Massive Hares

[running addiction 207]

To be truthful a don't think they faster but I do think they stronger

[low plains drifter 11,253]

weighed 14 pound if that helps and the further north you go there easier to shoot and retrive they are faster down south me thinks

That's a big old lump of a hare,at a guess I would say the heaviest one I ever caught would have been around the 10/11 pound mark,and it was a fair bit heavier than the average hare's up here,it was one of two big old red backed hares that used to come off the farmland on to the school field,that was 1994/95,must say it did have some fat around the kidneys,but it took some catching,think it only got caught because it kept missing the gap in the steel mesh fence,it was no mug and it would have been ran a lot as the local fields were hammered at the time atb

[3 Turns 326]

weighed 14 pound if that helps and the further north you go there easier to shoot and retrive they are faster down south me thinks

ALRIGHT PAL.

NOT THE ONES ME AND KENNY SEEN LAST NIGHT.

THEY WERE PLENTY FAST.

[TOMO 28,992]

When I used to run hares befor the ban came in,, my experience with these larger hares was, that were generally easier cought ,, than a fit lean 7 pounder.

 

Still great to see these big beasts,,, I always wonder just how old they might be,,,scientists and biologists ,, tell us that most small mammals only live a year or two at most,,, but I wonder,,, I do remember reading something in a book years ago , about hares living up to 4 or more years,,,

[low plains drifter 11,253]

According to prof plummer, cowper the mad poet had some hares that lived to about 12 year old in an enclosure

[killing crew 2,708]

When I used to run hares befor the ban came in,, my experience with these larger hares was, that were generally easier cought ,, than a fit lean 7 pounder.

 

Still great to see these big beasts,,, I always wonder just how old they might be,,,scientists and biologists ,, tell us that most small mammals only live a year or two at most,,, but I wonder,,, I do remember reading something in a book years ago , about hares living up to 4 or more years,,,

try tell mr parish that. i onece bumped into him on the fens and he was looking through his binos said he was looking for the big hares

[low plains drifter 11,253]

I remember watching two hares in a field sitting next to a large piece of sandstone,as the hares moved away,the stone got up and followed them,it was massive,i'd say about 22 lbs ,never seen one like it since

Edited May 23, 2013 by low plains drifter