I've killed and eaten several thousand cottontail rabbits in my life. They are good fried, scalloped or in a casserole. They don't taste like chicken, they're better. Wild cottontails taste alot different than pen raised domestic. The wild ones are much more flavorful and better than pen raised by far. I'd need to be pretty desperate and hungry to eat another pen raised rabbit.
Blackheart,
AGREED 100%. = My favorite is young swamp rabbits, that are VERY NUMEROUS in my home area up in NE Texas. = For example, my 1st cousin & I took 56 of them in one late fall evening with a .22LR & my .410 pump, some years ago on the family farm.
My uncle was cutting them up, dredging them in flavored flour, pan frying them, making "scratch" biscuits & white/cream gravy for supper, as soon as we had dressed a dish-pan full.
(All 2 of us, plus a of neighbors, who just "dropped in" & helped themselves, made PIGS of ourselves that night. = A good time was had by all.) .
yours, tex
