Scraps in the sticks

• Fights with, in the hills
• Struggles with, as a critter
• Goes at it, so to speak
• Grapples with, slangily
• Fights in the sticks
• Grapples with, as a critter
• Scraps in the backwoods
• Gets down and dirty with
• Tangles with, in the country

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