Some nice work there. One of the first rabbits I ever shot was a full jet-black one and I got it right under the throat/chin and it was a luckily, a clean hit. Never thought to preserve/keep the skin. Always thought rabbits were rabbits and a black one was, common! Now I know better.
I missed a jet black rabbit once, it was beside a regular one in the mouth of a hole and I thought it was just the shadow until I shot its its friend and it didn't move. Then it buggered off while I was reloading.
Have shot a pure white and a white+chestnut saddleback though which must be pretty rare too.
Nice.
I once sat up in a seat after a roe buck in the east of England in a wood named Black Rabbit Warren. I didn’t think anything of it until a black rabbit wandered down the ride. Made me smile.
Years before that I shot a completely white (not albino) rabbit in the Pentland Hills outside Edinburgh. Looked good in my Black lab’s mouth, but I don’t know where the photo I took went. Felt a bit bad after shooting it.
We currently have about 10 black rabbits on our 3 acre lifestyle block.
There has been a black male (we think!) hanging around for a couple of years, and now he must have got to the stage of mating with his own offspring as the recent litters (?) are mostly black (e.g. 4 black, 1 brown)
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