared the rabbit population went crazy.

18 hours and 800 rabbits is about 45 rabbits and hour.

This is the kind of hunting I would want to do. Just shoot and kill until you are tired. But it would be like football two a days when you run till coach gets tired.

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18 hours and 800 rabbits is about 45 rabbits and hour.

This is the kind of hunting I would want to do. Just shoot and kill until you are tired. But it would be like football two a days when you run till coach gets tired.

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The rabbit hunting is fun, shoot until you are tired.

The contest makes you go past that to the verge of no fun.
Unless you win

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Took my 10 year old out rabbit hunting last night along with my neighbor and his 10 year old son. We hunted from 9:30 until 1/00 a.m. Easily killed over a hundred with kids doing most of the shooting. My buddy laughed. We circled a piece of property and it looked like we never shot anything when we made it back around to where we had started. You could have started over and done it again but way to late for the boys. My son did most of his shooting with a 20 gauge. He went through 3 1/2 boxes. His friend shot a .22. We also brought a 22-250 and a .204 for some distance shots for myself and neighbor. Great fun.

Quote of the trip (from my neighbor):

As he was laughing - "City kids just don't know what they're missing."

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I first read that as you have a 10 year old rabbit that you took hunting.

Dirty, thats badass! Let me know if yall are going back next year or any time and need another person. I'll bring the suppressed Benelli M1.

Sorry to dig up an old thread, but Holy Crap! That's a mess of rabbits!!
Would any of you guys that own property be willing to let an out of town falconer chase some rabbits with his hawks? I'm from just outside of Atlanta, Ga. I'm planning a trip to y'all's area in a couple of weeks, in hopes of going after jacks and bunnies with my birds. We just walk around with the hawks and try to jump rabbits, and let the Hawks chase and catch em. NO firearms involved.

Can you guys tell me how willing most of the landowners are out that way, to let people hunt their land? I'm only interested in jacks and bunnies, nothing else. I'm responsible, extremely respectful of other's property, and as I said above, don't use firearms.

@Dirty-8-thirtyAg. Where in Midkiff did y'all hunt, and on who's land. I'm from there and my family farms 12 sections of land and we let a group from Midland come hunt our land as I was still in High School at the time and busy. We also get people asking us about hunting and stuff all the time and usually allow access (except for deer hunting). We just don't pay anyone to go hunting.

I don't remember exactly where the place was. It isn't far from the Pioneer Field office in Midkiff. The ranch is called the "SS Midkiff". A family from Odessa owns the place.