I found a 6kg white-tailed jackrabbit track

[Freaky V]

And I looked around for more tracks, found a couple from the same rabbit. Also I found need zone of some kind for that rabbit. I sat there for over 5 real life hours waiting for the sob and never saw any rabbits. I did have a bull moose show up and lay down about 25 meters from me for the longest time, but never saw any rabbits.
Am I doing something wrong? How the hell are you suppose to track a rabbit in this game?

[KaiEr]

Not sure of your experience level, so excuse me if some of these questions are basic.

Did you check the time on the need zone? When you first discover it, and if you go to the map and pass your mouse over it, it should tell you the times that they are used. If you were there at any other time, you could sit there for 15 hours in-game and not see them.

Was it an open area? The need zone isn't a pinpoint accurate location. You might find the need zone "track" in a very specific location, but the zone itself is larger than that one spot. It may have come in and you didn't see it.

My suggestion, whenever you find trophy tracks, is to go into stalking mode over ambush. Rabbits are a bit pesky because of the rarity of tracks, but since you did find some, you do know what direction it was going.

I do some unorthodox stalking for rabbits that I know people will consider crazy, but it works for me and I find it extremely enjoyable:

KaiEr69's extreme rabbit stalking tutorial :D

(With tracking turned on)

Track the group (warren), not the individual. Tracking an individual rabbit is useless. Individual rabbits rarely leave footprints, and the distance between their other tracks (compared to their body size and movement) are few and far between.

If you follow the group, you know the one you are hunting is going to be with them. So instead of following this sporadic, hard to find trail of one rabbit, follow the river of tracks made by the group.

Rabbits do not have a huge range so you are more likely to run into them and spook them than you are other animals. Tracking them is best with slow crouching or crawling. Since crawling puts you down where the tracks are, it makes it easier to spot the next set of highlighted tracks (in my opinion)... and it's just more fun/relaxing for me.

Since disturbed vegetation (if you have it enabled) looks the same for all animals, try to keep it to the "poo". I'll highlight a poo, lie down and crawl either to the next highlighted poo and/or disturbed vegetation. If I can't see another one highlighted, I'll crawl to the next rabbit poo (in the same direction) and continue the same way. Pretty soon you will see another need zone of some sort. 90% of the time that is where they will be (even if the tracks are "very old" as I approach).

If you use your binoculars while crawling, you will be able to hear them about 20y before you get to them. You can pop up into crouch mode without spooking them, glass for them and try to spot the specific one you are hunting, or if you can't see them you can look for a good vantage point to crawl to and take them.

Just be sure to do a slow crawl and keep the noise down - their ears are huge for a reason.

Take the one you want first. You can take out the whole group of you are patient. Take one, wait for them to come back and for their status to go back to "Calm", take another one and repeat. If you spook them, they will not travel far and you can simply follow them the same way.

And an added bonus to hunting rabbits this way is that you can get extremely close to other animals while doing it.

[Freaky V]

the zone I found didnt show up on the map, I was there well before, during and after the time stated that that animal was there. There was no herd of tracks with it to follow. And the wind is so loud it makes it hard to track those smaller animals.
I dont have disturbed veg yet.
Thanks for your help though!