I was told there are a ton of jackrabbits in Wyoming- is this true?

We have a good population right now.

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.

Where bouts in Wyo? I'd make a trip over if wasn't too far. Wasn't hardly any north of Farson a year ago.

I'll pm you foxhunter

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.

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.

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.

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.

Shot A lot of them in Wyoming as a Kid

MJM, the jackrabbits turn white up there? I never knew that.

In Iowa also

The first hide I tanned was an Iowa jackrabbit the tanning solution was red and I ended up with a pink fur.

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.

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.

Learn something everyday. I never even knew there was a such thing as white-tailed jackrabbits. Cool critters.

My grandma would bone them out grind it, add pork fat, and make sausage. Its pretty good like that

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.

Osky