What size for hare

[boyo 1,398]

i run lurchers and hate to see hares being shot just doesnt seem right to me but before anyone starts on at me its just the way i feel would never say anyone else shouldnt do it because each to their own sport just has a lot of shooters would be disgusted at one of my lurchers taking a pheasant off the floor. as i say each to their own glad you had a good day.

[riohog 5,805]

yeah ive been hearing of big numbers of hares shot latelly .hundreds on some estates , and keepers ar being told to knock thm down , whn they see them , on the pretext it will keep the dog lads away !!!!, begining to wonder wether this is the start of the end for the ,,brown hare

[North Country Boy 0]

  On 23/02/2010 at 10:05, riohog said:

yeah ive been hearing of big numbers of hares shot latelly .hundreds on some estates , and keepers ar being told to knock thm down , whn they see them , on the pretext it will keep the dog lads away !!!!, begining to wonder wether this is the start of the end for the ,,brown hare

 

I only know of 3 places that do a hare cull, and i certainly dont know any shoot that is allowed to shoot them as they are ground game and most shoots dont let you take ground game. There is some truth in that numbers are being kept down to keep the dog lads away from the land but i doubt we will see the end of the brown hare, theres still plenty of them about.

[riohog 5,805]

  On 24/02/2010 at 13:03, North Country Boy said:

  On 23/02/2010 at 10:05, riohog said:

yeah ive been hearing of big numbers of hares shot latelly .hundreds on some estates , and keepers ar being told to knock thm down , whn they see them , on the pretext it will keep the dog lads away !!!!, begining to wonder wether this is the start of the end for the ,,brown hare

 

I only know of 3 places that do a hare cull, and i certainly dont know any shoot that is allowed to shoot them as they are ground game and most shoots dont let you take ground game. There is some truth in that numbers are being kept down to keep the dog lads away from the land but i doubt we will see the end of the brown hare, theres still plenty of them about.

im talking about about shooting hares on a hare drive not on a driven bird day yes i agree you would not shoot ground game on a bird day , you certainly didnt on the shoot i keepered

[JOHNBOY 18]

26 " at the shoulder

[danebrewer10 6]

I have seen, but not shot these up close and they're not small, I would say no 5 is a tad on the small side, I would go for no4 minimum, but ideally No3, if they're as tough as rabbits, and they'll be panicked and the adrenalin will be pumping, you'll want those larger pellets, charge weight, probably 32-34 grams or 36 if you're not shooting too many, then you could open up the chokes and have a bigger pattern whilst maintaining the same pellet density...

 

Cheers

DB