big bunny

[Greenmtnboy]

was out scouting for martin season with my smoothbore when up popped a dead bunny.
It is epic rabbit hunting this year in the high country.
My wife had all ready nailed six on her way to work in the morn via snowmobile and 22 single six.

 

[GBG]

hoggenfeffer?

 

[Greenmtnboy]

hoggenfeffer?

bunny and dumplings!
yummmmm

 

[wattlebuster]

Wow thats biggern a lot of the dogs round here :thumbsup:

 

[jrmflintlock]

Yum. I have not had a chance to chase them kind this year!! Sounds Like Paradise!!

That sure is a hog!

 

[lonehunter]

Wow thats biggern a lot of the dogs round here :thumbsup:

Bigger than some of our deer! :haha:

 

[George T.]

Yes indeed! Here in East Texas we have a few Swamp Rabbits that look like a huge Cotton Tail!
I really like grilled rabbit after soaking them in BBQ sauce over night! Geo. T.

 

[Greenmtnboy]

I soak em in a salt water bath then par boil in seasonings then pull meat off bone. put back into dutch oven add potatoes,carrots,celery,onion etc... stew then add biscuits,cover put coals over the top and brown.

 

[Rev_William]

Dude you're makin my mouth water lol... Thats about 3 times bigger than the cottontails I been finding.

 

[flyfisher76544]

Nice big ole fat rabbit, :thumbsup:

 

[ny griz]

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: "DROOL" Griz

 

[Loyalist Dave]

I should think you folks could identify a jackalope doe Lopegigrus lepusalopus ineptus from a common bunny!


:haha:

LD

 

[Britsmoothy]

I was wondering where you was :grin:

That looks like what we call mountain hare or blue hare.

B :hatsoff:

 

[BillinOregon]

Awesome snowshoe hare, GMB! Taken with a flint smoothie, it just doesn't get any better. We have them here, too, but up high, above 5,000 feet. (I know, that ain't high by Colorado standards!)
:wink:

 

[S.Kenton]

DANG!.. Thats one big ol' bunny! I wish I was there with ya man! I'd never wanna come home!
I always enjoy your pics and storys..

 

[Roguedog]

Damnation!! That rabbit is about half the length of your shotgun. I wonder how many pounds one of those rabbits would weigh? At any rate, congrats on the kill.

Jeff

 

[Greenmtnboy]

I got 5lbs of meat of this one.
now of coarse this is a snowshoe hare, I live at 10,000 ft and it is an epic rabbit year.
down low out of the timber we have cotton tails that run about half the size.those are the ones my wife has been tormenting with her 22.

 

[Greenmtnboy]

I was wondering where you was :grin:

That looks like what we call mountain hare or blue hare.

B :hatsoff:

cool, I really enjoy local terms for critters.
It's regional and ol school.
I remember some flat lander telling me that the partridge I just shot was a ruffed grouse.
I said in Mass it may be called that but up here in the Northeast kingdom of VT we call em Partridge.
:wink:

 

[Moose Guide]

Great picture, I love the whole cabin, gun, shoes and game set-up! Are those Faber snow shoes?

 

[Greenmtnboy]

they are Ojibwas made by Indians in Canada. I can't remember the company that sells them.
I make my own bindings because we have very deep snow and I need stiff leather that will hold up to miles of trekking.