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When I was a kid, my father used to shoot jack rabbits and just leave them except for the young ones. The young ones are very good. From March until May, they are clean and generally safe to eat. Jack Rabbits are really a hare (don't live in burrows, raise their young in small depressions in the ground), and the females set their young out by a bush or some form of shelter from the sun and come back to feed them every hour or two. If you walk slowly in the areas you hunt during March, you will see some that look like full-grown jacks, but smaller. Those are the young of the year. Take those.

Tularemia is spread by delta-winged flies. These flies hatch out in April-May, so take your jacks before they are out and they're good to eat. Blow-flies and bots are also a warm-weather phenomenon, so if you don't like grubs or boils on your rabbits, get them early.