Went out the last week couple of times for pr. dog shooting with my bow, and noticed that we're starting to go up in the jackrabbit cycle-- so it seems. Late in the morning i started watching these jacks, and noticed that they would spook, and run aways, only to hole up again in the shade of the tall cholla cacti. So i scanned the cholla out in front of me aways with the binocs, and spotted several jacks holed up under them. I just waklked slowly up to them, and found that if i was careful enuf i could get within 20 yds. of them. I bet a guy could do pretty well on them with a bow, with a good pair of binocs-- when season starts, of course.

Sounds like fun! Great stalking pratice too!

We had a group of guys that get together the week before deer season to hunt TreeRats here in No, Ill. We get a little bet goingto see who can get the closest.

I don't know the particulars but jacks sometimes are like cicadas. All of a sudden there are hundreds or thousands. Only lasts a year and goes away but what fun for 10 months!

The only time I saw it personnally was Bergstrom AFB in Austin, TX 1965. There was hole every 30 feet over thousands of acres.

Astounding!

I used to shoot them with a dime-store bow when I was a kid in West Texas.

There was no season, but a 25 cent bounty for each pair of ears. Big money when I was getting a dime a week to mow the grass and take out the trash!

They will use (and may prefer) regular prickly pear cactus as a shady haven as well.

Thks for the responses guys-- good comments.