Goes at it, so to speak

• Gits in a scrap (with)
• Grapples with, as a critter
• Struggles with, as a varmint
• Fights with, in the hills
• Grapples, in the sticks
• Fights in the sticks
• Gets down 'n' dirty
• Scraps in the sticks
• Scraps in the backwoods

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