Jack Rabbit or Cottontail

[3forks]

Jesus, dude. You were going to let a wounded animal scream in pain and you thought it was cool?

 

[TheGDog]

I said it was a brief thought. Besides... how do you think they get those recordings, Hmm?

 

[Rich M]

What elevation? Could be a snowshoe hare.

That's a jack. The snowshoes don't have ears like that. The ears are stubbier on a snowshoe.

Grew up hunting snow shoes and cotton tails. Lots of fun times.

 

[willy]

Adult whitetail jacks are way bigger than blacktails, just a fyi, nothing really to add to the id of it. When I was a kid my grandpa and I would hunt rabbits. I lived in an area where cottontails, white, and blacktail jacks lived. We would make sausage out of them as well as eat them as individual meals.

 

[MeatBuck]

What happened to identifying your target before pulling the trigger?

I bet this thread would have a different theme had that been a deer and you asked what kind it was...

 

[Hootsma]

Here’s a west Tennessee swamp cotton tail. The thing that stuck out to me is the significant difference in size of the back feet between the OP and mine.

 

[Conroy]

What happened to identifying your target before pulling the trigger?

I bet this thread would have a different theme had that been a deer and you asked what kind it was...

Probably because all rabbit and hares are open for hunting September 1. He could shoot any rabbit, but was just clarifying what kind it was. No legal or moral issues.

 

[grfox92]

What happened to identifying your target before pulling the trigger?

I bet this thread would have a different theme had that been a deer and you asked what kind it was...

Well being that it was indeed a rabbit and I can shoot 2 Jack's and 10 Cottontails a day, and I was in fact Rabbit hunting, I'm not really sure why that would matter.....

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[grfox92]

Probably because all rabbit and hares are open for hunting September 1. He could shoot any rabbit, but was just clarifying what kind it was. No legal or moral issues.

Thanks.

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[grfox92]

Here’s a west Tennessee swamp cotton tail. The thing that stuck out to me is the significant difference in size of the back feet between the OP and mine.

I've killed tons of eastern Cottontails. But even the Cottontails out here don't look like the easterns I'm used too.

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[Conroy]

Nah, not true, it is illegal to take Pygmys. And if the OP is whalin on lagomorphs before identifying them, what happens when a protected species pops up?

You are correct. I did not consider Pygmy Rabbits. Thank you for pointing that out.

 

[2ski]

Did it run away or did it hop away? Cottontails hop. Jackrabbits kind of seem more of a run. If it was a snowshoe hair, I think you would see a little change in color on part of it. But I don't hunt wabbits so I could be wrong.

 

[grfox92]

Nah, not true, it is illegal to take Pygmys. And if the OP is whalin on lagomorphs before identifying them, what happens when a protected species pops up?

Pigmys don't inhabit my area at all.

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[Huntindog45]

someone had to do it....

 

[2ski]

 

[MTSasquatch]

This thread has me buttering popcorn.

 

[ShawZaw]

Whitetail jackrabbit, but I really like the idea of a whitetail doe jackalope, very elusive critters.

 

[Catchfish]

What color was the meat, was it red or more of a white meat.

 

[Conroy]

I was curious though, you never said what the inside spread was on the ears? Was one of them at least 3" or longer?

 

[jmez]

Looks like a young jackrabbit.

I saw a lot of snowshoes this last week, all of them the feet were white. Starting to turn.