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Treacodactyl
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 06 6:00 pm Post subject:
Another question, if taste isn't a reason why you don't eat them would you eat farm hare?

Bodger

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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 06 6:12 pm Post subject:
Rory You need to get out into the countryside and take sometime to watch them . Once you had observed them, you wouldn't have to ask what the big deal was.

cab

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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 06 7:44 pm Post subject:

RoryD wrote:

I don't a. do any shooting b. want to offend anyone c. have any strong view either way.

Is a hare not just a big rabbit? Why is a Hare beautiful and a Rabbit not?

Scarcity aside whats the big deal?

Hare is a much bigger animal, different in behaviour and appearance to a rabbit. Much darker meat, more intense, and butchering it is quite a job, compared with butchering a rabbit.

In my opinion both are beautiful animals. I'll eat either, though, if I know they're wild and from a sustainable source (farming rabbits, I mean to say, why?)

Snap Cap

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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 06 8:02 pm Post subject:
A rabbit is a beautiful animal and I have the utmost respect for it as quarry and that respect should carry on when it comes to butchering it and finally cooking it.

Jonnyboy

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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 06 8:07 pm Post subject:
From an ethical perspective I have no problem with shooting and eating Hare, IF the population can support it. However, I would be much more wary about shooting one than a rabbit as they are far larger, faster and IMHO harder to kill cleanly unless you have the right tools for the job.

Snap Cap

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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 06 8:15 pm Post subject:

Jonnyboy wrote:

From an ethical perspective I have no problem with shooting and eating Hare, IF the population can support it.

However, I would be much more wary about shooting one than a rabbit as they are far larger, faster and IMHO harder to kill cleanly unless you have the right tools for the job.

A full power legal limit 12ftIlb Air rifle will easily bowl over a Hare if hit behind the eye and below the ear. After all they are just a big bunny. But would not risk a shot over 25-30 yards.

Jonnyboy

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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 06 8:17 pm Post subject:
If you can get within 25yards of a hare then your fieldcraft isn't poor by any means.

Snap Cap

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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 06 8:21 pm Post subject:
I have never placed the cross hairs on Hare's head but have watched them and sooner all later playing hares will come close enough for a shot. Its basically a waiting game. Stalking a Hare I would not even bother as his early warning systems are top notch plus he has the added bonus of height.

RoryD

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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 06 8:37 pm Post subject:

Jonnyboy wrote:

If you can get within 25yards of a hare then your fieldcraft isn't poor by any means.

you've been drinking. its ok its friday night after all but you've definitely been drinking

Treacodactyl
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 06 8:49 pm Post subject:

Snap Cap wrote:

A full power legal limit 12ftIlb Air rifle will easily bowl over a Hare if hit behind the eye and below the ear. After all they are just a big bunny. But would not risk a shot over 25-30 yards.

BASC advise a centrefire rifle only, not even a .22LR rimfire, https://www.basc.org.uk/content/riflescalibreland

Jonnyboy

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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 06 9:17 pm Post subject:

RoryD wrote:

Jonnyboy wrote:

If you can get within 25yards of a hare then your fieldcraft isn't poor by any means.

you've been drinking. its ok its friday night after all but you've definitely been drinking

eh?

dpack

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Posted: Sat Aug 12, 06 12:01 am Post subject:
once 10 ft ,yum ,not again .

Snap Cap

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Posted: Sat Aug 12, 06 5:46 am Post subject:
10ft! was you invisible? or was the hare already dead?

RoryD

Joined: 02 Jun 2005
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Posted: Sat Aug 12, 06 7:16 am Post subject:

RoryD wrote:

Jonnyboy wrote:

If you can get within 25yards of a hare then your fieldcraft isn't poor by any means.

you've been drinking. its ok its friday night after all but you've definitely been drinking

Sorry. In retrospect that looks a bit rude. I've never seen the word fieldcraft used in polite company before. My apologies.

I think it was I who had been drinking.

@Calli

Joined: 03 Jul 2005
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Location: Galway

Posted: Sat Aug 12, 06 7:52 am Post subject:
Hares are plentiful here, but wouldn't shoot/eat as not as numerous as bunnies. As to getting close to them you can walk right past them and hardly move but our border terrier gives them a run for their money - took him 4 hrs to get home the other day!!

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