rare sighting

TackDriver284 · Jan 14, 2017

I have hunted South Texas brush all my life and see all sorts of wildlife and game, but a rare sight I have seen was the albino whitetail and a new sighting a few weeks ago on an orange bunny that outsmarted a young bobcat yards away from my deer blind. I have seen this orange bunny, supposedly a cottontail, hanging around my deer blind each time I hunt and it fooled a bobcat that tried to flank him and tried have him for dinner but with no success. :lol: Regularly those cottontails have a very dark grey and blackish coat, but this orange bunny have mixed in with the cottontails. It's a beauty seeing wildlife at its best.

truck driver · Jan 14, 2017

Yeah they can be smarter than they look. I mostly still hunt for deer and once had one hunker down between my feet while I stood by a tree off a trail to evade a red fox that was after it.

elkhunternm · Jan 14, 2017

Lovely cottontail.

sask boy · Jan 14, 2017

We have jack rabbits here in southern Saskatchewan & they use their colour to escape most predators. We also have bush rabbits (snowshoe hares) they are less plentiful & are a lot smaller they also use their colours for the purpose of survival.
I can tell you bush rabbits are new the top of my list for eating

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Blessings,
Dan

DrMike · Jan 14, 2017

Fine eating, Dan. 'Course, I'm grossly allergic to them. The lab animals got their revenge before I could slip away. Ask Gil about the last time I shot a snowshoe hare. Not funny, I tell you.

sask boy · Jan 14, 2017

DrMike, that is too bad as I wouldn't mind tasting a couple of your rabbit dishes :mrgreen: as you definitely know your way around a kitchen

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Blessings,
Dan

DrMike · Jan 14, 2017

I let Noah shoot them now. He also skins them. I just can't get near the dander or the fur. I had to change physicians shortly after arriving here in the North as my family physician kept pet rabbits. Every time I went into his office, I experienced severe conjunctivitis and often classic weal and welt on my arms. It didn't take me long to figure out that someone had pet rodents.

sask boy · Jan 14, 2017

Well that is good that Noah is there, I am quite sure that he is starting to become a very good woodsman :wink:.
We maybe coming up for a few days during the end of August or early September :wink:. I might ask to be a ride along on a morning or 2 of early Moose. I can always give a hand skinning or lifting :mrgreen:.

Blessings,
Dan

Blkram · Jan 15, 2017

DrMike":2mgihsfu said:
Fine eating, Dan. 'Course, I'm grossly allergic to them. The lab animals got their revenge before I could slip away. Ask Gil about the last time I shot a snowshoe hare. Not funny, I tell you.

Yes, for years Mike lamented not hunting rabbits while we were out and about. Finally a few years back he had a chance as he also had his 22 along. After some effort to get a clean shot (or 2 or 3) through the thick pines, he got his rabbit. After some effort he was able to retrieve his prize from the dense bush. A while later as we were travelling along hunting for moose, he was starting to have some difficulty with his eyes watering. As anyone normally does, he continued to rub his eyes, making them worse. After another 20 minutes or so, and his face getting redder and redder, and starting to sneeze, he suddenly remembered his bunny allergy. Poor guy was bright red in the face with steady tears running down his cheeks. We pulled over and got him a cloth and towel so he could wash his face and hands with cold water. He soon recovered. He was pretty good natured about the whole affair, and while he was still suffering, he was laughing at his own forgetfulness about his allergy. It was hard not to laugh with him. My wife was almost peeing her pants, we were all laughing so much as we continued along. I will never forget the look on his face!

Mike is a card, but the lengths that he will go to, to get a laugh some days is something you just have to be there to believe! LOL

Then there's the turtle story...but I'll save that for another day!