They ran for miles. I stayed where the dogs jumped the rabbit, and sure enough, it circled back and I shot it.” Field trials are popular among members of the Eldred Beagle Club.

This year, the intrepid rabbit hunters decided to improve their chances of success by upgrading their rabbit dogs. They purchased two beagle puppies.

Let the dogs have their fun. After all, that’s the point of turning out 14 finely tuned beagles with a single thing on their minds-finding every rabbit on this patch of the planet.

The dogs are the real stars of a rabbit hunt. Gladdish's big beagle Boudreaux led this pack. Wesley Neal, who trains rabbit beagles, enlisted a bunch of his dogs.

Methodist pastor Bob Ford, nicknamed the Beagle Bard for his fondness for writing about his hounds, has a stature reminiscent of his days as a tight-end playing college footabll and a beard suggestive ...

This can get a rabbit to circle just as it would if it was being chased by dogs. Most hunters use a shotgun for rabbit hunting, with 12- and 20-gauge being the most common.