According to the below link, they say 41 jack rabbits to one cow. Not to bad until you look at population density possiblies of 400 jacks to ever 640 acres.

With high densities they really cut make huge impact on AU's


http://icwdm.org/handbook/mammals/Jackrabbits.asp

Interesting that you brought that up! It just dawned on me that I've never seen a wild rabbit Jack or cottontail drinking water at any of the ponds. I know they will drink when available from puddles in the road and pretty sure they get the majority of fluids from the vegetation they consume.

They are plenty in Midland county, we can usually get out and pop 30 in one night on a high-rack, great target practice, if anyone knows a good recipe please share- been looking to cook/fry some of the meat!

I remember stories about how my granddad used jack rabbits to help herd cattle back in the day in SW Oklahoma after the dust bowl
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I shoot them bc it's fun to see them jump up and do flips when that 23lr hits em

I remember stories about how my granddad used jack rabbits to help herd cattle back in the day in SW Oklahoma after the dust bowl
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I enjoyed seeing natures up and down swings in wildlife at the ranch.

One year the Jacks, Cottontails, Packrats, Prairie Dogs and Quail hit all hit their peek.....I am talking CRAZY numbers. A small covey of Blue Quail was 50 birds and large coveys were 100 bird(They turned the sky black). We would shoot at the quail and rabbits would explode in every direction distracting us trying follow up shots. Walking through the brush we would almost trip over them!

I have a picture of my friend reaching down and picking up a rabbit from under a bush. This friends wife liked cotton tails so he walked a circle outside the edge of camp about 50-60 yards out and shot 10 in very short order.

During this time the predator population(coyotes, bobcats, hawks, owls, badgers, snakes etal) grew tremendously! Grounds owls were everywhere, hawks were dive bombing quail and rattle snakes were in the trees over the packrat nests(yes I have a picture).

The next year the plague hit and the rodent numbers plummeted. One year later you could drive the whole ranch and not see but 5-6 rabbits.

When you grow up in Odessa there's not much to do. I remember many nights shooting a brick of 22's just to watch them die. I would be willing to guess I killed way over 10,000 jackrabbits by age 18, conservatively. I've even had some great "Dates" killing rabbits. Back then I knew enough people to have over 200,000 acres to quail, varmint, and rabbit hunt on anytime I wanted to. Sparrows are a great way to learn with a BB gun but nothing will hone your skills shooting running game like jackrabbits with a 22.

In high school my grandparents lived in the Sandhills and my grandmother always stayed up late. Many nights my buddies would want to drive by Nanna's house and see if the kitchen light was still on. If it was we could stop in and she'd cook us breakfast after a night of drinking beer and killing rabbits. There was always plenty of room on the floor to sleep at Nan's house.

https://terriermandotcom.blogspot.com/2012/03/when-jack-rabbuts-became-scapegoats.html

Did you catch the part where they said they killed 6 thousand JR's in one section! That's more than one per square yard. I'm having a hard time buying that one.