Rabbit hunting and Tularemia

Well, okay, I came off a little judgemental. But noone commonly eats coyote, muskrat, or beaver (:eek: insert toilet humor here). Cottontails have been revered as vittals for generations.

I agree that your method of killing is not unethical, but still don't condone wasting food. My father survived the Great Depression...you know the story.

Free country. And I will conceed that you are breaking no laws.
 
Well, okay, I came off a little judgemental. But noone commonly eats coyote, muskrat, or beaver ( insert toilet humor here). Cottontails have been revered as vittals for generations.

I agree that your method of killing is not unethical, but still don't condone wasting food. My father survived the Great Depression...you know the story.

Free country. And I will conceed that you are breaking no laws.
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I hunt with Crankylove. I appreciate you not taking offense to his reply. It's a bit of a rare thing around here, some times.

I just wanted to clarify:
We generally shoot Jack Rabbits.
Cottontails are a hit-and-miss species. Sometimes they do well; sometimes they don't. There are only enough to shoot in the years they do well. On top of that - there are seasons on Cottontail, and they require a small game license. As such, you can't leave them (waste of game), and the season is only open during times of the year that make for good eatin'. ;)

The Jack Rabbits, however... We annihilate any chance we get. Coyotes may get a free meal out of each rabbit, but that's all they get. By controlling the Jack Rabbit population, we are preventing exponentially increasing opportunities for meals for the 'yotes. (We all know how rabbits breed. Letting a single Jack go can mean for a litter of 5-8 being born. Those will turn into 25-64, and those 25-64 into 625-4096! I think giving the 'yotes one free meal is a fair trade for denying them 4,000.) The whole point of killing the Jacks is predator control, anyway. If they don't have a food source, they don't breed as much.
 
Ah, I see. Jacks are shot here as varmints, too. The can, however, be eaten. They taste a bit like antelope, not the fine white flesh of a cotton-tail. Also, muskrat (sold back East as "marsh rabbit" for $65 a plate) tastes like goose, but is stringier. If you ever want to try either one, I reccomend simmering in gravy for a few hours to tenderize, just as they do with 'possoms in the South. Pidgeons (squab, $30 a plate) were the first fowl domesticated for food. Cajuns & Coonasses even eat coots! These taste alot like mud and coot poop!

One man's trash. . .
 
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