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Better Rabbit trap for those with rabbit problems
I have young trees and every winter the rabbits manage to harm many of
those trees, especially fir and cherry. Funny how they never bother to eat currants. In the summertime I use a high powered BB rifle. Which works great because the rabbits think nothing is going on and do not run whilst I pump up the rifle for the next shot. Trouble with a BB is that it takes about 10 penetrations to put the rabbit down. Some days I would shot about 3 or 4 rabbits via BB. I hate other rifles because of the *lead* that ends up in the soil. So I use only BB. I wish the manufacturers would make a Copper Pellet rifle instead of Lead Pellet. In the recent snowstorm I have figured out a way of clearing out perhaps 1/2 or more of the rabbit population all in one fell swoop. I notice that the rabbits dig themselves out of the snow with 2 tunnel entrances. I notice that some rabbits have made concrete blocks with their holes as a home. Years ago I noticed that rabbits in winter in heavy snow love to eat elm bark from limbs sawed down in winter. So I used elm limbs as bait and at night time would shot rabbits with BBs eating at the elm bark bait. New Trap: what I plan to do is to get out a 8 foot section of that drain pipe whose diameter is just able to fit into a concrete block hole where some rabbits have made their home. So I block off the one end and I stuff the other end with this drain pipe and I thence force the rabbit to begin to enter into the plastic drain pipe which I have a wire in the end to prevent the rabbit from escaping. So as the rabbit begins to enter the plastic it is unable to turnaround. So, what I do to get the rabbit population under a decent control is to find where they have made a home, and look for the 2 entrances borroughed out of the snow. Stick the plastic pipe into one end and run a wire into the other forcing the rabbit to enter the pipe. I have not tested the above yet, but am anxious to test it out today. Will report back as to success or progress or setbacks. If it works well, then next summer I plan to take about 5 block whereever I see a rabbit scamper off and align them for the rabbit to make those blocks its home and one day when I see a rabbit make it a home I will get out the plastic pipe and capture the rabbit. It sure will beat the time spent on BB hunting them. Archimedes Plutonium whole entire Universe is just one big atom where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies |
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Better Rabbit trap for those with rabbit problems
You're putting a lot more time into hunting and trapping rabbits than you might have spent putting chicken wire around the trees you want to protect. Chicken wire would do a better job, too, as you'll never run out of rabbits. -- "We don't grow up hearing stories around the camp fire anymore about cultural figures. Instead we get them from books, TV or movies, so the characters that today provide us a common language are corporate creatures" -- Rebecca Tushnet |
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Better Rabbit trap for those with rabbit problems
Belay my last. Belay the entire previous post about Rabbit trap. I
found out today that this hole in the snow did not have any rabbit, so I cannot be sure that rabbits shelter below snow tunnelling to their hiding places. I further went along the grounds where I had seen many rabbits in the summer find shelter thinking that there would be tunnels in the snow for rabbits. There were none. In the woodpiles where rabbits love to hide had no tunnels in the snow either. So I guess rabbits when there is huge snowdrifts they simply shelter behind trees and are exposed in the open. Some hide underneath the branches of spruce trees. And they love trailers which are open underneath. So I am back with the old proven method of baiting them with branches of elm trees strewn near the house and with a floodlight, I shoot them with a BB rifle. Trouble is that it takes several BBs to bring a rabbit down. But whether the winter cold may require just one BB, I do not know. I have Prunus tomentosa, or bush cherries and they really do an awful number on bush cherries. One thing good about rabbits is that if in the future, all meats are not good to eat due to various reasons, or whether we have another Great Depression. Those that can stomach to eating rabbit will not starve. Archimedes Plutonium whole entire Universe is just one big atom where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies |
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Better Rabbit trap for those with rabbit problems
(Gregory L. Hansen) wrote in message ...
You're putting a lot more time into hunting and trapping rabbits than you might have spent putting chicken wire around the trees you want to protect. Chicken wire would do a better job, too, as you'll never run out of rabbits. Not really. Try putting chicken wire around a thousand or more trees. And most small trees have side branches. BB rifles work better in winter in that one shot can bring a rabbit down. Got 2 the other night. I am thinking of a newer method. I bought a halogen spot light and am thinking that like deer they can be mesmerized. So I have a new angle on the problem. Archimedes Plutonium whole entire Universe is just one big atom where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies (www.iw.net/~a_plutonium) website of the science of AP under revision |
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Better Rabbit trap for those with rabbit problems
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Archimedes Plutonium wrote: (Gregory L. Hansen) wrote in message ... You're putting a lot more time into hunting and trapping rabbits than you might have spent putting chicken wire around the trees you want to protect. Chicken wire would do a better job, too, as you'll never run out of rabbits. Not really. Try putting chicken wire around a thousand or more trees. And most small trees have side branches. BB rifles work better in winter in that one shot can bring a rabbit down. Got 2 the other night. I am thinking of a newer method. I bought a halogen spot light and am thinking that like deer they can be mesmerized. So I have a new angle on the problem. Archimedes Plutonium whole entire Universe is just one big atom where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies (www.iw.net/~a_plutonium) website of the science of AP under revision http://www.nysaes.cornell.edu/pubs/press/foxes.html -- "There's nary an animal alive that can outrun a greased Scottsman!" -- Groundskeeper Willy |
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Better Rabbit trap for those with rabbit problems
Try putting chicken wire around a thousand or more trees. BRBR
It sounds as if you have more of an ecology problem. Since you are out in the country, you need to encourage predators, such as owls & hawks. You might also try removing surrounding underbrush. Your local agricultural agent might be helpful. Iris, Central NY, Zone 5a, Sunset Zone 40 "If we see light at the end of the tunnel, It's the light of the oncoming train." Robert Lowell (1917-1977) |
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