Rabbit hunting dates back for centuries I suppose, but it is still fun to many East Texas hunters. We have two different types of rabbits in East Texas, the Cottontail and the Swamp Rabbit.

Abby Morin with her beagles, Finn and Daisy, and a snowshoe hare they harvested in Northern Maine. Credit: Courtesy of Abby Morin I never hunted rabbits — or more accurately, snowshoe hares — until I ...

THREE RIVERS AREA — Standing ankle deep in the blackwater bayou, I watch the swamp rabbit. I can hear, in the distance, two beagles hot on its track, but this bottomland creature seems unconcerned.

Dawn had yet to awaken in the eastern sky, but a half-dozen hunters from Moore County did not need either the sun or an alarm clock to get them up and going. After being hauled a long way from home in ...

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