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Other Hunting => Coyote, Small Game, Varmints => Topic started by: slavenoid on August 26, 2022, 06:48:14 PM

Title: Mountain Cottontail
Post by: slavenoid on August 26, 2022, 06:48:14 PM: I sometimes run into big fat rabbits around 3000-4000 feet. Are these hefty rabbits Nutall's Cottontail?

Do people hunt them? My kid wants to go squirrel and rabbit hunting I figured this might be our best shot at some kind of success.
Title: Re: Mountain Cottontail
Post by: metlhead on August 27, 2022, 08:20:35 AM: Depends on location. Could be snowshoe. Up norh were tons of those San Juan hares, as we called them.
Title: Re: Mountain Cottontail
Post by: slavenoid on August 27, 2022, 12:36:05 PM: St Helens and Adams. They don't look very athletic compared to flat land rabbits.
Title: Re: Mountain Cottontail
Post by: pianoman9701 on August 27, 2022, 01:35:55 PM: Quote from: slavenoid on August 27, 2022, 12:36:05 PM
St Helens and Adams. They don't look very athletic compared to flat land rabbits.

Snowshoes. The ones I've seen up there turn dark brown in the summer.
Title: Re: Mountain Cottontail
Post by: slavenoid on September 02, 2022, 01:24:17 PM: Quote from: pianoman9701 on August 27, 2022, 01:35:55 PM
Quote from: slavenoid on August 27, 2022, 12:36:05 PM
St Helens and Adams. They don't look very athletic compared to flat land rabbits.

Snowshoes. The ones I've seen up there turn dark brown in the summer.

Got it. They are pretty dark brown when I run into them.