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The Dust Bowl Jackrabbit Drives Were the Darkest Days of Small-Game Hunting in America
Posted on 3/16/23 at 12:31 pm
Posted on 3/16/23 at 12:31 pm
The Dust Bowl Jackrabbit Drives Were the Darkest Days of Small-Game Hunting in America
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This particular drive was slated to comb four sections of rolling prairie. Organizers loaded nearly 80 volunteers—all boys and men this day—into cars and farm trucks, then dropped them off again along the perimeter. By the time everyone was in position, the hunters had formed a spindly square, each side stretching 2 miles long across the countryside. Then they started walking.
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Posted on 3/16/23 at 12:41 pm to wickowick
80 people doesn't seem like much to cover a square that was 2 miles on each side.
I know the article mentioned a few coyotes but killing predators is what you gets your too many rabbits.
Looks like it was a dirty job but needed doing.
I know the article mentioned a few coyotes but killing predators is what you gets your too many rabbits.
Looks like it was a dirty job but needed doing.
Posted on 3/16/23 at 12:54 pm to wickowick
quote:
The Dust Bowl Jackrabbit Drives Were the Darkest Days of Small-Game Hunting in America
that wasnt hunting, it was a survival requirement.
you couldnt get anything to grow, and if it did, the rabbits ate it the very same day. if you want to feed your family, you kill the rodents and rabbits eating your familys food
Posted on 3/16/23 at 12:59 pm to wickowick
Were they eating the rabbits? The link won't load for me.
This post was edited on 3/16/23 at 1:00 pm
Posted on 3/16/23 at 1:00 pm to wickowick
Link doesn’t work for me
Could you just eat those things?
Could you just eat those things?
Posted on 3/16/23 at 1:02 pm to Loup
quote:
Were they eating the rabbits? The link won't load for me.
i would think so, they were starving and could barely get anything to grow so they wouldnt waste that meat even if the rabbits were also starving and had no fat.
in a way, it was more humane to kill the rabbits than to let they slowly starve to death
Posted on 3/16/23 at 1:08 pm to keakar
My dad talked about jack rabbit drives in sw ontario in 40s when he was a kid. They would set up a drive between concessions. They would get as many shooters as possible, no fences and would fill pickup trucks w them. They would eat them but not nearly as good as cotton tails. Now its very rare to see a jack.
Posted on 3/16/23 at 1:11 pm to EFHogman
You can eat them but rabbit starvation is a real thing if it’s not supplemented.
Posted on 3/16/23 at 1:15 pm to Loup
They ate them eventually. The article mentions them being loaded in refrigerated trucks to be sold out east...for $.10/ea.
Posted on 3/16/23 at 1:57 pm to wickowick
Make a roux
Posted on 3/16/23 at 2:01 pm to Sparty3131
That’s a lot of roux
Posted on 3/16/23 at 7:37 pm to wickowick
That wasn’t hunting that was pest elimination just like killing hogs on your land
Posted on 3/17/23 at 4:31 pm to DownSouthDave
My uncle would buy them for a penny (1 cent)each. Skin some and sell the skins for 3 cents. The carcasses skinned or not were ground whole and sold to the mink and fox fur farms for food. It was a good little side business for him. I doubt that very many were used for human consumption.
Posted on 3/17/23 at 4:42 pm to deltaland
quote:I hope they had the proper permit to carry on such carnage.
That wasn’t hunting that was pest elimination just like killing hogs on your land
Posted on 3/17/23 at 5:28 pm to White Bear
Leave it to the millennials to want a permit for killing an animal during the dust bowl. You are lucky you have air conditioning and an Xbox or your arse wouldn’t make it.
Posted on 3/17/23 at 10:44 pm to Taxman2010
quote:Don t project your weakness on me baw.
Leave it to the millennials to want a permit for killing an animal during the dust bowl. You are lucky you have air conditioning and an Xbox or your arse wouldn’t make it.
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