Season So Far

[VALLEY HOUNDS 43]

Hows every ones season going so far?

personally we found better scent in the drier start of the season ,Since the onset of

rain scent seems to be very patchy .Numbers are still ticking over slowly with the pups

entering steadily .Lets hope for the white stuff soon .

 

Didnt take many photos today wet day .Scent wasnt best in places .

Even left the little warriors in which proved to be a downfall .

But there is allways another day .We aint out to eradicate

 

 

 

Hour in not best so far

 

 

 

Took a while to find but only run for 20 min

No warrior to hand

[VALLEY HOUNDS 43]

 

lemon and white hound i offered on here year ago ,

Glad i kept him now ,

[j j m 6,533]

some nice hounds there

[neil cooney 10,416]

Serves you right for leaving the Tyke at home, LOL.

Typical Huntsman, "We're not out to kill them all." But if you had the Tyke with you you'd have increased your tally, wouldn't you. Admit it. LOL.

Funny enough, for the fine weather we're having this Autumn I've bumped into several foxes underground, in fact more than some wet years.

[milliken 791]

looking well mate hunting has been very slow with us the start of the season but getting better lasts few weeks

 

robert

[VALLEY HOUNDS 43]

been alot wetter the last few weeks for us and scent has gone patchy , neil you are right lol

[neil cooney 10,416]

LOL, I know.

If the forecast is correct scent should improve this week.

Most of the packs over here are starting this week and it could be hard for them as there's stock out everywhere.

More bad news, there's a new saboteur organisation after starting in the North and they've already tried to disrupt a hunt.

Judging by their Farcebook page they're from another planet.

[milliken 791]

neil where abouts are they based thats all we need do they have a name or website

[young man 225]

There called ' hunt saboteurs ni ' C**ts

[neil cooney 10,416]

Their FB page is Ban Foxhunting and Stag Hunting in Northern Ireland.

As you read down through their rubbish you'll see they are very un-educated on the subject but they're not afraid to break the law as they have already and IMO they seem to have took tactics from the scum in England so I would take them seriously.

[milliken 791]

just read abit in the local paper about them and a cry out for new members the scary thing is they most likely will thanks to the belfast telegraph putting it in the paper now is really the time to beware lads

[neil cooney 10,416]

There's one or two foot packs in the North that I'd like to see them trying to intimidate.

The Sabs wouldn't be long dis-banding, LOL.

[Ggib 370]

There's one or two foot packs in the North that I'd like to see them trying to intimidate.

The Sabs wouldn't be long dis-banding, LOL.

with any luck it will be sooner than they think.

[MrAlex 4]

That's the problem, these groups gain so much public support through newspapers and I think there's generally speaking a lot of ignorance surrounding our sport. Hopefully these northern groups will soon fade out.

[Foxtrot 24]

I was going to write a topic on scent, but as you mentioned it thought I'd reply to this thread. We were hitting some really good scent end of august and pretty much all of september and considering they were really dry months I couldn't believe how good it was. And we weren't even starting at 6am to hit the dew on the ground. our starts were 10am with a finish time of around 1pm as we were only getting them out for a run (job to get people up on a Sunday before 10am round here!!). But come October we hit the 2nd weekend and it went a lot colder and a bit damper and we were all thinking the scent is only going to get better.....but how wrong we were! Scent that weekend was awful and even through October it was really patchy. It hasn't really improved much into November, but I'm hoping once the leaves come down and the fern finally flattens we should be into some decent scent. We can only hope.