Have you ever heard a real life rabbit in distress?

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I did about a month ago. My son and I were dove hunting in Niland. As we were leaving the motel to start our hunting, a cat chased a rabbit up a tree.

YOU SHOULD HAVE HEARD THAT THING SCREAM!!!!!

The cat never even touched it. It was the loudest and most bone chilling thing you could imagine. It made some of my rabbit distress sounds sound like a day at Disneyland.

Amazing.
 
When I was 10 or 12 years old I kept rabbit boxes(traps) set during the winter. After trapping them and while
taking them out of the box they would scream whenever I would grab their hind legs to pull them out. Some would scream really loud for several minutes. I guess they were scared.
 
Only after stepping on one while playing Beagle for my Dad. I managed to pick it up by the scruff of his neck and boy it didn't like that very much. Needless to say, it tasted good.

If only I knew then what I know now.. That rabbit might be a superstar.
 
It was an tree with a thick trunk growing at angle (not straight up and down). The rabbit was a cottontail.
 
I've heard cottontails and jacks. Too bad we don't all have good recording devices with us at all times. Those rabbits and hares that really cut loose are the ones you want to tape.
 
Spent a lot of time hunting jacks in the dez while growing up, still like to chase them around. Unfortunately, every so often you hit one in a way that makes em start hollering...they can make a heck of a lot of noise.
 
I have heard it lots. We raised rabbits as a kid and they screamed a lot when you would pick the ones that hardly got handled they really let you have it. Also I have shot a couple with my ruger 10-22 that screamed a bit til I put another round into them.
 
Yup... hear it all the time. Definately helped my hand calling success when I was younger! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
Whacked one with my bow in the back yard a few years back, he was killing my young fruit trees. I hit him at about 35 yds with a bludgeon tip( big blunt )and penetrated clean through his side up to the fletches. He kept spinning around in circles like a pinwheel and screaming. It was a little embarrasing, my neighbors heard the noise and came running in time to see me monkey stomping this poor little bunny trying to finish him off /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smiliesmack.gif.
 
They scream long and loud, that's why I don't understand people calling quietly for a while. I've heard quite a few rabbits yell, but none quietly. Just my thoughts
 
Turkey scouting one morning I was walking across a bean field before daylight and I heard of in the distance not to far what sounded like growling and a rabbit screaming for its life. I figured it was a yote having breakfast it made the hair on my neck stand up!!! I was scouting and didnt have my shotgun with me!!!!!!
 
Heard one get caught by a fox early one morning just after climbing a tree for a bowhunt. You could track it by the sound as it was carried across a young cutover about 100 yards away. I was real glad I was up a tree 'cause it made my skin crawl.
 
I can relate with Arcorey, I had a rabbit eating all of my sweet peas, I did the same thing with my bow...What a god awful sound, put the boot to him to shut'em up...neighbors were getting suspicious /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif Until that I never heard one make that kind of sound.
 
In the wild I have only heard a few over the years. They are pre-programmed to only make noise if they are hopelessly in distress, and dying, and even then, I have watched coyotes catch them on open ground, get them in their jaws, thrash and kill them, all without a peep.

Rabbits in captivity are a different story.
 
I've heard many jackrabbits scream. I hunt jacks with salukis, whippets and greyhounds (Open Field Coursing) and young and inexperienced dogs will often bring 'em back alive before they learn how to make an instant kill. In organized hunting competition it is the handler's responsibility to dispatch the animal ASAP. A lot of women hunt with sighthounds and many are a bit squeamish about doing the deed but after the first season become pros at ending their misery. It's a high pitched chilling sound that sounds nothing like what's on my FX5.

Woodog
 
I've heard it twice, once when I was 12, (did almost exactly what ARCORY did, except mine was a field point and pinned it) and the second time was a juvenile cottontail, that my lab chased into a thorn patch and it got stuck.
 
I have been in the woods and heard barred owls calling and then the bunny blues........nature at it's best....suppers on the table.....SM
 


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