Quote Originally Posted by cap'n cook View Post
do any of you guys eat wild rabbit when its not in winter months? i ate a bunch of them this winter, but i stopped eating them like a month ago when it started warming up. ive read and always been told its safe in the winter because the freeze kills the sick ones, but not so in the summer.
The rule I always heard when I was a kid was if the month had an "r" in it, rabbit was safe for the plate. So based on that, Sept-Apr should be good to go. With that said however, I doubt I'd trust that logic unless I heard it from a more reputable source that as an old wife's tale. As I recall, the only times I ate wild rabbit (it's probably been ~30 years since) were in the Jan-Feb time frame.

I'd be interested to hear others' thoughts as well.