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How’s everyone doing? Back 15-20 years ago I had multiple accounts on here. Was very friendly with a few names. Met life long friends and had some cracking sport with the dogs.    I haven’t bee

@mC HULL has got hybrid hares fastest in all the land and now you got field mice that build sets, bite terriers .. and chase lurchers … glad I only walk the dog to bargain booze.sounds a wild world ou

The biggest problem we have had 'darn sarf',.. for many years,..is that once you give a farm or estate a good pasting with the dogs, ferrets, nets, traps and snares,.. plus the night shooting,..  the

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Just now, dodger said:

Managed to find some good pockets of rabbits while mooching this evening but still to see a hare in these parts yet 

Has it been hammered over the years with lads driving the land, if so, farmers might have shot them all.

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3 minutes ago, Pardus said:

Has it been hammered over the years with lads driving the land, if so, farmers might have shot them all.

I don't know I'm not from round here mate the land looks like it would suit them but there just not here, reading mackems reply it may be that they don't do well here for whatever reason but do in neighbouring counties it's a weird one isn't it.

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The biggest problem we have had 'darn sarf',.. for many years,..is that once you give a farm or estate a good pasting with the dogs, ferrets, nets, traps and snares,.. plus the night shooting,..  the land, doesn't appear to lend itself to regeneration,..in short, once you have done' em,. you have fecking done' em..🙄

Most of the big arable farms locally, have installed drop boxes, along miles of rabbit proof fencing,...and this,.. alongside the inevitable myxy,.. has depleted the rabbit population....

I've seen this coming for several decades, and freely admit to being a part of the Coney's demise.

Personally,...I cannot ever see our rabbits returning in big numbers....🤔

 

 

 

 

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10 hours ago, mC HULL said:

been about years mate you have to get about and find them 

Rabbits have always seemed to do quite well round your neck of the woods haven't they 

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Plenty of hares around and more deer than there has ever been but the rabbits are still struggling. The past couple of years they seem to be trying to recover but they don't seem to be breeding like rabbits and replenishing their numbers.

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12 hours ago, dodger said:

Rabbits have always seemed to do quite well round your neck of the woods haven't they 

there pockets  mate i can always get a few runs but an hour north a me is littered 

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On 09/04/2025 at 20:30, WataWalloper said:

What was your last names so we can tell if your full a shite or not haha 

If you need multiple names it tells a story in itself lil

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4 hours ago, dodger said:

I'm in Oxford Wiltshire border now there's definitely hares here and been seeing a few rabbits 

I lived around Wiltshire for a couple of years 20 ish year back there was plenty rabbits then good to see theres still some about..

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