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I saw a flash of brown fur as something turned and ran away from me so sneaked in closer to see what i am 90% sure was a big hare jumping over some brush and fallen tree branches. Is this a common occurance to see a hare 500m+ from the nearest farmland? Didn't see a tail so dont think it was a stoat but could be the smallest deer ever seen ever haha
YES:)
Hares thru the cutover and native, don't mention stoats their on the green rain list.
pureora pygmie wildman??? .....legend says they grow not much bigger than a hare , evolution so they can navigate thru all the supplejack and bush lawyer coarse brown fur to protect them from the ongaonga and big feet to confuse any hunters trying to track them..........
we often see hares at least 3-400yards into the native bush,and for what its worth,the backsteaks/straps from a hare treated like venison steak will give the best fallow/sika a run for their money.
Jeez, the wallaby have sure extended their range
Thats not as far fetched as it may seemQuote:
Originally Posted by jakewire
Hares can be damn near anywhere, have seen them in Tahr blocks even, tasty little backsteaks if you can be bothered butchering them!
I've had hare steaks bigger than goat back straps! YumQuote:
Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst
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Why do you north islanders think you have mountains big enough to constitute a range😆Quote:
Originally Posted by BRADS
Seen hares and chukar above 6000' when stooging around the hills in the machine all the time.
Late summer you will get deer well above 5000' in South Westland, no tucker for miles.
I always wondered why they were camped up that high in the rocks and crags.
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Didnt want to ruin the possibility of coming across a deer if it was later in the day i would have given it 150 grains. Good to know its fairly common and i wont waste so much time when it happens again
Hey R93 eat a dick!
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If you can't identify it DON'T shoot it.Quote:
Originally Posted by matto1234
Bang on the money tetawaQuote:
Originally Posted by tetawa
Hence why i waited and moved in on it. I could have shot it if i wanted i was 10m away and had a good enough look at it to know it wasnt anything but a hare sized animal.Quote:
Originally Posted by tetawa
90% is not good enough, go back and read everything you've written, you didn't identify it otherwise you would not have started this thread. At the moment there are a lot of pig hunters with dogs in Pureora North as it's the only DOC land around with out 1080, some have brown dogs.Quote:
Originally Posted by matto1234
Yes but he did not pull the trigger as he wasn't sure so I'd say he knows about identifying his target.Quote:
Originally Posted by tetawa
Read what he said " If it was later in the day would have given it 150g"Quote:
Originally Posted by MSL
The purpose of the thread was to find out if it is common occurance to see a hare that far in the bush which it obviously is, i didn't even consider shooting at the first sighting thats why i slowed down and got closer. I got within 10m of it and identifed it as a big hare or possibly a stoat. If i wanted to shoot it i could have and would have had no issue in either case. Dogs dont disappear down holes and im not an idiot.
Not wanting to put the fire out with gasoline, but, more likely a ferret than a stoat as the difference in size between the two is quite noticeable. Unless it was a very tiny hare:)
Was big, i have never seen either of them so that is good to know. Cheers
That has already been pointed out by Kidmac42. As i said i have never seen either before so thats not a hard mistake to make.
neither do hares, they live their lives above the ground, so maybe a rabbit.Quote:
Originally Posted by matto1234
If they can be found 500m or so into native bush then quite possibly