Jackrabbit Hunting With Bow
 

Hey guys, I as wondering if any of you ever shot jackrabbits with your bow, my setup is Bow Tech Edge 50lbs, Easton aluminum arrows, bludgeon points or G5 small game head. Will this work effectively, and what tips for hunting them will 10-20 yard shots be possible. Are their pelts any good? What about eating them?

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Rabbits are excellent eating!! A rule I've always gone by here In Mn Is If the month has an R In It I can then eat them. There's something about wild rabbits that were suppose to eat them In the colder months around here. Something to do with there liver I think. As for your set up, that will be more then enough to do the job. As for tips on hunting them, just go out there and do It. There pelts aren't worth a whole lot.

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If you can hit them your bow will kill them. They are a blast with a bow. I've chaced them with Trad equipment a bunch and they are fun. In fact I'm going in Feb to the Great Ohio Rabbit Hunt (GORH) All traditional guys chasing rabbit its a blast.

Steve if you were closer you'd love it.

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Is that being advertised over on Trad Gang right now? I saw that they had a few rabbit shoots all lined up. That sure would be a blast!!

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With the pelts I was thinking about making some mukluks or a blanket are they any good for this. I will be eating and using all I can of the rabbit.

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Possibly could be. If your going to do something with the fur make sure you do It when there In there prime which should be In the winter I'd think when there fur Is there thickest.

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I have shot rabbits with the bow before and it's okay. I wouldnt need to do it again. Even with a blunt tip it took a while for it to expire. I actually shot it twice and it still took five minutes to die. I didnt like it because i dont enjoy watching animals while they slowly die. Go out and try it for yourself, to each his own!

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Well for one thing you got to shoot them In the right place or there going to stay alive like any other animal If the shot placement Isn't right. If there still alive when you walk up to them just hit them over the head and there done.

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The boy and I just got back from chasing rabbits with a whole bunch of Trad gangers, longbow and recurves, what a blast!!!!!!! Got to the Pow Wow at tradgang and check out the Wisconsin Bunny Romp thread! One of the most fun hunts I have been on in a long while!

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I have shot cottentails with a bow but never jackrabbits - I am pretty sure everyone else was refering to them too. From what I hear jacks are a bit tougher, not sure if blunts will quickly dispatch them, at least with body shots? Cottentails are easy to kill with a blunt.

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Here in west Texas there's a big difference between jackrabbits and cotton tails.If it's been cold and snowy I will eat a cotton tail,jack rabbits are worthless on a good day! Shooting the G5 small game heads will tear them a new one! We shoot jacks off alfalfa fields in off season and it's great fun just guessing range,they don't go to waste with yotes around!;)The jack rabbit hides could have all kind of parisites during the warmer months here.

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Yep thats the one. I went to one a few years ago...No rabbits but we had a blast. A good bunch of trad guys too.

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Jacks are WAY tougher than cottontails. If I was specifically going after jacks, I would do it with broadheads. I shot many with blunts and judos that got away down in TX.

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That's the same thing I was thinking!

Cottontails are a blast! No Jack rabbits around here;)

Dan

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People who tie flies will give you a few bucks for pelts sometimes to use as dubbing

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I have shot a few rabbits with my bow. I guess ours are more cottontails than jackrabbits but those G5 Small Game Heads work the best of anything I have ever used. Every rabbit I have shot with them has dropped quickly and of the last 5 only one needed to be finished off.

Get out there and get into them its great fun and depending on how much they are hunted it can be great stalking practice too.

This was the first thing I shot with my 82nd when i got it.

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