Back in the Briars

Finally back in the woods. Last Saturday, we worked at the football field on renovation projects (actually a little to hot to run the dogs, so it worked out). The weather around here has been up and down and lots of rain. Hogie, Randy and I had an oppurtunity to go to a new location that had lots of rabbit signs and rabbits. Randy brought his 1912 double barrel 20 guage and put it to good use. Less than 3 minutes after the tailgate was dropped, the dogs jumped and were hot on the bunny. Hogie took the first rabbit of the day. We worked the dogs back up to the top of the hill. Within no time, the dogs were back in action. They took the rabbit around a large pond. I was standing on the dam and Randy was above me, the rabbit went between us. Randy cleared me and was able to take a shot with his nice 20 guage. The rabbit did not go down, where it was shot. The dogs came by, hot on the track, and went about 50 yards and shut down. The next thing we see is Hank with the rabbit in his mouth, bringing it back to us. The third race started at 10:30, the dogs jumped a large cane cutter (the rabbit with 8 lives). Hogie took 3 shots the first time it came by, dogs made another big circle...Hogie took another 4 shots. Needless to say, the rabbit out smarted us all today. The race finally ended at 12pm. The rabbit lived to see another day.  We were very pleased with all of our dogs today, 2 rabbits down. My dad joined us for the celebration.