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Post by deputydon on Oct 19, 2008 21:07:08 GMT -5
Well as I have reported on and off I have seen jackrabbits between me and Bloomfield to the east of me. Bounce always asks "Was it a whitetail or a blacktail?" I always answer "I don't know I never see it long enough.".Well the other night while working @ the "wind farm" I chased one up the road w/ my spotlight..... And Bounce it was a big WHITETAIL!!!!!
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Post by bounce on Oct 20, 2008 7:43:27 GMT -5
That's great news DD as They are the king of all jacks and the least of, even back in the good hunting days the rate was probibly 20 to 1. So if you shot 60 per night 57 would be blacktails and 3 would be whitetails but they were twice to three times as big and jump twice as high when shot with a .22 and sometimes with a shotgun to like 6 feet straight up. It made it all more fun. Collecting money at the mink farm was fun too.
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Post by twomoons on Oct 27, 2008 13:05:14 GMT -5
White tails, those are the one with the horns, right?
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Post by bounce on Oct 27, 2008 19:42:13 GMT -5
Yup when mounted in bar's as tophys, I never got anything but does my self. So I never had any horns to show off. You know me, allways the meat hunter!!
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Post by twomoons on Nov 14, 2008 10:45:47 GMT -5
Around tower #4 there is a family of them, I've seen a pair so far.
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Post by bounce on Nov 14, 2008 11:24:35 GMT -5
Thats the way Whitetails are, I accualy think they pair up for life? or a .22 in the head. Had years of seeing them that way in the 50's & 60's over at dads south farm. In some ways they are the mule deer of rabbits as to whitetail deer are to blacktailed rabbits.
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Post by deputydon on Nov 14, 2008 20:15:55 GMT -5
I saw one by tower 23, thats 2 1/2 miles away as the crow flies!! Or the bunny hops!!! ROFLMAO
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Post by twomoons on Nov 17, 2008 21:17:22 GMT -5
The landowner there didn't know the Jacks were back. He was tickled that they were coming back.
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Post by deputydon on Nov 19, 2008 7:44:34 GMT -5
Just about hit a BIG Jack rabbit coming home by Zieglers just east of Center, where I first saw one a year ago or so. It was a Whitetailed Jack also. That would be about 6-7 miles southwest of the Wind Farm. I think we're seeing a "come back" of Jacks!!!!!
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Post by bounce on Nov 19, 2008 10:02:21 GMT -5
This is happy news. Allmost worth makeing the local spellbinder!! but realy the less that know the less peaple out looking for them will run over them lol.
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