Originally Posted by jallencrockett
The dogs were owned by Albert Groce. I was a liitle confused as they referred to the big rabbits we were shooting as BUCKS. To me we always referred to rabbits as cottontails or swamp bucks / canecutters. Never new till I did some research that canecutters are cottontails. There are over 20 species of cottontails with canecutters being the largest. We were shooting full grown cottontails.. predomiately males in the upland area that all weighed about 3 pounds each. I never knew how much a big "cottontail" looks like a small canecutter. They definitely didnt look like peter cottontail.



We always called a canecutter a buck and a cottontail a sage.

Only way I know to tell the difference between a small buck and big sage is look for the black spot between the ears.
The bucks, or canecutters, or swampers, whatever you want to call them always have black spot between their ears.