weigths of game

[whin 463]

after two or three decades and thinking back i wonderd if youse have had ,heavy weights and light weigths of both species, localy ive had roe up to fifty pound with head feet and guts out rabbits on the fur ungutted 4 and a qaurter pound, hares s nine and a half pounds and over , a fox or a wolf twenty nine pounds , i put a pic of the fox years ago in the edrd he was a biggy and was the dogs first fox it was a tussle i broke my walking stick on him, but the dog gave a good account he was only twelve month but a little battler , localy big deer roe , and largish hares but up the hill rabbits out weigh the rabbits localy ,they are all small sand rabbits or beach rabbs its funny the change of land etc with in a mile or two ,changes rabbits to the extreme , saw some bit forest reds sikas munties but was never there long enough to weigh them all the best

[juckler123 707]

your dead right about rabbits lean grazing does make a difference in size as they are limited to how far they can travel ive seen some humongus hares to i live near an experimental farm where they grow different types of crops one hare was taken their by a bunch of kids was a monster but they didnt get to keep it as word got out and the ministry men came and took it i know all the hares round their are a couple of pound heavier than normal but this one was unreal

[whin 463]

ferreted all the coast line locally, until i got wheels and what a diffrence from these rabbs down the beach colour more grey and smaller more tricky to the ones up along the high country moors borders region ,same with the foxes localy there not many but alot bigger than the town foxes etc ,some big old boar badgers localy ,found some road casultys forty pounds one of them was , i know some one who shot a roe 53 pound never heard bigger, in the pine forests deer only go up to 35 localy in weight but can run on the heather etclike hell

[mole trapper 1,693]

hi there, cant say i have ever had a huge example of any species, but what i have noticed this year is the amount of fat in the deer especially fallow,most of them you can barely make out the kidneys where they are so full of it.suppose it must be the amount of food around this year.one other thing is a rabbit job i did recently on the coast there was one area the rabbits were eating a lot of gorse roots and bark,the fat inside of them was bright yellowy orange,weird as hell ,they looked radioactive!!!

[Berkutchi 0]

Around 4 years ago i saw a Saluki longdog take a huge November hare in my part of the fens,it was huge and when held by me by the hind hocks its front feet touched the floor as it was stretched out and im 5ft 10!,

it weighed in at almost 11 and a half pounds!.Never seen one as big before and the rest average out round here are 8lb to 9lb in mid winter.

Cought 4lb plus buck rabbits in the past but to be fare they were very obese with yellow fat around the belly and neck.

[inan 841]

after two or three decades and thinking back i wonderd if youse have had ,heavy weights and light weigths of both species, localy ive had roe up to fifty pound with head feet and guts out rabbits on the fur ungutted 4 and a qaurter pound, hares s nine and a half pounds and over , a fox or a wolf twenty nine pounds , i put a pic of the fox years ago in the edrd he was a biggy and was the dogs first fox it was a tussle i broke my walking stick on him, but the dog gave a good account he was only twelve month but a little battler , localy big deer roe , and largish hares but up the hill rabbits out weigh the rabbits localy ,they are all small sand rabbits or beach rabbs its funny the change of land etc with in a mile or two ,changes rabbits to the extreme , saw some bit forest reds sikas munties but was never there long enough to weigh them all the best

Had a 10lb jill hare and a 23lbs dog fox,but I know others whohave taken bigger foxes ,we dont get many Deer down here so usually have to travel for them.