Rabbits are excellent eating! Brown them up in some fry magic and put them in the oven with some rice and cream of mushroom soup and bake for 1 hour at 375 degree's. We use shoot rabbits as kids all the time with are recurves or 22's. Here in the northern parts of the USA a person should be safe eating rabbits with any month that has an R in it. For example (September, October, November, December, January, February, March, April.My dad told me that years ago so thats what i go by.