CookM
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Now that is proper scoff,one down from Maltese Rabbit casserole.
Shooting hares to be banned for 9 months of the year.
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shakey jake
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try hank shaws sardinian hare. really simple and good
C h r i s
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Yes, was eating Maltese rabbit casserole in Valetta last month, bloody brilliant.
CookM
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My Aunt married a Maltese guy,half Morroccan,an avid hunter.
When he came to the UK in '87,I took him pigeon shooting on rape fields in the snow,he loved it.
They thought it was a good day to shoot a vulture on passage from Africa,but they would shoot anything
sako751sg
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He does seem consistent i'll give him that.
Rob-E
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I was talking about the last conservative rule that started with Cameron, and fuelled the austerity crisis which we’re now witnessing. Along with the aforementioned cuts to our Blue light and military.
But more importantly it was in response to the post I quoted about the lack of the police force and being unable to combat wildlife crime.
We have hundreds of hares on my permission because we keep on top of the foxes and it's great to see them, We also have one small area where there is a pocket of rabbits but not many and over the last few years the rabbit population isn't getting any bigger even though they're not shot or ferreted
And what are the current government doing to help with this ? By my reckoning they’ve been in power over 18 months when does the “ blame the tories “ game end ?
Where?
A lot of wailing about Tory austerity has taken place. Have the wailers ever looked at the government spending figures covering the period of "austerity"
many places ! like right here in the Forrest of Bowland numbers have really suffered , though we still see them every year for about the last five years or so . Previously we where tripping over them ! They certainly had some sort of infection some sort of bug and i have seen them acting like we might with a dose of flu - Very little spaying happens on the land where i am pretty sure its some kind of bug that's effecting them . I used to bring a guy on with his hawks and shot a few Hares myself but hares do no real damage to the upland grazing , indeed the way a Hare feeds your not going to see much if any depletion of grazing by Hares.
Not against taking a couple of hares myself , i would again IF /WHEN there is an up-turn in the numbers . Its wonderful meat when cooked correctly
reiver
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Alan used to live just up the road from me
When he retired up to Cumbria. Back in the 1990s I did quite a bit of work for him .
Where are the rest of these "many places"?
My experience, and that of others on this thread, is that hares are numerous. Their numbers have grown noticeably everywhere i have been doing night work this last few years.
Of course no one is really grappling with the fact that they’re not even native…
Ignoring that, the legislation is based on assumptions about hare numbers that are 25 years out of date.
Certainly any long term data set I’ve seen shows that they’re stable or increasing almost everywhere. They’ve done very well in many areas where rabbits have been wiped out by VHD.
I also don’t really understand all the romanticisation that goes with hares. They’re just a fairly standard lagomorph and taste much better than rabbits.
Ignoring that, the legislation is based on assumptions about hare numbers that are 25 years out of date.
Certainly any long term data set I’ve seen shows that they’re stable or increasing almost everywhere. They’ve done very well in many areas where rabbits have been wiped out by VHD.
I also don’t really understand all the romanticisation that goes with hares. They’re just a fairly standard lagomorph and taste much better than rabbits.
Given Labour's record on delivering its manifesto pledges, I wouldn't hold my breath. Loads of hares here, the farmers seem to like them so I don't shoot them.
already stated in my post
If I am guessing what the ‘night work’ is it’s because the young are not being predated. We have seen the same. Mind you the piece of ground I thin them out on has always had strong numbers, before I reduced the numbers 35-40 in a single field not uncommon.
I take 20-40 off that farm each year depending on how they’re doing, and that’ll be 3/4 evenings shooting .
It’s reduced the poaching a lot, but not stopped it completely.
Good point. Worth pointing out, perhaps more pertinently, that the concerted policy of this government is to ruin the countryside by multi-pronged attacks on farming, on conservation, on the green belt, via unnecessary housing development for migrants, unnecessary pylons, massive scale solar power stations, railways nobody wants, tax assaults on the rural economy and businesses, hammering tourism, hosputality and catering, eliminating manufacturing etc etc etc
The Tories were useless but are a red herring now.
Heym SR20
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I suppose it goes into folk law. Hares always had a mythical aura. Probably because, pre nightvision on a 22 centrefire they were really quite difficult to catch. Probably too small to consistently hit with a bow, you needed a specialist long dog, and even then chances or the hare actually being caught were quite low, and they are probably a bit big for a falcon or a goshawk. Besides, long dogs and falconary was really a preserve of the nobility, and there were severe penalties for poaching.
Rabbits on the other hand were not really wild, rather they were kept in large warrens, often with walls around, managed by warreners and caught with nets, snares and ferrets. They were the food of the winter being a tasty addition to a meal for a family every now and then, and a source of fur for clothing. Because they were much more available / easier to handle, they didn’t have the mystique of the hare.
They deliver on everything pledged to their left wing and on mothing pledged to the nation.
