Spent Saturday in the company of Jeff Wemmer while I was in Odessa. Jeff is a great guy with heart as big as West Texas.

We tried to go rabbit hunting, but apparently all the rain in Houston followed me to Odessa.
So we shot one of his 470s at the range on his lease. We spent the rest of the morning and most of the afternoon encamped at Gun Sport in Odessa visiting with John the owner and most of the customers who came in to the store.

I got to fondle the Keith Jeffery that jeff owns. She is even prettier in person! I'd call the bores damn near perfect!

Looking forward to another great visit on my next trip.

Rusty, thanks for moving the rain westward.

Did Jeff ever pick up the SxS shotgun for his son?

Keith

You probably need to use a 470NE on those "big" West Texas jack-rabbits. I did 4 years in Midland and we would shoot them through the ears with a .22 rimfire - it was a lot of fun and they lived to fight another day (not that I'm a bunny hugger we just wanted to keep the population up, so we could have more fun).

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Rusty, thanks for moving the rain westward.

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Rusty, thanks for moving the rain westward.

Did Jeff ever pick up the SxS shotgun for his son?

Keith

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Did Jeff ever pick up the SxS shotgun for his son?

Keith

Sure did Keith....Excellent little gun....as advertised....Very pleased!
Thanks,

JW

Glad you like it. I hope your son makes lots of great memmories with it.

Keith

MHC - I've found the 416 Rigby to be an excellent backup weapon for our big NM jacks. Have had to stop several charges and it's performed well so far. Buddy was using his 458 Watt (not a lot, a Watt) but he was tearing up the capes when he hit the skull.
Can't abide you shooting them thru the ears though. 10 jacks = 1 cow in my forage utilization model. Need to foster more cows since they more efficiently utilize the scales at the sale barn.
That does explain all the jacks we've been getting here with holes thru the ears. I thought for a while that the USDA or BLM had instituted some kind of NAIS on them and they were rubbing the tags out like the cows do. Wifey said they've been visiting the tatoo parlors in El Paso and getting pierced but I knew that couldn't be the case since they rarely pay for their forage and I couldn't see them paying for a piercing before food since they are light skinned. The darker colored ones maybe . . . but I digress.
To get back on thread, I strongly recommend that you cease your practice of piercing them with 22's. Leaves them wounded, mad, and potentially dangerous to unsuspecting persons wandering the prairie with their camera, BF net & birding binos. These folks don't even purchase "habitat" stamps so there is no way they could defend themselves in the event of an attack. Their only warning would be the tremendous teeth clacking noise they make right before the charge unless they happened to notice the ears flat back along their spine. Not to mention the personal danger you are incurring to yourself when engaged in this practice. Give me a PM and we'll coordinate my personal backup should you desire to engage in this practice in the future.

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To get back on thread, I strongly recommend that you cease your practice of piercing them with 22's. Leaves them wounded, mad, and potentially dangerous to unsuspecting persons wandering the prairie with their camera, BF net & birding binos. These folks don't even purchase "habitat" stamps so there is no way they could defend themselves in the event of an attack. Their only warning would be the tremendous teeth clacking noise they make right before the charge unless they happened to notice the ears flat back along their spine. Not to mention the personal danger you are incurring to yourself when engaged in this practice

Gives me chills. They have been known to decapitate a man without warning.

You guys have been watching too much Monty Python.

RUN AWAY RUN AWAY

Wait till y'all see our forthcoming video "Death by Long-Ears"...

...Will make Sullivan's stuff look like a walk in the park with "Barney"...

Stay tuned!

JW

Nothing scares me more than standing down a charge from a Vorpal Bunny. Sometimes the sound of a can opener gives me shivers...



-Steve

Yikes!

I'm telling you, these "Rabbits" are very underrated...I've been charged several times by wounded "Jacks" and have nearly lost some really good dogs when they flush...They are the nemisis of any serious bird hunters...Thank God for HV 7.5 1/14 oz. 12 ga loads!

Be careful this bird season!

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Thank God for HV 7.5 1/14 oz. 12 ga loads

Good luck with that.

These lethal jacks are actually one of the few remaining colonies of the once thought extinct "cave rabbit". It was these cave rabbits that actually led to the extinction of the cave bear, shattering the myth that the bear was hunted to extinction.

The sound they make upon attack is not really similar to a can opener - it is a low pitched growling noise more like a trash compacter.

I have read in the big bore forum that even interlocks and TSX bullets completely fragment on hitting these tough beasts. And rumor has it you cannot push a solid hard enough to get the penetration you need. What you really need is depleted uranium with an explosive tip. Even then, to be effective, you need to be within hopping range. And that's too close for some folks.

When you're inside full plate armour or an M1 tank, they sound like a can opener. I've heard that the sound much more low pitched when not fully protected, but I think that's a urban legend. No one is crazy enought to pull a stunt like that. Not even Will.

I'm watching Jeff on my TV right now!

GeoffM24,

That hunt was a "practice" run for my DRH (Dangerous Rabbit Hunt) video...

...We'll be going after the big "3"; cottontail, Snowshoe and lastly the dreaded "Jack"...

...If anybody has some pointers for me I'd surely appreciate them.

Jeff,

I trust you have at least one Holy Hand Grenade.

Are you going to let the wabbitt decide how he wants to die? You know, you must be vewy, vewy quiet...

Cave Rabbits? - No problem!

I've seen many in my area.

I was once stalked by the now extinct Jack-o-Pottomus. Fortuntely I smelled it while stealthily charging from it's pond side lair amongst the tall grasses. It approached in my "6" as they usually do with ears twirling and tusks gnashing in a full hop! I turned in time to slay the beast with two quick rounds of 3500 grains #12 shot in front of 700 grains of 3F followed by a third "compressed" load consisting of an fin stabilised tungsten dart wound with Schick double edge's laced with Old Spice. This last load was developed for me by the highly regarded PH and conservationist "A. Hun". I call it the "Killet Load". Kill & Fillet........


Tastes like chicken.

The new Video "Rabbits, the Grand Slam" or our working title, "Death on the Hop"!

I'd like a signed first edition please!

we occasionally are charged by a bull JR up here in Idaho, but a hot loaded 45 Long Colt round (300gr @1200fps) will almost always turn the charge...

You all do know the only fool proof way to stop a Bull jackrabbit charging you don't you? Take the American Express card away...they won't leave home without it!

Rich
DRSS

I've never met Jeff but each time I go in Gun Sport I run into Jon Thomas

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I've never met Jeff but each time I go in Gun Sport I run into Jon Thomas

That is strange each time I go to Market Hall in Dallas I run into Jon Thomas.

Bill

Well maybe we can all see each other at the DSC in January!

That soundes like a good idea. Lets work on time and place aka high noon at the break area.
Bill