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My buddy from Vermont #8315692
01/18/25 03:50 PM
01/18/25 03:50 PM
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Northern Maine
Bruce T Offline OP
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Him and his wife shot a black hare today in front of their beagles
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Last edited by Bruce T; 01/18/25 08:31 PM.

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Re: My buddy from Vermont [Re: Bruce T] #8315707
01/18/25 04:10 PM
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That is pretty good. I remember as a young guy hunt snow hare and they were so plentiful. Now don't see to many but have cottontails and a lot of them.


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Re: My buddy from Vermont [Re: Bruce T] #8315726
01/18/25 04:40 PM
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That's pretty cool, I wonder how rare that is.....

Re: My buddy from Vermont [Re: Bruce T] #8315744
01/18/25 04:58 PM
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Cool, always heard of them but never saw one in the wild.

Re: My buddy from Vermont [Re: Bruce T] #8315745
01/18/25 05:00 PM
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I bet it stood out like a turd in the punch bowl in that snow.


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Re: My buddy from Vermont [Re: Bruce T] #8315748
01/18/25 05:06 PM
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Only ever seen of two shot here in Maine in my lifetime.


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Re: My buddy from Vermont [Re: Bruce T] #8315764
01/18/25 05:31 PM
01/18/25 05:31 PM
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We used to have (white-tailed) jackrabbits around here but few and seldom nowadays. Our land grant university's teams are called the "Jackrabbits."

It is a hare, with dark, strong (I think) meat compared to a cottontail rabbit with "white meat." We used to shoot the jacks in various ways, including center-fire rifles. I ate a few of them but it was a struggle compared to say pheasant or cottontail. I guess I wasn't hungry enough at that point to really enjoy those prairie hares.

They cycled down after about 1983 around here and have never made a comeback. I think I've seen maybe less than 5 in my county in the last 20 years.


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Re: My buddy from Vermont [Re: Bruce T] #8315794
01/18/25 06:08 PM
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cool thanks for sharing, never ever heard of one before,

Re: My buddy from Vermont [Re: Bruce T] #8315805
01/18/25 06:22 PM
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^^^^^
Never heard of them either!
Nice post!


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Re: My buddy from Vermont [Re: Bruce T] #8315812
01/18/25 06:31 PM
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Nice kill

Re: My buddy from Vermont [Re: Bruce T] #8315825
01/18/25 06:42 PM
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In the book "Watership Down" that could be The Black Rabbit of Inlé, also known as Inlé-rah ("Prince/Chief of the Moon" or "Prince/Chief of the Dead).

Keith

Re: My buddy from Vermont [Re: Crappiekiller] #8316093
01/18/25 09:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Crappiekiller
I bet it stood out like a turd in the punch bowl in that snow.


Exactly what I was thinking! Crazy Wabbit!

Re: My buddy from Vermont [Re: Bruce T] #8316098
01/18/25 09:08 PM
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meat rabbits come in all colours maybe it was a feral meat rabbit.


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Re: My buddy from Vermont [Re: Boco] #8316133
01/18/25 09:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Boco
meat rabbits come in all colours maybe it was a feral meat rabbit.

nope.A rare color variation of a snowshoe rare.Very rare.


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Re: My buddy from Vermont [Re: NonPCfed] #8316200
01/18/25 10:34 PM
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Originally Posted by NonPCfed
We used to have (white-tailed) jackrabbits around here but few and seldom nowadays. Our land grant university's teams are called the "Jackrabbits."

It is a hare, with dark, strong (I think) meat compared to a cottontail rabbit with "white meat." We used to shoot the jacks in various ways, including center-fire rifles. I ate a few of them but it was a struggle compared to say pheasant or cottontail. I guess I wasn't hungry enough at that point to really enjoy those prairie hares.

They cycled down after about 1983 around here and have never made a comeback. I think I've seen maybe less than 5 in my county in the last 20 years.

Back in the late sixties there were a few "jacks" around this part of Wis. I shot a couple and you are correct, they are not good table fare compared to cottontail. Nowadays it's only cottontails except some of the big forested areas have snowshoes.


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Re: My buddy from Vermont [Re: Bruce T] #8316760
01/19/25 02:32 PM
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Re: My buddy from Vermont [Re: KeithC] #8316842
01/19/25 03:47 PM
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Originally Posted by KeithC
In the book "Watership Down" that could be The Black Rabbit of Inlé, also known as Inlé-rah ("Prince/Chief of the Moon" or "Prince/Chief of the Dead).

Keith

Wow, i read that when i was in the navy underway to somewhere in the early 1980's

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