It Burns Night tomorrow night and I want to catch a Haggis.....?

Question

....can anyone tell me the best places to go to catch one. I believe their 2 right legs are shorter than their left legs so they can run around hills in a straight line. Does that make them difficult to shoot?

I've done a search on 'Haggis Farms' on the Net but can't find anything but I'd rather get an organic Haggis that's been fed on the best hillside heather instead of one of these battery farmed specimens.

Please help.....

Reva P, I suggest you do your homework. Next thing you'll be telling me the Easter Bunny isn't real....

Answer 1

There's not much time left if you want to catch your own haggis in time for Burns night, but perhaps enough time, so I'll tell you a good hunting method.

Of course, the haggis is native to Scotland, so you need to get up there as quickly as you can and into the highlands. Take with you a long net (a tennis net, or two tennis nets sewn together, is ideal) and two mates- if you can only find one mate, you can substitute the other with a fencing post, but you will need a sledge hammer to din it into the ground.

Basically, you will be aiming to locate a herd of haggis, or a lone haggis, and frighten it into running into the net, stretched across the hillside.A good way to locate it is to listen out for its distinctive grunting call, which sounds a little bit like "Och-och-och". You can recognise the call of a full grown buck, or 'Pud', by the more dominant call "Och-och-awayyyyyyy". As you have correctly noted, the haggis' legs on one side are shorter than the other, so if you can start them stampeding towards the net, they have no way of turning back and you've got them. This method is preferable to hunting with the gun, as the relatively small size of the haggis-beasty means that a bullet large enough to bring it down usually renders it the carcase inedible, whilst it's coarse furry hide makes it all but immune to lower calibre bullets and pellets from an air gun.Once the haggis is in the net, finish it off quickly with a hunting knife, or at a pinch, the sledgehammer used to din in the fencing post you tied the net to will also do. (Nb- the ancient method of dispatching the haggis by drowning it in a bucket of whisky (or at a pinch, irn bru) was outlawed by Westminster on 'humanitarian grounds', but the Scottish assembly recently repealed this ban, so if you want to have a crack at this, all to the good, although it takes a bit more preparation.

Of coarse, once you've caught the haggis, you may well want to round up a few wild neeps and tatties... drop us a line, and I'll advise you on the best methods for finding and catching them. All the same, I think you'd best be off if you really want to catch that haggis, but there's nothing to stop you mounting a properly prepared hunt in time for next year's Burns.

Answer 2

You are not allowed to shoot Haggis, they are a protected species in Ecosse'. You will have to find their tracks. As you say, their tracks are distinctive to spot. Set up a net and trap them that way. You are not allowed to snare them. If you bait your net with Shortbread soaked in Famous Grouse whiskey, you'll have more success. Battery Farmed Haggis no longer exist. They were closed down in 2005 due to The Great Haggis Scam, where imported Tibetan Haggis were substituted for the real thing. The best place to buy a farmed, free range Haggis is Lidl's.

Answer 3

you need a massive net and some shortbread in a tartan box as bait!. I saw loads of free range haggis running around the fields beside the m6 when me and a friend drove up to scotland. Im sure that was a farm. Google it!

Answer 4

There is a village in fife called Auchtertool the haggis there are quite easy to catch. However you have to use stealth. I suggest you dress as a sheep and you should have no problem netting one.

Answer 5

The Haggis, which is flightless, only has two legs. One leg is shorter than the other because they only run round mountains in one direction. Once you've spotted one, observe whether it is running clock-wise or anti-clockwise. If you then run in the opposite direction you should be able to catch one without shooting it.

Answer 6

There are not that many this year, they're rather scarce. So you had better start hunting quickly.

If you have to go to the grocery store, it will cost you plenty.

After you cook it, remember the haggis gravy, a wee dram of a fine single malt Scotch. It makes the taste so much better.

Answer 7

No problem Asda has plenty Haggis enjoy

Answer 8

Actually there's two different species, and you've only been told about the Clockwisers. It's entirely possible that you've been hunting Clockwisers on an Anti-Clockwisers' hill.

The solution to that is - turn round! Then you'll be able to creep up on them from behind!

Happy hunting, or as we usually say - 'Up yer Neeps and Tatties - Right up'.

Answer 9

you silly person..everyone knows that a haggis is a critter with two left legs shorter than the right.You wont get an organic one either...they are all pickled in good scots whiskey

Answer 10

OMG - how dumb are you? Haggis isn't an animal is is an offal filled sheeps intestine - duh!!

Teehee, just joking - I am surprised there aren't more answers like the above :oP