It has bee 40 years since I lived in the panhandle , but I remember the rabbits out there much larger than what I see
here in East Texas. To Me, all the rabbits I see in Cherokee county look half grown.

Is my memory just just playing tricks on me ? or are the panhandle rabbits bigger ?

Mo

Panhandle rabbits are mostly jack rabbits, not cottontails, no?

I grew up in Borger , which sits on the edge of the Canadian river breaks. We had both cottontails and jackrabbits.
Also had both blue and bob white quail. I have not seen a blue quail since 82 ,

MO

The rabbits near Herford seemed pretty average size. A farmer that let us hunt is property showed us a trick to get a mess of rabbits and never fire a shot. He had lots
of irrigation pipe laying around. He had us look inside a few of the pipes until we saw a rabbit resting inside. Put an Oil can in one end and someone with gloves on at the other end and then tilt the pipe upward until the rabbit slid to the bottom, where someone was waiting. We brought home a mess of rabbits several times after that.

I'm seeing a few cottontails on our place in East Texas. Saw several young ones mowing last fall with a tractor and brush hog. Coyotes and Bobcats take one when the chance comes along I'm sure.

I live in Clarendon and the cottontails around here seem rather average and do not hold a candle to those "swamp" rabbits in/around TXK.