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Article: Rabbits & squirrels. (includes related article on guns) (Late Season Hunting) (Cover Story)
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- Sports Afield
- Article date:
- December 1, 1993
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Small-game hunting really heats up once winter's cold has settled across the landscape.
Small game," the name for the catch-all category into which we lump squirrels and rabbits, is, if not actually demeaning, certainly belittling (pardon the pun). True, rabbits and squirrels are small, but their size is deceiving: They play very big, as sportscasters like to say. Both possess major-league eyes and ears, and a hyperawareness of the knowledge that they are at the top of the menu for a frightening variety of predators. A cottontail juking through the brush or a squirrel skittering around a tree trunk can prove as elusive in its own right as the craftiest whitetail ...