Shooting hares to be banned for 9 months of the year.

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What else has changed since the Victorian era that could have had an impact on Hare numbers... the motor vehicle. It's not us shooters reducing their numbers by any measurable degree, it's the reduced habitat combined with the number of bloody cars on the roads for God's sake... so let's ban cars during the closed season also, see how popular that idea is with Labour voters.
 
cjm1066 said:
Brown rats next, protect them in the breeding season. This is a certain vote winner across the sectors of society who can't think thhrough the wider consequences of their actions.
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Hares are not Vermin though they are game and should always should be unless a special permit is issued. Just like it was when shooting folks sat in parliament in good numbers !
Rats are the biggest most prolific vermin in the UK BIG DIFFERENCE !
 
BenBhoy said:
The people/group's claiming that hare numbers are low is because they're not seeing them. You don't get many hares in a sitting room or city centre, so numbers must be low.
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Indeed
Bowland blades said:
Hares are not damaging grazing , this is obvious if a person takes the time to watch ! What a hare does is after each bite is take another bound or more then takes the next bite . Rabbits ? totally different they eat in one spot till its bald and it wont grow back.
The Hare is in a period of decline and unlike the Rabbit - It is not Vermin ( though it can kill a lot of unprotected new sapling trees)
For the above and more I stopped shooting Hares unless its 1. Going to be used ( for more than say trap baits for fox etc ) 2, its in season and will be eaten . Hares ain't really sporting when rifles are used . Its also a creature that has always been around in the UK countryside
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hares are in decline ??? I’ve never seen as many as I have the last ten years and everyone I speak to says the same of anything rabbits are in decline from what I see
 
Loads of them around up here but Brown hares already protected between 1st Feb through to 30th Sep & shooting of Mountain Hares was closed completely except under individual license in 2021.

Loads of them on my permissions & generally leave them alone as I’m not a fan of the meat either. They are however an absolute menace to plantations & have shot the hem at landowners request to protect forestry.
 
C h r i s said:
What else has changed since the Victorian era that could have had an impact on Hare numbers... the motor vehicle.
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'Twas a time if you read some of the old hunting literature that the Victorians that indulged in such thought that the mania for railways everywhere would be the death of their fox hunting. But alas 'tis modern farming methods, same as with the grey partridge, that were likely one of the greatest causes of harm to hares.
 
enfieldspares said:
'Twas a time if you read some of the old hunting literature that the Victorians that indulged in such thought that the mania for railways everywhere would be the death of their fox hunting. But alas 'tis modern farming methods, same as with the grey partridge, that were likely one of the greatest causes of harm to hares.
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That maybe true but there definitely no shortage of them
 
enfieldspares said:
'Twas a time if you read some of the old hunting literature that the Victorians that indulged in such thought that the mania for railways everywhere would be the death of their fox hunting. But alas 'tis modern farming methods, same as with the grey partridge, that were likely one of the greatest causes of harm to hares.
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Absolutely, its a combination of factors, England has changed over the last 125 years - however its insane to state that any significant decline, whether real or otherwise, is a result of us lot! ..........."approximately 200,000 hares are killed in organised, commercial shoots during February and March" = BS
 
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C h r i s said:
What else has changed since the Victorian era that could have had an impact on Hare numbers... the motor vehicle. It's not us shooters reducing their numbers by any measurable degree, it's the reduced habitat combined with the number of bloody cars on the roads for God's sake... so let's ban cars during the closed season also, see how popular that idea is with Labour voters.
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Hare nest above ground, badgers really don’t help their numbers.
 
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