Rabbit Trap Yields Nothing, No Rabbit Stew Yet

Reader Contribution by Andrew Odom
Published on March 19, 2010
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My homesteading life rarely leads into the kitchen. Pan does most of the cooking and for good reason. She is amazing and is able to blend homemade with ‘good-for-you’ with delicious. Me? I am quite astute at mixing grill with darkened meat with edible. 

I must confess though that we are pretty well stuck in either “chicken mode” or “beef mode” with a bit of pork every so often. We rarely have fish as it is so hard to get fresh when you live in middle Georgia. Good deer meat is rare as well and we are pretty picky about who we accept it from since – it has been my experience – the taste is all in the cleaning and preparation. And game? Well, game is just beyond us. Until recently. 

While strolling along the Interwebs one rainy Saturday I came across a recipe for some hearty, rabbit stew. “Rabbit stew,” I asked myself? I had honestly thought that existed only in Elmer Fudd cartoons. But here was an easy to follow, delicious looking recipe for such. I decided we should try it. 

According to my family, rabbit had been a staple of my grandfather’s diet and so I figured I must have some predetermined qualities that would allow me to catch one of these oft-forgotten critters. I set about researching how to make a rabbit trap. I had seen rabbit droppings and foot prints in the orange clay so I knew they were prevalent in my area. 

I decided on a simple, wooden rabbit trap perfectly laid out by Dwayne’s This and That.

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