.50 cal small game hunting?

brazosland said:

Funny, every trip to Colorado we always see tracks everywhere in the snow. Don’t know that I have ever seen a live one.

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Seeing snowshoe hares can be challenging. You can look right at them and not realize it. I've learned a lot through trial and error over the years hunting both snowshoe hares and cottontails. I wrote an article that was published in the Mar/Apr '20 issue of The Backwoodsman magazine with tips on hunting them.

At the same time I submitted that article (August 2019), I submitted a second article on hunting small game with big bore muzzleloaders. I pointed out the benefits of the added woods time with your "big game" rifle among other things. So far that article has not been published.

Here's a snowshoe I recently hunted with a camera.

I just saw The Backwoodsman on the magazine rack at the grocery store last week. Been a while since I had seen it. Subscribed at one time, but it never had enough of the stuff I was interested in for me to stay with it.

Now I am hungry for rabbit...

brazosland said:

I just saw The Backwoodsman on the magazine rack at the grocery store last week. Been a while since I had seen it. Subscribed at one time, but it never had enough of the stuff I was interested in for me to stay with it.

Now I am hungry for rabbit...

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On another forum several members were discussing how the magazine has gone downhill over the years. One member challenged us to submit articles in an attempt to improve its content. So far I have not been impressed with how the magazine operates.

I submitted two articles in August 2019. I never received a reply from them (nor did any of the other contributors that accepted the challenge). So far one of my submissions has been printed, as I mentioned above, in the Mar/Apr 2020 issue. According to their submission guidelines they will give you a subscription if they print your article.

To this day they have not contacted me. I really don't care about the subscription. I'm just disappointed in their absolute lack of communication. If I ever decide to write another article The Backwoodsman would be the last magazine I would submit it to.

Sorry for the rant.

Pab1...you did the right thing.

OP...I apologize for derailing your thread. Please carry on with discussing the smiting of small critters with cannon balls.

Hunting for snowshoes or cottontails, look for the eyes if they ain't running.

mushka said:

Hunting for snowshoes or cottontails, look for the eyes if they ain't running.

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Gotta watch the law wherever you hunt small game .40 cal is the biggest you can use in Pennsylvania. Unless your using a smooth bore with shot. BJH