From the 45 smoothrifle. Why these are not more popular I'll never understand!
That's a brown hare!
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That’s as big as a lot of the coyotes around here.
My local bunnies don’t run mush over two pounds
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Nice!!
Banjoman
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That’s a lot of rabbit! (Hare, I know)
Beautiful countryside too! Looks a lot like the view out my back door here in East Tennessee.
Beautiful countryside too! Looks a lot like the view out my back door here in East Tennessee.
aussie pete
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OOOh, lovely! I have a Maltese friend; his wife cuts the hare up into tasty morsels, applies a spiced breadcrumb coating, then shallow fries the pieces until crispy. Back in the day, when I got a hare, it was straight off to Mary and Joe's for a free dinner! Much darker than rabbit flesh but preferred by some.
Cheers, Pete
It’s ears looks like jackrabbit ears.
When I used to live up in the high elevations in Colorado, one fella I knew and worked with kept telling me of some very large rabbits up in one area. He called them Alpine Hares that hangs out just about at timberline. Being a hardcore rabbit hunter back then I had a difficult time believing that any wild rabbit could get as big as he stated they were.
After months of hearing about this and after the snow melt, I finally talked him into taking me up to that location. Sure enough, we came around the edges of some brush and I saw one of those things. It was so big that at first I said “look there’s a baby deer”, until it took off running. Biggest darn rabbit I’ve ever seen.
Brit, perhaps that’s the same kind of rabbit?
When I used to live up in the high elevations in Colorado, one fella I knew and worked with kept telling me of some very large rabbits up in one area. He called them Alpine Hares that hangs out just about at timberline. Being a hardcore rabbit hunter back then I had a difficult time believing that any wild rabbit could get as big as he stated they were.
After months of hearing about this and after the snow melt, I finally talked him into taking me up to that location. Sure enough, we came around the edges of some brush and I saw one of those things. It was so big that at first I said “look there’s a baby deer”, until it took off running. Biggest darn rabbit I’ve ever seen.
Brit, perhaps that’s the same kind of rabbit?
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We do have on uplands the mountain hare, also called blue hare.It’s ears looks like jackrabbit ears.
When I used to live up in the high elevations in Colorado, one fella I knew and worked with kept telling me of some very large rabbits up in one area. He called them Alpine Hares that hangs out just about at timberline. Being a hardcore rabbit hunter back then I had a difficult time believing that any wild rabbit could get as big as he stated they were.
After months of hearing about this and after the snow melt, I finally talked him into taking me up to that location. Sure enough, we came around the edges of some brush and I saw one of those things. It was so big that at first I said “look there’s a baby deer”, until it took off running. Biggest darn rabbit I’ve ever seen.
Brit, perhaps that’s the same kind of rabbit?
I might just try that, thanks for the tip
aussie pete
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I might just try that, thanks for the tip
Leave the bones in. Keeps the hare from drying out. Man, you are making me hungry!Pete
Patocazador
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That's about the size of a big Jackrabbit here. They are also hares. I've shot a few when asked to but never have eaten one. They only live in our western states so I'll probably never get a chance to try aussie pete's recipe.
Outstanding!!!!!
That's called a swamp rabbit around here.
2 totally different species
Nice. I shoot and eat quite a few hares. Go well in a casserole
I didn't say which species it was, just what it was called back when I was a kid.
Ed you ran into Snowshoe Hares. Down home in the swamps of Ms. where i am from . We hunted the big ones called Cane Cutters, swamp rabbits. They were are rabbits you can tell by their ears
hbasajaun
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Oooo well done
You went and shot Bugs Bunny!!! 
Joking aside, that is the largest rabbit I have ever seen. I hope he’s tasty!
Joking aside, that is the largest rabbit I have ever seen. I hope he’s tasty!
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Not the same! rabbits have smaller ears that was a type of hare!
