My husband got a new job that moved us into town (hopefully not for much longer) and he's too busy with his predator control job now to really even think about rabbit hunting or come up with the time to dedicate to it. He already had coyote hunting/trapping on his mind but now it is literally all that is on his mind!! lol His focus as far as dogs go is more on his coyote hunting dog(s) for decoying, denning, tracking etc. Every now and again when we have them out in the country giving them some extra special exercise they'll find some rabbit scent or see a rabbit and get pretty riled up but they would still need lots of practice and training to be any good
I shook my head at them last time...talk about totally missing where the rabbit had just went 
Still fun to listen to them though 
We have also since gotten a Tri-Tronics system to use for training when we have all the dogs out
We all know how hounds can be at times! Although you can tell they understand the collars now...as soon as you put them on the dogs they all behave like little angels! lolMy husband's next system he'd like to get would be GPS collar
Especially with his 2 pups he has to start training this year!So I guess to sum this up...our beagles are just pan lickers! lol We still love the heck out of them though and they all get along well with our son...so that's a huge bonus to keeping them around!
