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thwingers
Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2010 1:19pm
Post Subject:
Hares.
Hi`We have just had three hare shoots round my area over a total area of about 6000 acres, about 800 hares where shot.This seems a lot and i don`t know when it was last shot but every one was surprised,Any comments ?
Ian
Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2010 1:22pm
Post Subject:
Hares.
hi, an estate i used to go on shot 3 to 4 hundred every year and there was still plenty left on there , i think keepered land is ideal as they get very little diturbance un likie land with public access. alb ,Ian.
thwingers
Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2010 1:58pm
Post Subject:
Hares.
Yes Ian I think your right,it does sound a lot but it just one day a year if that.I saw three the next day on one field that was shot.Jez.
Ian
Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 12:43am
Post Subject:
Hares.
hi, jez. we use to course on there and always had 40 to 50 courses the week after the shoot, we
would catch the ones that where full of shot and all the fit ones got away , alb, Ian.
thwingers
Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 7:18pm
Post Subject:
Hares.
Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 8:30pm
Post Subject:
Hares.
Hi`Ian I saw my old mate today and we got talking about some of the subjects I had read on the forum,he told me about two unmarried brothers that farmed 200 acres on top of the wolds in about 1955 both in there sixtys by then. On thier farm next to the one he worked there where loads of hares,they never shot anything,they would say you could starve to death eating old hare?
They kept two big collies that where nearly black and used to working cattle, the odd eggs they got made sure no foxes ever got near the farmhouse,jack russells took care of most other pests.True? like to think so!!Jez.
boyten
Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 9:10pm
Post Subject:
Hares.
foxes like to hoover up leveretts. so well keepered ground should show higher hare numbers.
