Hare cut

“I know you men are more interested in chasing the pigs while you are here, but could you do something about our hare problem as well?” asked Wendy, my son’s sister-in-law. Pigs were our main aim during our week-long stay but her request got our attention. The hare hunting held as much appeal as the pig hunting, for me anyway.

WENDY said all of the hard work they had done planting trees was being jeopardised by hares, which were nipping the tops off the newly planted trees and not even eating them, just destroying the trees. Closer inspection of the trees showed the substantial damage the hares had done.

With the coming of nightfall, we loaded up the 4x4 and headed off, looking forward to what the coming hours of hunting held for us. While Blake was using his Howa .22-250 for any fox or pig we came across, I had the Savage .17 HMR. Suspecting the hare population had been getting a