Best days hunting last season?

[rabbit slayer 22]

Just curious as to how the hunting has been across the country last season. And if anyone can recall they're best days hunting from last season and why?

 

ATB

[rabbit slayer 22]

** And your most memerable

[neil cooney 10,416]

First fox found in a fox covert quickly marked to ground and left.

Next to try was a patch of briars smaller than a quater acre. It held two brace.

Hounds got a line on one but two fields later marked him too to ground.

Another was seen crossing a road the other side of the small covert and hounds were quickly brought around and found their line.

I stood in the back of a pick up (as you do)and we got around quick to where we thought he'd be heading for.

We turned right at a junction and here I could see the hunted fox heading for the road we were on. I tapped the roof of the pick up and the driver switched of the engine.

The fox got across and we watched him down a valley for over a mile before he swung left and we could still see him for the next mile or so.

As we stood watching hounds crossed and stuck to their line without fault. If I can remember rightly Fireman and Haulage amongst the lead hounds.

We had to turn around and head back to the junction and take a right turn. We shot up there at 40 mph and hounds were already across.

We watched a lot of the field jump out before heading on straight for a mile or so and turning left again and watching hounds into our left in full cry.

They swung left and we took the next left, carried on for half a mile and looking into our right could see the pack breaking up their reward.

Over one hour without a check and pulled him down.

I've seen longer but the veiwing on this one was amazing and one I'll remember.

[old dog 210]

Fairplay neil,that sounded a grand day out mate,bet you are looking forward to next season,atb

[neil cooney 10,416]

As you do Old Dog,

wont be long now 'till we're on the bog, six in the morning, waiting for the first bit of music of the year. As you know ,anyone who hasn't experienced it hasn't lived.

[Johnny85 50]

As you do Old Dog,

wont be long now 'till we're on the bog, six in the morning, waiting for the first bit of music of the year. As you know ,anyone who hasn't experienced it hasn't lived.

Roll on Aug 1st. best day last season. A so called poor meet so only a few out on horses, I was running on foot as I always do nevr ride. Hounds took an hour to find then found on top of a cliff. Then did a very fast hour and twenty mins in a big right hand circle. serious music. Marked him on the sand doons and had him. Very very good accurate hunting.

 

Good Hunting

 

Johnny

[rabbit slayer 22]

First fox found in a fox covert quickly marked to ground and left.

Next to try was a patch of briars smaller than a quater acre. It held two brace.

Hounds got a line on one but two fields later marked him too to ground.

Another was seen crossing a road the other side of the small covert and hounds were quickly brought around and found their line.

I stood in the back of a pick up (as you do)and we got around quick to where we thought he'd be heading for.

We turned right at a junction and here I could see the hunted fox heading for the road we were on. I tapped the roof of the pick up and the driver switched of the engine.

The fox got across and we watched him down a valley for over a mile before he swung left and we could still see him for the next mile or so.

As we stood watching hounds crossed and stuck to their line without fault. If I can remember rightly Fireman and Haulage amongst the lead hounds.

We had to turn around and head back to the junction and take a right turn. We shot up there at 40 mph and hounds were already across.

We watched a lot of the field jump out before heading on straight for a mile or so and turning left again and watching hounds into our left in full cry.

They swung left and we took the next left, carried on for half a mile and looking into our right could see the pack breaking up their reward.

Over one hour without a check and pulled him down.

I've seen longer but the veiwing on this one was amazing and one I'll remember.

sounds a good day mate, bet the music made the hair on your neck stand up. And the hounds got their just reward.

ATB for the coming season

[neil cooney 10,416]

The hair will stand on the back of your neck anytime anywhere if the music is good enough.

Johnny, that was a good start for any mans season. Do you's usually have a few horses out that early in cubbing?

[kevin em 342]

horses dont start with us till the end of september.one day stood out for me last season never saw hounds so busy hunting non stop from start to finish the people on horses were walkin like john wayne at the end of the day and we got some sport too

[Johnny85 50]

The hair will stand on the back of your neck anytime anywhere if the music is good enough.

Johnny, that was a good start for any mans season. Do you's usually have a few horses out that early in cubbing?

 

Sorry Neil it was a January day. with a mounted pack near me. I did have an hour and a half hunt in the cubbing with another fox hound pack near me. As good as any proper day and killed him on top after it but it was messy running, nothing like the spin in Jan.

[neil cooney 10,416]

The hair will stand on the back of your neck anytime anywhere if the music is good enough.

Johnny, that was a good start for any mans season. Do you's usually have a few horses out that early in cubbing?

 

Sorry Neil it was a January day. with a mounted pack near me. I did have an hour and a half hunt in the cubbing with another fox hound pack near me. As good as any proper day and killed him on top after it but it was messy running, nothing like the spin in Jan.

Ah, I was wondering Johnny. In January it was a good chance it was a wandering dog fox. One and a half hours is a good foxhunt.

[neil cooney 10,416]

I remember about 3 years ago another hunt out of the same meet as the one I mentioned earlier.

A few minutes after moving of a small vixen could be seen moving along a ditch in front of the pack as they drew along. Soon the pack marked her.

We were on our way into them when the huntsman spotted the vixens partner just ahead sneaking away. He was a massive dog fox, nearly orange in colour with an unusually large amount of white in his chest. He was white from one front leg to the other.

The huntsman quickly got the pack on his line and the hunt was on. To get out of this field wire had to be cut and the huntsman threw his cutters to a man on foot who cut the wire. When he threw the cutters back he missed and the cutters landed in the grass. The huntsman said leave them there I'll get them after.

To cut a long story short this fox gave them a point of 9 miles. It was one of the fastest I've ever seen and horses were lost or struggling left right and centre. A brilliant hunt which resulted in the fox being marked and left to live another day, why would you kill such a good one?

Eventually the hound wagon was got and hounds and horses were loaded.

Then the huntsman and one of the whips went to start fencing. The first call was to the field were they had found and the cutters had been lost. As the 2 boys went into the field here was the hunted fox making his way towards them. In the couple of hours since the hunt finished he had made his way back to the vixen.

Over the years I've heard similar stories and they just prove that hunting takes nothing out of them. They're either 100% dead or 100% fit afterwards.

Edited June 1, 2011 by neil cooney

[gonetoearth 5,144]

NO SUCH THING AS A BAD DAYS HUNTIN

[Linton Lad 90]

NO SUCH THING AS A BAD DAYS HUNTIN

 

What about when you got a puncture with your quad big fella, you wernt best pleased then. Ha Ha. :

[neil cooney 10,416]

Go on Linton Lad, tell us more.

Did he kick the shit out of the quad????