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Post by 72camaro on Apr 7, 2013 16:35:05 GMT -7
I seen a hare in Mountain Home this week Whistle Pig Hunting and he seen us as was so fast I couldn't believe it. After seeing it I checked, those things have a very limited hunting time evidently in Idaho. I would have thought they would be legal all year like the Badgers and Coyotes.
I also seen what was probably a little cottontail but didn't shoot it, it was pretty small and I think they also were not legal to shoot at the time anyhow.
Am I reading the regs right, they are only legal to shoot for about 3 months?
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Post by Timber Butte Outdoors on Apr 7, 2013 16:52:23 GMT -7
72camero,
The hares your are mentioning, are not hares, they are plain ol' Blacktip Jackrabbits, and they are open all year. They are a varmint!
Snowshoe Hares & Cottontails do have a season. The snowshoes live at higher elevations than the valley floor.
I believe that we have several species of cottontail rabbits, one of is the pigmy cottontail, that is probable what you seen! Or it could have been a young bunny??
Gary
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Post by 72camaro on Apr 7, 2013 17:13:37 GMT -7
Are there no Hares in Mountain Home so I don't have to worry about it? I couldn't have got a shot off at the Jackrabbit if I wanted to on that guy, he went from 25yds to 120yds in about 1 second. He was fast. If there are no Hares in Mountain Home I may pay more attention next time to the big rabbit. This was in the same area I seen the coyote a couple days earlier. I want to make sure I'm not hunting something out of season.
I could hear the coyotes from two different areas while looking for badgers yesterday morning. They were quite a ways off. After racing season I'm going to have to come down and see how you guys do it. I did a call with my rattler and they kept howling but I don't know if that really means anything. It started raining and I picked up as the son-in-laws had direction to call me and pick me up if it started getting worse as they were closer to the rain coming as they were doing whistle pigs farther West by about a mile or so. Funny part, I seen them when they were coming in to shoot but they didn't see me up on the hills in full cammo, but waving. I got dropped off earlier since they were not ready when I was ready.
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Post by Timber Butte Outdoors on Apr 7, 2013 17:57:16 GMT -7
I am sorry I told you the jackrabbits here are blacktip - I should have said "Blacktail" Sorry! Here are some links for the differences with pictures and range info! Nope, there are no snowshoes down in the valley. Snowshoe Hares live in the mountains at higher elevations higher than Mt. Home. I can take you North of Emmett to about 5300 to 5500 ft and show you snowshoe hares, at least they used to be up there. I have seen them in solid white, mottled white/brown, and all brown, they are cool to see. Hares & Rabbits imnh.isu.edu/digitalatlas/bio/mammal/Lagom/snha/snhafrm.htmBlacktail Jacks www.blm.gov/id/st/en/environmental_education/BLM-Idaho_nature/wildlife/herbivores/jack_rabbit.htmlYou can see the differences in the hares and the jacks. As you can see from the pictures, the jacks are skinny and have big bulbous eyes and long ears, and really long back legs, and can run like the wind. The hare looks like a large cottontail rabbit. Jacks kinda look like an alien creature to me! Jacks are varmint, there is no season on them. Just stay away from the cottontails unless they are in season. The coyote were howling because they knew you were there, and they would not come any closer, the howling is to warn the rest of the countryside that there is a clear and present danger in their territory. If you had been shooting, and then began to call, all you have done is educated them further. Gary |
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Post by 72camaro on Apr 7, 2013 19:58:29 GMT -7
The son-in-laws were shooting the Whistle Pigs all that time. Makes sense. It was a Jackrabbit I seen. It was pretty large is why I thought it was a Hare.
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Post by broper on Apr 8, 2013 11:45:14 GMT -7
Jack rabbits are fun to shoot if you can get into a bunch of them. They run in cycles and they've been pretty scarce for a few years. It kinda seems like they're starting to come back a little, I hope so. I've seen more this past year than I have in a long time. If they come back and get pretty populated it will help the coyote population too. I think when there's lots of jackrabbits that they're the coyotes main prey. Years ago jackrabbits used to be lousy in southern Utah and it was nothing for two of us to shoot 60 or 70 a night. Now you can drive all over southern Utah and never see a jackrabbit. I hope they make a come back, we need more targets.
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Post by Eric on Apr 8, 2013 16:14:10 GMT -7
Theyre not as fast as my FJ  |
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Post by earthwalker on Apr 9, 2013 5:46:41 GMT -7
The white tailed Jackrabbit are protected they live at higher elevations too.
Yes, we have them.
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Post by Shayne on Feb 3, 2021 21:58:12 GMT -7
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Post by broper on Feb 4, 2021 6:39:55 GMT -7
This is an old post/thread but I'll make a comment. We have found a few jack rabbits while out hunting other varmints but they haven't come back in great numbers like they were years ago. At least not in this area. Although we call them jack "rabbits" they are a true hare. The only true rabbits we have are the cotton tails. The pygmy subspecies is not all that common but be careful when hunting cottontails as the pygmy is protected. I have never seen a pygmy in the wild myself, only pictures. When I lived in No. Idaho I saw snow shoe hares quite often while I was deer hunting. Never did shoot one though. Unlike the jack rabbit they are good to eat.
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Post by 72camaro on Feb 4, 2021 19:48:32 GMT -7
In Mountain Home I did see either a young cottontail or it was a pygmy, didn't shoot either way as I only shoot cottontails if big enough to eat.
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Post by broper on Feb 5, 2021 18:39:15 GMT -7
Yeah, there some subtloe differences in in common cottontail and pygmy. Don't know if I would know the difference or not.
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