Would Jackrabbit in distress work in the East?

pachuckhunter

pachuckhunter

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We have cottontails here, not jacks. I have Cottontail distress on cd I could use, but my hand calls all have lousy Cottontail distress. BUT, one does produce a good jackrabbit distress similar to the sound Les uses on predator Quest.
 
I had a guy in Maine tell me once that his most productive calling tape the season before was one of our Texas jackrabbits. I believe that coyotes will come to anything that sounds edible. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif
 
I have always doubted that a coyote could tell the difference between a cottontail/jackrabbit/snowshoe. I also doubt that they really know what they are coming into other than something that has tripped their brain into thinking it was suppertime. I have played a tape of rabbit distress in my garage and my cat freaks out trying to figure out what it is. He has even semi stalked the tape player and I am fairly certain that he has never seen a rabbit, let alone one in distress, in his life. He just knows that certain sounds means its go time.
 
yeah, it might work better than expected, especially if many ppl use cottontail calls, it will give them something a little different.

i believe that a good distress sound will call critters whether or not that prey is in the area or not. all they predator hears is an easy meal, they don't care what accent it has
 
pachuckhunter

I am in VA and there are alot grays and a few reds in my area. They both respond to jackrabbit distress very well. This past season we tried the new FoxPro sound "Aggressive Jackrabbit", there is no doubt to a human, it ain't a cottontail, it is an aggressive Jack rabbit. My first red fox of the winter fell to that sound, came all the way across a big stubblefield of cut corn, on a mission.

Whatever sounds the most like death is what I want to play on an e-call or a mouthcall.
 
I have been using a jack distress sound on my handcalls here in Indiana na dit is work just as good if not better than the cottontail, my theroy is that it is a little differant than what they are used to.

Good Luck and let us know how you do.

3rd Alarm
 
Here in SC, I've had responses with Jackrabbit, Prairiedog and Groundhog and we don't have any of those. They are sounds that project an animal in distress and predators are programmed to react to that catagory.
Different sounds give you the ability to get away from sounds that may be over-used and are loosing their effect, in your area and get better responses with unheard or seldom heard sounds....
 


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