Eat more rabbits--don't become extinct

[Don87]

Don, you obviously don't believe in the literal interpretation of the Bible; I'm curious as to how you can discount evolution in light of the overwhelming geological and fossil evidence?

There are things that were known.......but it seems they were hidden from us :

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[2LaneCruzer]

I think rabbit hunting is traditionally a Winter sport, but since we were never sports hunters, we wanted to eat year round.:laughing:

Shooting rabbits at night with a .12 gauge in the pasture from a fender of my 1946 Chevy sedan was definitely for both sport and food, though.:laughing: My driver was usually pretty good, but the night he was concentrating on keeping a jackrabbit in the headlights, trying to overtake it, and hit a terrace just as I pulled the trigger on that old double barrelled .12 gauge . . . well, did you ever see anyone do a back flip off a car fender? Fortunately no serious damage, but it's not something I'd want to do again.

Hah. Dad and I used to get in his '49 Packard, and would take my Remington Targetmaster single shot, and we would cruise the country roads after dark. Got where I could shoot the eye out of a sitting cottontail at night. Did this for years...Ah, the memories.

 

[Bird]

Hah. Dad and I used to get in his '49 Packard, and would take my Remington Targetmaster single shot, and we would cruise the country roads after dark. Got where I could shoot the eye out of a sitting cottontail at night. Did this for years...Ah, the memories.

My 1946 Chevy was my first car in 1956. But in 1958, I got a 1956 Mercury Montclair convertible, and yep we cruised the back dirt roads with the top down; one driving and the other standing up behind the windshield on the passenger side. We got quite a few cottontails that way, too.

And a buddy had a 1951 Pontiac convertible we used the same way until someone reported his license number.:shocked: In those days, it was just a fine, court costs, and constable's fee for a total of $18.50 each. Of course U.S. Post Office clerks and carriers made less than $2 an hour.:laughing:

 

[teejk]

That "first frost" thing is due to parasites I think. I don't know if it's true anymore (remember when your mom used to cook pork-chops to leather even though we haven't seen a case of tric in decades hence the newer USDA guidance that pork can be medium)? That starvation thing is still true though ("How to Survive in the Woods" is a classic guide that discusses it). So eat it sparingly and/or cook it with fat. It's tasty stuff.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

That "first frost" thing is due to parasites I think. I don't know if it's true anymore (remember when your mom used to cook pork-chops to leather even though we haven't seen a case of tric in decades hence the newer USDA guidance that pork can be medium)? That starvation thing is still true though ("How to Survive in the Woods" is a classic guide that discusses it). So eat it sparingly and/or cook it with fat. It's tasty stuff.

Mom usually served it along with a big bowl of fried okra or fried potatoes and onions, maybe some home canned green beans and pickled beets. Had our share of fried pork chops and beans and cornbread...not much chance of starvation. Lots of fish, quail, duck ( I hated duck) and even an occasional pheaseant.

Amazingly enough, we didn't eat all that much beef; an occasional roast maybe or a pan fried steak.

 

[Lou66]

I've stood many of nights in the back on an old 46 ford pickup.. with an old single shot 410,, my older brother did the driving he was 14 teen,, lots of old back roads,, that all there was come to think of it.. the main road had gravel on it,, and got graved four times a year.. if it needed it or not.. we raised or hunted everything we ate,, they called it canning back then,, but all we had were some old mason jars.. shouldn't it been called jarring.. .:laughing:.Lou