Pre ban mountain \ white hare

[Coursing mad 24 874]

What's peoples experiences on running mountain whites hare pre ban . easy quarry or good test compared too other hares ??

[fireman 11,153]

The brown hare is in a different league to the mountain hare,the mountain hare can only run along the tracks in the heather where as brown hare has a whole field to twist and turn in..

[Guest vin]

Too easy for a decent dog. After the 1st one, it becomes rather unsavory.

 

[nothernlite 18,137]

Piss easy on the Heather get them on the softer hill grass they can run but no test for a dog  good for young dogs 

Edited March 3, 2018 by nothernlite

[Havelightforcewilltravel 417]

Lot lads started coursing pups off on these but take average adult dog up and won’t miss many.

[grompz 706]

ran lots of blue hares pre ban, in the70s and 80s,with different types of lurchers on vast and hard terrain,to be honest they are a not in the same league as a good strong winter brown hare, the white hare is a lot smaller, a lighter hare in weight  for dogs to carry,nowhere near stamina as the brown hare,and when really pushed hard by a lurcher would often hit the ground like a rabbit on amountain side,but saying this I have seen some wonderful courses on them going on for maybe 5 mins,the dog and hare, ,running in slow motion mode , used to be my early sunday morning ritual running the wonderful white mountain hare, with my deerhoundx greys,sadly where there used to be loads, you can walk miles now and hardly see one, they made awonderful sight springing up and running on the heather moors in full winter colour, great days and great memories.

[tatsblisters 10,735]

I used to enjoy running them tbh and they were good to get dogs fit on then for running brown hares I also found them better eating than the brown hare I honestly think its the environment that they habituate that's more of a test to some dogs than the hare itself as I have seen some fast type lurchers come to greif wile running them in the past.