Re: Wyoming Jackrabbits
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From what I've seen of the great basin states is you can have a great population in one valley go over a little mountain range and with equally good habitat there's nothing, or next to. All depends on the year and at what point a population is at.
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Re: Wyoming Jackrabbits
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Don't know about WY but in Mn 70/80's, you could see 100s a day. Now, we gotta look HARD to see ONE. fun to shoot at.
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Re: Wyoming Jackrabbits
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Been seeing plenty north of Riverton to the base of the Owl Creek mountains and Shoshoni south to Jeffrey City This is the same area I've been seeing and catching plenty of Jack's.
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Re: Wyoming Jackrabbits
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Jack rabbits are the funnest things to shoot in the world spotlighting at night with .22 caliber ammo and such. My buddy used to clean them and grind them into hamburger meat. It tasted OK.
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Re: Wyoming Jackrabbits
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We shot them when they were white and the snow was gone. It made them easy to spot. I had half a dozen coming into the yard last winter and have not seen a track of one this winter. From what I have seen they peak and disappear.
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Re: Wyoming Jackrabbits
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We shot them when they were white and the snow was gone. It made them easy to spot. I had half a dozen coming into the yard last winter and have not seen a track of one this winter. From what I have seen they peak and disappear. This is what I see also.
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Re: Wyoming Jackrabbits
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We shot them when they were white and the snow was gone. It made them easy to spot. I had half a dozen coming into the yard last winter and have not seen a track of one this winter. From what I have seen they peak and disappear. MJM, the jackrabbits turn white up there? I never knew that.
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Re: Wyoming Jackrabbits
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We shot them when they were white and the snow was gone. It made them easy to spot. I had half a dozen coming into the yard last winter and have not seen a track of one this winter. From what I have seen they peak and disappear. MJM, the jackrabbits turn white up there? I never knew that. In Iowa also
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Re: Wyoming Jackrabbits
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HA! The first hide I ever pinned and salted was a cottontail. Caught him in a #2 longspring on a trail they were using coming from the woods to the garden. I had big plans thinking it would be a coyote. Hung that hide on my bedroom wall. I was proud of my first catch. Blind set.
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Re: Wyoming Jackrabbits
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MJM, the jackrabbits turn white up there? I never knew that. We have white tailed jack rabbits and hey turn white in the winter. They have black tips on their ears and some tan/brown hair mixed on their backs, but look white at a distance.
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Re: Wyoming Jackrabbits
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Learn something everyday. I never even knew there was a such thing as white-tailed jackrabbits. Cool critters.
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Re: Wyoming Jackrabbits
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My grandma would bone them out grind it, add pork fat, and make sausage. Its pretty good like that
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Re: Wyoming Jackrabbits
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There were a lot of areas in eastern Montana that had more than enough jacks 50 years ago, and now those same areas the folks tell me they haven’t seen any in many years. These are primarily range and grazing areas, still have bunnies, so I do not think ag spraying or soil disruption is much to blame. I too miss shooting at them.
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Re: Wyoming Jackrabbits
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My grandma would bone them out grind it, add pork fat, and make sausage. Its pretty good like that That's interesting danny. My dad told me stories of the big jackrabbit drives they would do when he was a kid. Grandma would make sausage from the rabbits and pork fat from there hogs they'd butchered. She came from an anabaptist community north of Salina ks. Ada ks.
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Re: Wyoming Jackrabbits
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are the ones that turn white really snowshoe hare?
or do all north American hare turn white if cold enough / day short enough
I shot 2 snowshoe this year in Clark county white on brown leaves I thought the first one was a large puff ball and that it was weird to have those so late early January so I went to look closer then it moved as I got closer and I could see it was a snowshoe hare
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Re: Wyoming Jackrabbits
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A snowshoe hare is only about half the size of a white-tailed jack. We have a few snowshoe hare here too. I don't think their areas overlap much. The snowshoe lives in the trees and brush. The white-tailed jack rabbit lives in the prairie / grasslands. I am pretty sure the antelope and black-tailed jack do not turn white.
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Re: Wyoming Jackrabbits
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A snowshoe hare is only about half the size of a white-tailed jack. We have a few snowshoe hare here too. I don't think their areas overlap much. The snowshoe lives in the trees and brush. The white-tailed jack rabbit lives in the prairie / grasslands. I am pretty sure the antelope and black-tailed jack do not turn white. thanks these were bigger than our cotton tail but not huge definitely in the woods , went looking for grouse and came home with hare
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Re: Wyoming Jackrabbits
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Whitetail Jack = Two feet long, including the three-to four inch "stub" tail. Weight: 6 to 10 pounds. Color: In summer, the jackrabbit is brown gray, with a white belly, feet, and tail. In winter, the fur changes to white, with somewhat darker ears. Snowshoe hares are somewhat larger than cottontail rabbits. They average around 18 to 20 inches (. 5 m) in total length and weigh 3 to 4 pounds (1.4–1.8 kg).
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