Best time to get rabbits?

[Vectra26]

So when do you find is the best time to bag rabbits? I hear mixed thoughts, some like dawn, some night. Just wondering what yours is?

[shadow mag]

i start aroud 6pm and go on untill it gets dark then call it aday. never take less than 30 a night have not started lamping yet normally wait for the evenings to pull in a bit.

[Frenchieboy]

I personally prefer late evening at this time of the year (I'm not a morning person),but definitely lamping when the nights start to draw in earlier (Around mid to late September onwards). I find it much more productive on the lamp with a moderated .22LR fitted with a 3-9 X 50 scope and a scope mounted lamp with red filter, especially if you make a point of not over shooting the land!

Edited August 1, 2009 by Frenchieboy

[Bleeh]

It honestly depends on the time that the rabbits are disturbed most.

 

You'll find rabbits will change there habbits depending on what is going around them . Think what time the rabbits are being disturbed and it's the least likely time they'll be out.

[shotgun666]

AROUND HERE ITS ROUGHLY 6-9.45PM,,,THATS THE BEST TIME ,,,,AND THAT IS WHEN IVE SEEN THE MOST ACTIVITY

[sapper063]

mines usually 6pm onwards tried in a morning but my shoots in a valley and covered with mist

[DustyIrl]

I go out in the evening time around 6, 6.30ish on a nice sunny evening and talk a stroll around. I find on in the evenings they do be sunning themselves when the sun isnt so hot.

[jay222]

i find dawn more productive but tend to shoot more in the evening due to work/sleep commitments

[MerseaDavid]

8pm - 11 pm are the times i normally go out and that is when most of my rabits come out to play

[scout]

Bout 6.30 til 9:30 at the mo, then in a month will start lamping a bit more and shoot happily out til midnight.

[magman]

i find dawn more productive but tend to shoot more in the evening due to work/sleep commitments

 

[Tis1979]

i start aroud 6pm and go on untill it gets dark then call it aday. never take less than 30 a night have not started lamping yet normally wait for the evenings to pull in a bit.

Hi mate what rifle are you shooting with? Regards Tis

[scarr62]

Back to best time for bunnies at this time of year.

[COACH]

11.00pm TILL 1.00am for me

[colombacci]

interesting question,

 

one shoot in godstone my pal and i go to semi regularly the rabbits are early morning, between about 5am and 8am and weirdly 2pm in the afternoon we always start seeing more. I read an interesting chapter in a book on wild rabbits, which stated that you can force the rabbits to be out when you want them to be. within reason. so it went like this, if you want day time active rabbits, you hammer them at all hours of the night and leave well alone in the day, and vice versa. I have never tried it but would be really interested in seeing if it worked to some obvious level.

 

Any one with any experience of this activity control.

 

G

[Paddy Galore!]

On my main permission the bunnies are out all day. the area is a mixed bag of hay meadow, water meadow, woodland, and sugarbeet.

When i first met the land owner and had a walk round we were literally tripping over the damn things, this was about 5pm on a summer afternoon. With such a varied area of land i found it quite easy to shoot a few in one area, then walk along and catch a few more and so on and so on until i'd usually had enough after about 4-5 hrs. If the bunnies were in short supply there were always crows and pigeon to take care of, also some fox although i was asked to leave them as they help with the bunnies. I cant wait for the rabbit population to pick up again so i can get back there soon. I could do with another permission like this one so it would keep me busy all year.

[robkmx]

on my permission you dont see 1 in the day then at dusk the odd 1 starts comeing out. but ive found them most active in the middle of the night 12 till 6

[richie223]

between 7&11.30 at night.there seems to be more going on at these times wher i shoot