Best days hunting last season?

[gonetoearth 5,144]

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. :

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[rabbit slayer 22]

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.

 

I agree mate i think that fox deserved his freedom for another day, after providing such a good hunt. Hopfully he will carry that on through his line of cubs aswell for future sport.