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Shot him less than 15 yards from a group of my grandfather's cows. Think he was eyeballing the 3 day old calf in the bunch.

small yote or big rifle?

Bad cell phone pic angle I imagine. He was good size for around here. We don't grow as big as they do out west and up north.

Didn't kill anything in '15 yet. Went out today, was a bit of a cold bish, wasn't bad till the wind started. Called one in, but he busted me and I didn't get a shot till he was waaay out. FWIW my son is in his great-grandfather's Woolrich's. By the time I got them the pants never fit, but I wore the jacket a great deal when I was younger. Pretty neat to see him out in them today.

Gruff, good luck in the next hunt.. Coyotes pretty scarce around this area, but the rabbits are pretty plentiful.. Have a good New Year, and lots of luck..

I don't have as many rabbits this year. But tonight I was in my jammies and needed another armload of wood. Have a couple mineral tubs of wood on the porch, and stepped out to grab some. A big ol' jack ran down the hill in front of the house. So I exchanged the wood for the Whore-gnat and slippers for pacs, and went back out. Fresh snow and a bright moon equals no spotlight needed. They run up the ditch about 100 yds and stopped. I popped the closer one using the deck post as a rest. The second silly bastid ran back to his buddy. Thee end.....

Blacktails???

yessir. I really miss the whitetails in NW CO and WYO.....sigh.

and the prairie dogs over here are different, too...

Thank you, same to you! Plenty of dogs around here this year seems anyways.

Are your PDs whitetails?


We've got whitetail jackrabbits and blacktail PDs up here...


The greenies are out to "save" the PDs...they're down to countless millions now....

Blacktail PD's on the plains. Whitetails on the western slope.

See his widdle bwack tayol?

actually got 3 last night. Never heard a thwack, and he run thru the trees. about 30 feet......found him on my way down to do chores this morning.

Last eve. I took a ride just before dark.. Drove into a ranchers haystack.. Had to shoot my way out.. CZ .22 mag. and 40gr. CCI HP..

Too me longer to post the picture on photophucket than it did to shoot the jacks and drive home..

Hahaha!

Awesome.




Travis

Is the foxfarm guy in Rawlins still around? He used to pay a buck apiece for frozen jacks.....

You guys ever ate jackrabbit? I was always told leave the jacks where they die and take the cotton tails home for the pot

My brother killed one last year, and was determined to eat it. We fried it up, and it wasn't terrible but it certainly wasn't as good as a cottontail.

In Eastern WA we liked to eat young jacks about the size of a cottontail or smaller. They were tender and tasty with a slight sage taste. Full grown jackrabbits were tough and tasted of sage so strongly we only tried eating one or two.

They were long legged, long eared critters that did not turn white in winter and looked like the ones huntsman22 is posting.

Is this a big year in rabbit cycle all over? There were the most snowshoe hares I've ever seen in the places where I hunted mule deer in the Interior of BC this Fall.