The Hare Situation

[stealthy1 3,964]

Dont know if its the same up your way lads, but here where theres not so many badgers, there seems to be more hares, but where there is high numbers of badgers in one area, I see no hares in that same area?

[fitchet 788]

 

 

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

I've never deserted man dog or ferret when out and I never will. If you haven't got the balls to see the job through you shouldnt be at it simple ...... Edited April 22, 2013 by fitchet

[running addiction 207]

 

 

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

I'm guessing you have left a dog behind then? I know what happens when you get caught and I still wouldn't leave a dog

[nothernlite 18,089]

paulus.one of the reasons i gave up lurchers some time ago .is you canott chase whaht is not there.in 1970 when i went first went coursing i never thought things could get this bad hare wise.there are plenty of deer and a few rabitts but deer just get you into to much trouble .if the mobile phone had not been invented things would be a lot diffferent.nowdays any oik out in the countryside only has to make a call on his ten pound tesco mobile and before you know whaht happend .its the police in a four wheel drive and the bloody police helicopter overhead .if there no hares its pointless haveing a good courseing dog

well get yourself a rabbit dog and move with the times after all hare coursing illegal and if you get chased you will just run away and leave your dog

[J Darcy 5,871]

I always think it's ironic how some owners expect their dog to go beyond the call of duty for them and yet the expectation isn't reciprocated.

 

A true lurcherman always has a lurcher, if there's no game where you live you get in the car. I am very familiar with BG's area and I'm here to say that there's a plague of gear there, least from what I seen,over the course of many years, that's why lads travel three or four hours from the north to run their dog, week in, week out........

Each to their own I guess.....

[Huan72 687]

I could no more leave my dog than cut off my own arm......I would front King Kong for her, I'm not trying to sound big thats just the way it is, she trusts me implicitly and i am not gonna betray that.

[paulus 26]

I always think it's ironic how some owners expect their dog to go beyond the call of duty for them and yet the expectation isn't reciprocated.

 

A true lurcherman always has a lurcher, if there's no game where you live you get in the car. I am very familiar with BG's area and I'm here to say that there's a plague of gear there, least from what I seen,over the course of many years, that's why lads travel three or four hours from the north to run their dog, week in, week out........

Each to their own I guess.....

ive spied the odd bit from the window of the motor, whilst just passing through like

[Tiny 7 1,694]

 

I always think it's ironic how some owners expect their dog to go beyond the call of duty for them and yet the expectation isn't reciprocated.

 

A true lurcherman always has a lurcher, if there's no game where you live you get in the car. I am very familiar with BG's area and I'm here to say that there's a plague of gear there, least from what I seen,over the course of many years, that's why lads travel three or four hours from the north to run their dog, week in, week out........

Each to their own I guess.....

ive spied the odd bit from the window of the motor, whilst just passing through like

 

:laugh: He's a window shopper

 

 

 

 

 

 

Like's been said there game around. Find it then keep it too yourself and enjoy...

[nothernlite 18,089]

 

 

I always think it's ironic how some owners expect their dog to go beyond the call of duty for them and yet the expectation isn't reciprocated.

 

A true lurcherman always has a lurcher, if there's no game where you live you get in the car. I am very familiar with BG's area and I'm here to say that there's a plague of gear there, least from what I seen,over the course of many years, that's why lads travel three or four hours from the north to run their dog, week in, week out........

Each to their own I guess.....

ive spied the odd bit from the window of the motor, whilst just passing through like

 

:laugh: He's a window shopper

 

Aye in the anne summers shops

 

 

 

 

Like's been said there game around. Find it then keep it too yourself and enjoy...

 

[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

 

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

 

if thats what he wanted to do,who am i to judge

[tommy9 13]

Hares are sticking more to cover now with the amount raptors about that's why you not seeing them in the field,s

I totally agree buzzards everywhere hares used to be

[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

I'm guessing you have left a dog behind then? I know what happens when you get caught and I still wouldn't leave a dog

 

never left a dog at all but when ive been in situations were others could get nicked ive told them to get off and ill take the rap as its my car that come on top would you do that

[nothernlite 18,089]

 

 

 

 

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

I'm guessing you have left a dog behind then? I know what happens when you get caught and I still wouldn't leave a dog

 

never left a dog at all but when ive been in situations were others could get nicked ive told them to get off and ill take the rap as its my car that come on top would you do that

 

well would think that would be the odvious thing to do because your caught any way with you car reg lol

[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

I'm guessing you have left a dog behind then? I know what happens when you get caught and I still wouldn't leave a dog

 

never left a dog at all but when ive been in situations were others could get nicked ive told them to get off and ill take the rap as its my car that come on top would you do that

 

well would think that would be the odvious thing to do because your caught any way with you car reg lol

 

funny thing was it turned out to be a dog walker with a blue flashing light on the dog on a dark country lane

[chester 147]

 

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!

 

buzzards can and do take hares last season we disturbed a buzzard off an adult hare while on a walk the hare was still alive but had the eyes pecked out 4 lads witnessed this .