Jack Rabbitt Recipe Help...

crazy_train04

crazy_train04

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I have tried cooking Jacks a few different ways now and I can't seem to have any luck at it. They always come out tasting very game like and not so tender...

I was wondering if anyone had a good Jack recipe they would be willing to share to help me out..
Thanks Alot!
 
I first start by cleaning them using either a 55gr v-max from my AR or a 75 gr hp from my 25-06. Then roast them slowly on a rock in the hot Nevada sun. The coyotes love them ! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
A good Jack recipe? Absolutely!

Utah Slow Roasted Jack

Start by digging a hole, 3 feet deep by 2 feet wide.

Fill bottom 2 feet with very dry cow manure.

Place between 1 and 4 jackrabbits on top of the manure. Do not gut or skin! Leave the rabbits whole.

Place more dry manure in the hole to completely fill it to the top.

Light the manure. When the manure is smoldering well, cover the top with some of the soil you removed from the hole. Leave an open space in the middle of the soil cap about 4" in diameter. This will allow enough air for the manure to smolder, but not completely burn out.

Let the manure and rabbits smolder for 10 to 12 hours depending on how many rabbits you put in the hole.

At the determined time, dig up the rabbits, throw them away and eat the manure. It makes a better meal! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
Crazy: Which you must be for wanting to eat them, I will say that IMHO eating a Jack is 'Crazy'. Here is the real answer for what you ask.

Varmint Hunter Mag, Oct 2004, issue 52, pg 133 'Jackrabbit-The Great American Standby' by Ted Stotler. Has two receipes, main point, remove the tough membrane around the meat prior to cooking. My personal perference would be the more tasty smoked manure, however!
 
Crazy-Train, Where are you from? make sure if you eat those long eared rats that it's been plenty cold for disease control. I would almost rather eat the Utah fuzzy tailed rat (Squirrel
).

gag, puke gag. Sorry gotta go clean my keyboard.

J.K.
Good luck to ya.
 
you guys must live sheltered lives or I do. I've eaten hundreds of jackrabbit and can't tell the diffrence between them and the cottontails I shoot with them. And I've never had a problem with diseases, if they had too many fleas we left them for the coyotes, otherwise we skinned them on the spot. Everything was soaked in milk overnight, then fried, coated with bisquick and salt and pepper.
 
Hey guys I live in southern Ontario. We have a good number of jacks around here. I dont see why you wouln't want to eat myself. They are quite large and have alot of meat on them. I have never seen any disease and I have shot my share of them. I posted a picture of one I got last Jan.
Jack_Cotton.jpg
 
ok just so you do not think I posted the disease as a scare tactic here is a link and some cooking advise. Rabbit cooking
here is a snipid of the site

WARNING: Proper precautions should be taken when handling and processing rabbits. Rubber or other non-porous gloves should be used when handling wild rabbits. Wash the animal as soon as possible to remove Tularemia spores from the fur. Tularemia is a disease of wild rabbits which is transmissible to humans. It occurs in the United States in every month but especially in the autumn. Additional information under "Eviscerating Procedures" is provided.
 
That is just wrong! If you can't kill enough cotton tails to eat then go get some beef from the store but for god's sake don't eat the damn jacks!!!
 
So I guess my recipe for badger under glass would not be received well here?

Jacks are targets of opportunity, best utilized by only wounding, then seeing what other critter comes to a screaming dinner.

Baaaaahkie! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
Weasel-UT

I am a fun loving person, but I am not one who tends to laugh out loud very much.

Thanks - you not only made me laugh out loud, I am still laughing.
 


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