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JACK RABBIT DRIVES
Half-day hunts once brought hundreds to Manteca killing 1,000+ rabbits each time
jack rabbit
Jack rabbits, like this one, a century ago were killed in organized drives in the Manteca area due to the damage they inflicted on crops.
Imagine, if you will, close to 1,000 people gathering to march eight miles across an area four miles wide to kill jack rabbits. Such “drives” happened a number of times between 1916 and 1935 in the Manteca, Ripon, and Escalon area.