Scraps in the backwoods

• Gets down 'n' dirty
• Scraps in the sticks
• Struggles with, as a critter
• Struggles with, as a varmint
• Gets down and dirty with
• Tangles with, in the country
• Fights in the sticks
• Fights with, in the hills

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (en-third-person singular of: rassle)