Hares....... For eating......!

I’ve only taken one hare (which I took with a bow), but we cooked it and ate it, and it was excellent!
I sort of made up a recipe for it, and cooked it in the slow cooker in coke (yes, the drink coke-a-cola).
As I said, it was excellent and the next time I get the opportunity to shoot a hare it’s definitely coming home with me!!!
If anyone is interested in the recipe pm me and I’ll send it to you 👍🏻

Pete.

Yes I have eaten them before. The only ones worth eating are the headshot ones Ive take. one with the wrong bullet placement and it ran for a while before expiring was full of adrenalin and when cooked we had to throw it out. 

Nice, saw one within range this morning from a bedroom window. Before I could get a gun it was gone

That's fantastic, going to try this

Yum that looks amazing, is it pure hare meat or did you mix in some pork fat or breadcrumbs and milk to keep it moist? Doing patties with them is a brilliant idea. I was looking at an old hunting magazine the other day and there was a recipe for pork and rabbit sausage rolls which is another idea I had for hare.

I've been flat out honing my traditional bow skills over the last month ready for the roar so haven't even touched my air rifles lately except for a quick valve mod on my cr600w to increase performance slightly.

flock wrote: Tryed the Jugged hare recipe couple of years ago, all I can say is I'm not into the favours juniper berries add to the mix.  Not a fan of Gin & juniper berries are what make gin. Better off using a slow cooker mix, or use your  mix.

jugged hare has never appealed me,and there plenty other excellent ways to cook hares,our cats brought home couple half grown rabbits over past few days,so rabbits out n about again here to,we got few possums again ,they pretty rare round here these days,as farms all got possum control programs for tb etc,have to sort em out before they start wandering around and getting at fruit trees and eating the buds off everything to before they can flower or produce fruit,spring has sprung allright.

I know of an airgun hunter that swears by the backstraps as some of the best meat around. Seared, not slow cooked, like a good piece of lean game meat, without the gaminess of deer.