sapper063 Posted February 12, 2009 Report Share Posted February 12, 2009 ive been looking on basc website about hares. still baffled can anyone translate into simple meaning 1/ cant sell hares beetween march an july 2/ i can shoot them with farmers permission but not on sundays or xmas day 3/then new laws came out in august please explain in laymens terms please? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David BASC Posted February 13, 2009 Report Share Posted February 13, 2009 It is a bit complex - hares are ground game, so can be treated like rabbit in that respect in terms of who can shoot / take them - Occupier , members of his household resident on the land in his occupation, persons in his ordinary service on such land, and any one other person bona fide employed by him for reward in the taking and destruction of ground game. Permission must be in writing. But as game they are restricted to no shooting on Sunday & Christmas day as you say There are further restrictions on moorland and unenclosed land - In the case of moorlands, and unenclosed lands (not arable lands), the occupier and the persons authorised by him can take hares only from the eleventh of December to the thirty-first day of March in the next year, both inclusive. This provision does not apply to detached portions of moorlands or unenclosed lands adjoining arable lands, where the detached portions of moorlands or unenclosed lands are less than twenty-five acres. That is it in a nutshell - as far as i can tell, but I will double check with my conservation & land management team and confirm, but if you are still not sure then please let me know - happy to help if I can David Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sapper063 Posted February 13, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 13, 2009 so on a farmers land ie enclosed fields i can shoot hares exept on a sunday or xmas day but cannot be sold between march and july has this law been changed as ive read its best to shoot them end of feb beggining of march very gery area and not clear at all. thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baldrick Posted February 13, 2009 Report Share Posted February 13, 2009 I am not aware of any change in the law. Hare shoots are common at the end of the game-shooting season, but they are timed to fall before the 1st March threshold for dealing in hare carcases. So fire away in early-March if you wish, if you are taking them only for your own pot. I shoot hares throughout the year, particularly over emerging sugar beet in early-summer, drilled maize and summer stubbles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitebridges Posted February 13, 2009 Report Share Posted February 13, 2009 (edited) I appreciate the damage they can do, but are brown hare numbers down in your area? We have shot a quarter of last years number (Norfolk and Suffolk). Granted, a few of our guns have voluntarily said they won't take them because they fear for the longer term. After the coursing ban hares were tolerated but the West Norfolk farms seem to be "having them out", as their sporting value has clearly fallen. I know of a N Norfolk shoot that would comfortably shoot 200 head in a day, but 60 were returned recently. It's possible to get £6 a sally at the moment, so the demand is coming from somewhere. I'm a bit worried about their future. Edited February 13, 2009 by Whitebridges Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave-G Posted February 13, 2009 Report Share Posted February 13, 2009 Sally - whats that mate? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
al4x Posted February 13, 2009 Report Share Posted February 13, 2009 at a guess they'll be going to Europe, p.s a sally is a Hare Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baldrick Posted February 13, 2009 Report Share Posted February 13, 2009 al4x is right: most go to the Continent (specifically Belgium and France), so I am told by our local game dealer. Numbers are notably down on last year, on the farms in Essex where we try to preserve them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitebridges Posted February 13, 2009 Report Share Posted February 13, 2009 (edited) Our cousins over the water have always had a taste for Sally. Are the numbers down on their side of the pond? Views appreciated on ther recent price rise, i.e. export market. Cheers lads. There seems to be restraint and i'm not going to shoot any this year. They are superb eating though..... Edited February 13, 2009 by Whitebridges Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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