GHOST CHASERS!! (Lepus Europaeus)

[kings of winter]

Hey Bo D, there are many recipes on how to prepare European Hare on the Internet, it all depends on your culinary preference. One of mine and Jackhunters favorite recipes is European Hare wine stew over a bed of pappardelle pasta!!!!! Don't ask me to tell you every detail on cooking it just Google it and Bon Appetite !!!!!!!!!!

[Bo D]

Can't stop laughing. Took a shot in the dark, but will try and look it up. Thanks...

[G.S.]

Can't stop laughing. Took a shot in the dark, but will try and look it up. Thanks...

and do ya need the hen tooth recipe as well? lol

[G.S.]

Hey G.S to answer your question, me and Jackhunter have had this conversation many times afield, it's simple the extermination of the coyote will bring back the European Hare population without any doubt!!!! Harsh words but it's reality. Will that happen unlikely but we disected this topic too many times and its 90% the yotes. So all you guys who chase yotes with dogs or call them in, keep pounding them, Jack hunter and I are very grateful!!!!!!!

Thanks, I knew you guys should have had the same question. It makes sense for me, the yote # is too high for sure.

[gonduckin]

Good shooting guy's, congrats on a good day afield.

Tony

[Big Gunner]

Great job boys. One of my favorite was jack slow cooked in sause then spread over a plate of polenta.

I agree with the coyotes but I often wondered if the avian predators might also be inpacking the populations. A very efficient hunter. A jack at full speed would do circles around a coyote but for birds it wouldn't be a problem. And hawk numbers seem to be growing every year. Do you think this could be a factor in there numbers?

[kings of winter]

Hey Big Gunner, no one will ever despute the fact that birds of prey will on occasion take an adult hare or its young. But nothing compares to what the yotes do and I will explain to you why. When the European Hare Doe gives birth to her leverts she takes them and hides them in different locations so that they have a better chance of survival against all different types of preators. This is were the yotes shine because there sense of smell is much more keen than our domestic dog by far. One by one the leverts don't stand a chance. Predators with out question are the number one factor for the European Hare demise in southern Ontario especially the wily coyote!!!!!!

[jaycee]

Hey Big Gunner, no one will ever despute the fact that birds of prey will on occasion take an adult hare or its young. But nothing compares to what the yotes do and I will explain to you why. When the European Hare Doe gives birth to her leverts she takes them and hides them in different locations so that they have a better chance of survival against all different types of preators. This is were the yotes shine because there sense of smell is much more keen than our domestic dog by far. One by one the leverts don't stand a chance. Predators with out question are the number one factor for the European Hare demise in southern Ontario especially the wily coyote!!!!!!

Also don't forget that farming practices have changed drastically, you used to find Jacks in fence/hedgerows, now that they are taken out to make larger fields to accommodate the bigger machinery, you can,t find jacks as that is where they lived primarily an along the edges of forests and very small bushy areas which are also gone.
Without habitat, you have no Jacks, and definitely the coyotes are very hard on them.

[tracker]

I think yotes have a lot to do with taking jacks. I started jack hunting 1965 and we did jack drives Perth, Huron, Wellington and Waterloo county sometimes 6 days a week during xmas break. We only saw fox until the late 60's when we saw our 1st yote in Gorrie area. Group that ran fox with dogs saw their 1st yote in 1968 in Elora area and I saw our 2nd yote in 1975 Stratford area. Yote tracks can be found in every concession we push now but I only saw one set of jack tracks this season. Never saw a jack last season. Best place to find and start a yote is next to a village not a swamp.

[kings of winter]

Hey jaycee Jackhunter and I have probably hunted every township in southwestern Ontario, and I assure you that 80% of the farms we hunt look the same like they did 25 years ago!!!!