Edited because I can't figure out how to post pictures off of the imgur app any more, can't find the forum code links anywhere. The pics aren't embedded, but if you click on them, they will pop up on imgur.com.
Well, if any of you are familiar with West Texas, especially the area in between San Angelo and Midland, you know about the abundance of rabbits and the decimation they do to farmers crops in the Concho Valley and the Permian Basin. Some guys in Glasscock County got fed up with losing so much cotton and decided to do something about it. Hence, the contest was created.
There were 66 teams that entered the contest, and the competition started at 3 p.m. on Saturday ending Sunday morning at 9 a.m. sharp. Teams had to be checked in by 9 with ALL members, or they were disqualified. This will come in to play later in my post.
Me and two buddies left Knickerbocker outside of San Angelo with a pretty bad hangover, heading to Midkiff, southeast of Midland, the property we hunted for the round-up, and met up with our last team mate. Got about halfway to Sterling City and the back right tire on the trailer blew out, not what you want to happen when you are already running late and hungover. Changed it and got back on the road.
Got to the ranch about ten minutes til three and got the mule ready to hunt, started hunting about 3:15. Two team mates used .22 cal cans and 10/22's. Myself and another teammate used lever action .22 Mag Winchester and had a 12 gauge with 7.5 shot on board as well. We ended up killing 801 rabbits total in 18 hours, but only had 792 when we showed up at the check-in, still good enough for putting Double S Bunny Busters in third place overall and a $1,300 prize. First place took down 1178 rabbits for a pretty good chunk of change, $8,300. The second place team killed 938 rabbits and won $3,200. There was a team that killed enough rabbits to win second place but a guy never showed up to check in with the rest of his teammates, so they were DQ'd, and we were bumped from 4th to 3Rd for the last hole of money.
I had an absolute blast helping out the farmers and ranchers in the area, while working on my marksmanship as well. Here are some pics from the marathon hunt.
Only 35 teams out of 66 turned in scorecards, and the total number of pests alleviated were still just shy of 16,000.
Well, if any of you are familiar with West Texas, especially the area in between San Angelo and Midland, you know about the abundance of rabbits and the decimation they do to farmers crops in the Concho Valley and the Permian Basin. Some guys in Glasscock County got fed up with losing so much cotton and decided to do something about it. Hence, the contest was created.
There were 66 teams that entered the contest, and the competition started at 3 p.m. on Saturday ending Sunday morning at 9 a.m. sharp. Teams had to be checked in by 9 with ALL members, or they were disqualified. This will come in to play later in my post.
Me and two buddies left Knickerbocker outside of San Angelo with a pretty bad hangover, heading to Midkiff, southeast of Midland, the property we hunted for the round-up, and met up with our last team mate. Got about halfway to Sterling City and the back right tire on the trailer blew out, not what you want to happen when you are already running late and hungover. Changed it and got back on the road.
Got to the ranch about ten minutes til three and got the mule ready to hunt, started hunting about 3:15. Two team mates used .22 cal cans and 10/22's. Myself and another teammate used lever action .22 Mag Winchester and had a 12 gauge with 7.5 shot on board as well. We ended up killing 801 rabbits total in 18 hours, but only had 792 when we showed up at the check-in, still good enough for putting Double S Bunny Busters in third place overall and a $1,300 prize. First place took down 1178 rabbits for a pretty good chunk of change, $8,300. The second place team killed 938 rabbits and won $3,200. There was a team that killed enough rabbits to win second place but a guy never showed up to check in with the rest of his teammates, so they were DQ'd, and we were bumped from 4th to 3Rd for the last hole of money.
I had an absolute blast helping out the farmers and ranchers in the area, while working on my marksmanship as well. Here are some pics from the marathon hunt.
Only 35 teams out of 66 turned in scorecards, and the total number of pests alleviated were still just shy of 16,000.