Hares In The Morning

[crorider 174]

And doesn't everything run better in daylight?

[Rabbithunter 456]

A hare run in daylight, will run the same no matter what is in its belly or if it's morning,afternoon, or early evening.

 

 

But a hare run at night is half the animal it is during the day, plenty of good Lamping dogs can take hare's on the lamp but really struggle daytime

and plenty of good day dogs really struggle on the lamp.

[Fen fever 114]

Hares are not as good first light full bellies mid day or just before dark at there best

[desertbred 5,490]

Mid winter with the frost on the ground is better, coming of a summer like we have just had the puss are not at their best that's for sure the odd one gives a good account but most go down without ever kicking into top gear.

[inan 841]

 

Has anybody ever gutted a rabbit or hare and the stomachs been empty ?

No because of regestion, I think it's called.

 

It's called refection.

[neil cooney 10,415]

Thanks Inan, I stand corrected.

I knew it began with a RE, LOL.

[shaaark 10,112]

Off topic again but I think its just as unfair on the dog as it is the hare to run it in the lamp instead of daylight. Cos when the hare gets away its almost always through no fault of the dog. Always either outrun the beam, go over a brow or through a hedge. If you can keep them in the beam any half decent lurcher will stop a few without much bother. Its keeping them in the beams that's the hard part, not actually catching them. That's why my dogs got a better ratio in daylight

That makes sense sir, also the fact that in many areas, especially lamped, hares will and do run just as fast as in the day, use the same tactics or whatever to escape and know exactly where they are heading, whether they've not been feeding, are slightly peckish, or full as f**k! Plenty of areas where they are as hard to catch on the lamp as in the day. And to the peole who say different, they couldn't have ran frequently lamped hares.

Sorry pp, I know it wasn't originally a lamping question/post, but it bothers me somewhat when people say lamped hares are easy etc etc, most areas they certainly aint!

Edited November 13, 2014 by shaaark

[fourlurchers 279]

you sort of work it out as you go along in life , for every one you run at night you was to run one of a day a picture builds that of a day they aint easy and of a night they not that difficult except when they get away

[nothernlite 18,023]

you sort of work it out as you go along in life , for every one you run at night you was to run one of a day a picture builds that of a day they aint easy and of a night they not that difficult except when they get away

lol true words

[Hydropotesinermis 724]

It doesn't matter though does it? Coursing Hares is against the law and nobody on this site does it any more, day or night.

[shaaark 10,112]

It doesn't matter though does it? Coursing Hares is against the law and nobody on this site does it any more, day or night.

Some of the Irish lads do, oh yeah, and the guys with birds of prey, so I'm lead to believe

[RossM 7,979]

It doesn't matter though does it? Coursing Hares is against the law and nobody on this site does it any more, day or night.

 

 

 

Never a truer word....... Some of it!!!

[wirral countryman 2,110]

A good hare is a test for any decent dog in the daytime no matter when, ask anyone that beat at the waterloo cup, those hare's were corralled into holding fields overnight and brought through steadily all morning into the coursing field to be run by national class greyhounds, I've stood on the bank and watched good dogs being made a fool of and with over 120 competitive runs catch only 6 or 7, the only times there would be more caught was when the fields were heavy and wet, conditions can play a big part in what's caught more so than when, WM

[Hydropotesinermis 724]

I'd forgotten about Ireland. Apologies.

[socks 32,253]

Isn't it the case that prey animals such as hares, rabbits, deer, antelope, horses etc etc have evolved to enable themselves to run the same whether they have been feeding or not ? If this wasn't the case then I think the predators in the savanna would soon switch on to this fact wait until mid afternoon when the animals were well fed and have an easy time of picking them off ... I would think if that was the case lots of prey animals would be extinct and the predators would starve to death .......