White Tail Rabbit Hunting

[Frac]

After a hard frost there is less chance of the rabbit carrying tularemia. The frost also tends to kill off botfly larvae.

[buffalobo]

I just shoot em in the yard year round. No eating them until winter though.

After a hard frost there is less chance of the rabbit carrying tularemia. The frost also tends to kill off botfly larvae.

+1, good hard freeze for us. All mentioned above + ticks, mites and other nasties.

We complain if not hunting rabbits by Thanksgiving.

[JohnnyDrama]

After a hard frost there is less chance of the rabbit carrying tularemia. The frost also tends to kill off botfly larvae.

I usually wait until after a snow. This year I may make an exception though. It's cold enough out there now I figure if we had a little higher humididity we'd have a good frost. I remember finding live botfly larvae under a rabbit pelt in high school. You want to make sure those things are dead.