Ok getting back to your post coursing hare is an amazing sport hence its popularity still even though the ban is in place. I understand the population needs preserving but in all fairness if you been around lurchers all your adult life then you will appriciate that it takes a fair dog to go out and not only course but kill hares on a regular basis espically round my area. The "chav bling" folk as you have described I doubt have the dogs to do any real damage to the hare population, unless they are lamping them all the time that I have a problem with.