All jackalopes originated from Texas.The Big Bend area I believe.They have however spread across the southwest into New Mexico-Arizona-California-and even parts of Colorado-Montana and Wyoming.Their known for rapid breeding and must move to new feeding grounds or starve...thus their widespread movements from Texas.I've heard of a couple of sightings as far north as New York state but they have not been confirmed.A real trophy in anyone's book.Rick is correct as they are very delicious deep fried or butter fried.Happy Father's Day to all! powdr
I'll confirm what powder says. We used to have a lot of them on the upland praries here in East Texas. Remember them well from when I was a kid. Unfortunately the chupies, and other things, coming up from Mexico have pretty well thinned them out. Pretty rare to see one now.
Just when I had about decided this was a singularly pucker-tailed crowd, this comes a long. Westerner you should be standing about 11 feet tall by this point.
When my daughter was about five we ran across a great big one near Dubois, Wyoming. He was saddled and she not only wouldn't get on, she wouldn't even pet him. So seeing her reaction, I scratched them off the list of things to hunt and eat.
When my daughter was about five we ran across a great big one near Dubois, Wyoming. He was saddled and she not only wouldn't get on, she wouldn't even pet him. So seeing her reaction, I scratched them off the list of things to hunt and eat.
As a matter of fact, Dubois is famous for the amount and size of the jackalope population. I pass through there every year when I hunt in Wyo, and there are certainly a lot of trophies on the walls of gas stations, restaurants etc. as proof of this. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
If Idaho F&G would get their act straight, maybe we would have a decent buck jackalope population. Of course, they are just in it for the money, and they keep selling tags, even though I haven't seen a buck in years.
I suppose I'll have to go and buy an out-of-state license in Wyoming one of these days to get a decent one. Burns me up..... JMO, DUtch.
Could this be the one you were talking about? You can't make the book with the Wyoming subspecies unless you can get a saddle on it. This one was killed by Bigfoot and resides in a gas station near Dubois.
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I seem to remember reading that the male has been known to give a plaintive mating call during full moons late at night. It is said that the sound is similar to a young boy singing.
Great link on the first discovers of the Jackalope:
I used to work with a black gentleman that swore he had been attacked by a jackalope while in New Mexico. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />
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The Wyoming subspecies has definitely innerbred with a larger Jack. As all of you know the TEXAS species is much smaller. I must reiterate what Dutch said as bucks are very rare and only seen occasionally in their home range.I don't think it will be long till they are placed on the endangered list. powdr
powdr, I don't know if it is interbreeding with a larger Jack or not. They are bigger though and I kind of think it is the thinner air that they breathe up there in Wyoming. It lets them expand more, don't you know.
Actually they are a cross between the Jack Rabbit and the Muntjac. You can tell by looking at their canine teeth. Most folks do not know they have canine teeth.
That is what they use to kill rattlesnakes with. They are generally vegetarian except they do favor rattlesnakes, and that is what makes them such a beneficial animal.
Jackalopes, especially the ones that migrated east to Ohio, DO taste kinda like chicken... with a little quail-taste added for extra-special flavor.
Here in Ohio, they've eaten up 'most all the eastern diamond-back rattlers and are in the midst of switching to the deadly garter snakes, the occasional copperhead & the few eastern diamond-backs that still exist in Ohio.
The male jackalopes are begining to become a "problem. I heard that a jogger was attacked by a "jackalope" last month and suffered some pretty serious scratches about the ankle on one leg and shins on both legs.
I understand that a firearms manufacturer localed in New England is developing a new, smaller varmint cartridge especially for hunting the jackalope. It has a 9 caliber bullet weighing 6 grains at a muzzle velocity of 7,000 fps... one of the few bullets fast enough to "catch" a speedy jackalope in full stride.
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