Sionnach, if your crossbreds hunt better than the pure breds then the registered pack your with mustn't be anything special.
Hounds or dogs running around making noise in a covert will make any game present leave it. Hunting starts when your fox hits country and that's when a hound comes into it's own.
If your talking about surrounding the covert with lurchers or/and guns then that's not hunting either, it's fox control.
And as for hunting nearly being banned by people with attitude ??? I disagree. It's un-organised hunting and gangs of lads who feel they can go where they want ,when they