The hunter is identified in his model sheet as "Tex's Coon". The hunter fills the role usually associated with Elmer Fudd; this was one of four Bugs Bunny short films of 1941 which have him facing a different hunter each time (the others were "Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt", in which Bugs faced an Indian; "The Heckling Hare", in which Bugs faces Willoughby the Dog; and "Wabbit Twouble", which pits Bugs against Fudd). A later scholar, John Stausbauch, described the hunter in terms of racial stereotype: as a "shufflin', big lipped, sleepy-eyed country coon," who cannot resist a game of craps. The Stepin Fetchit-like character has his shuffling and mumbling exaggerated for comic effect.