GKOUXD GAME SHOOT/NO (PART /) 383 



HOW TO BOLT RABBITS 



There are three methods of doing this. 



1st. By the use of ferrets. 



2nd. By means of a fuse to what is vulgarly called 

 * smell them out,' and then paper soaked in a strong- 

 smelling liquid to prevent their return to ground. 



3rd. By digging out the burrows. 



There is no difficulty in turning the rabbits above 

 ground ihejrst time in the season you attack them, 

 a- they are at that time mostly young and therefore 



v alarmed. The trouble is to induce them to 

 remain above ground till the intended day's shooting 

 takes place, and if, as I have said, you have no cover 

 in the open to protect them from the weather, you 

 may give the affair up as hopeless, for if shelter is 

 scarce, one day or night of wet may entirely spoil all 

 prospect of sport by sending your rabbits home to 

 their burrows the night before the day you propose to 

 shoot them. 



If you have only a small number of rabbits to turn 

 out, there is no method so certain of success as 

 running ferrets through the burrows. If you, how- 

 pect to kill a good many rabbits, the manage- 

 ment of the ferrets will occupy too much time, for 

 by burning fuse, and using paper saturated in a 

 liquid as presently described, one man can work as 



