The Hare Situation

[BORDERSCOT 3,816]

Coursed many keepers ground in my time pal, Holcombe being one of em, late 1950s, day and night, lurchers i ran then, and was my closest experience of being copt, i could sit here and tell some outstanding tales of my experiences in the field, and still at it with my humble whippet, not the invisible man, just good at what i do, my secret, is always work alone, and always will, and in all that time, ive never, and never will leave a dog of mine behind, its in the blood, you either have it, or you dont

 

[buster gonads 862]

Coursed many keepers ground in my time pal, Holcombe being one of em, late 1950s, day and night, lurchers i ran then, and was my closest experience of being copt, i could sit here and tell some outstanding tales of my experiences in the field, and still at it with my humble whippet, not the invisible man, just good at what i do, my secret, is always work alone, and always will, and in all that time, ive never, and never will leave a dog of mine behind, its in the blood, you either have it, or you dont

Ive never been caught either and i,ve done alot of day work on Hares etc, i usualy worked alone or kept to a couple of trusted friends, didnt shout about it in the pub either, if they dont know you,v been on thier land they arnt looking for you, somthing todays Subaru boys should take note of, buster.

[Country Joe 1,411]

Used to be some great fields up by my local river 20 years ago you could walk these fields and always kick up a few Hares,

last year, and about a fortnight a go i went to the same fields and they are bare, have never seen a Hare, heard they were getting lamped 12 months of the year, and there is a lot of Buzzards about, don't know much about them, but i suppose they will take Leverets.

[Neoleaver 55]

Used to be some great fields up by my local river 20 years ago you could walk these fields and always kick up a few Hares,

last year, and about a fortnight a go i went to the same fields and they are bare, have never seen a Hare, heard they were getting lamped 12 months of the year, and there is a lot of Buzzards about, don't know much about them, but i suppose they will take Leverets.

They look big and mean enough Joe, but they mostly feed on insects,small rodents,dead carcasses, they dont have the strength in the talons of say a Goshawk, more of an oppotunist/scavenger, thats why they do so well,tons of em about like you said. Mate reckons he's seen one giving a lambing ewe a hell of a time tho..peckin at the arse end.

Do they not call em 'tourist eagles' up your way!

Edited April 22, 2013 by Neoleaver

[Wxm 1,638]

Went for a stroll Friday with the pup and seen 1 hare, been going up there for a good while now well about 10 or 12 years every now and again and only seen 3. 1 being Friday, now I've moved closer to the area and have something to walk I'll be going up more often and will have to invest in som binoculars

[pip1968 2,490]

 

craigluckyjihad.im glad to read you got plenty of hares.being a old fogey i only like my home ground. only time i went courseing on strange ground got chased in the eighties brockett hall and had to leave a dog behind .

no matter what happened I wouldn't be leaving my dog behing I'd rather get a beating off the keepers or farmer, no proper dog man would leave a dog

 

say you have a few dogs aswell as other hunting gear and a car which will also get taken if your caught,just ask fuji of here what happened to him

[Carraghs Gem 1,675]

Normally my area is hopping with hares this time of year... This year ive seen 2 no lads coursing or lamping them either.

[BORDERSCOT 3,816]

If you walk the walk,.in a serious way, and freelance on the best and most juicy places,...you up the odds of a pull....There is no way, that you can avoid being captured,.. forever...and mathematically,.the more mouching you do,..the higher the risk of walking into trouble..

 

Personaly,.I feel that life, is far too short and I'll run my dogs, as and when,..while I still can

 

Ain't that a fact.......

[fitchet 788]

Still plenty both on my permissions and other places.had a walk a couple of evenings ago saw 4 in the first field and atleast a dozen in the woodland.

[nothernlite 18,076]

 

 

craigluckyjihad.im glad to read you got plenty of hares.being a old fogey i only like my home ground. only time i went courseing on strange ground got chased in the eighties brockett hall and had to leave a dog behind .

no matter what happened I wouldn't be leaving my dog behing I'd rather get a beating off the keepers or farmer, no proper dog man would leave a dog

 

say you have a few dogs aswell as other hunting gear and a car which will also get taken if your caught,just ask fuji of here what happened to him

 

So do you think that stills justifies leaving your dog behind ?

[Country Joe 1,411]

having hunted them years ago, as ive got older, i now like to see them, and being now a rabbiting man, ive no interest in chasing or catching.

[border lad 1,047]

the Hares are thin on the ground down my way, due to lampers,shooters, lads driving the land, this past season my dog done more Roe, than Hares only due to the fact the Hares are scarce, and to add modern farming machinery is takeing its toll on leverets + weather, the Farmers attitude, shoot the Hares, clean the place off and No more damage to crops and fences, I could take you around a dozen places were the fence has been pulled down lowered so a sad dog can get over, and the amount of top strands cut with wire cutters, times has changed, This mating season off the Hares, very few were seen, I used to love see the Hares box, we could see half a dozen Hares, in every second field, but that is a thing of the past,

[Wxm 1,638]

 

 

 

craigluckyjihad.im glad to read you got plenty of hares.being a old fogey i only like my home ground. only time i went courseing on strange ground got chased in the eighties brockett hall and had to leave a dog behind .

 

no matter what happened I wouldn't be leaving my dog behing I'd rather get a beating off the keepers or farmer, no proper dog man would leave a dog

say you have a few dogs aswell as other hunting gear and a car which will also get taken if your caught,just ask fuji of here what happened to him

So do you think that stills justifies leaving your dog behind ?

Hmmm would it not depend on a lot of factors, previous for 1 and reciving a stretch if you was caught a that time ect if I was unlucky to get caught enough times to be on the fine line of reciving a free holiday and missing out on even 1 second of time with my family if caught again then I myself would probably givin leg and hoping muttly would follow.

 

But I don't get myself in to the situation that may make me decide on which is more important to me, but unless I've walked in someone's shoes that has had to unfortunately leave a dog behind then I wouldn't be able to judge them for doing so

[weasle 1,119]

Personally find the best way to find a hare is to take a pup or a dog coming back from a injury(any dog you dont want running),for a nice quite walk you can guarantee one will jump up under there nose.

Like been said a lot round here seem to be in forestrys ect.If you didnt have a dog you would think they were not there.

[PoshPikey 560]

Well - i we are seeing more hares this year than for years and years - i think it might have something to do with the wet spring last year meant that the silage wasn't cut until later so the leverets survived better. I though that the bad winter might have nobbled them but we are seeing more boxing and moving around than for years and years. It bodes well for the back end of the year.