Abbeyfeale Harriers Annual Hunting Festival

[fluff 409]

what about the famous harrier the armoured tank he was some dog

Edited February 14, 2016 by fluff

[flash28 4]

Anybody have any news on how the hunting festival went

[shovel 160]

Was there on Thursday.good day. 2 good packs.Very fast hounds great voice.

[harrier 46]

well ladies and gents festival over what did you guys think ?

 

Sunday....conditions were poor for hunting....wasn't a great day ....bit of a hunt later on

Monday...conditions were bad again but still hounds stuck it well and got results on a day that wasn't favourable

Tuesday....conditions were very bad again...very patchy but hard to judge them in the conditions

Wednesday...conditions were poor in the morning but half way through the day conditions changed for the better and remained good for a week. To be fair this pack could hunt even in bad conditions ......a good number of very good hunting hounds......this pack don't keep the bad uns

Thursday.........conditions very good for hunting.......these 2 packs gave a fair display of how it should be done......best of the week IMO

Friday.............conditions very good for hunting........an example of how bad hounds can be...didn't know their job ..poor hounds couldn't keep a line....this was very hard to watch.......ADVICE: CULL

[harrier 46]

anyone got any opinions on how the festival went ?

 

Fluff......what are ya on about ?

 

whats the creator of silence.........THE TRUTH.

[harrier 46]

Bryan ......if your hunting is bad more often then serious questions have to be asked ..........wheres the problem..........hounds...... huntsman........remember one bad hound can ruin a packs hunting...............but if one bad hound is tolerated more often than not the kennel is full of bad hounds anyway because the owner cannot tell the difference.......breeding is important but shite is shite............has the huntsman got bad habits...........if your not getting good hunting...............sort it out and stop accepting it

[Goliath 4]

the orgainisers of these festivals need to seriously look at the packs they invite as 2days involved packs just rebuilding there outfits an they were starting from scratch gathering hounds around country at start of season... it dont take an expert to know these 2days were going to poor as people give a lifetime tryin to put decent pack together...also friday sounded like a disaster....that is half of your weeks hunting wit poor packs... the other 3 days are well established packs and from what i hear provided good sport

[shaneg 2,578]

I was down two years ago at a joined meet and it was a terrible day and they had lovely country to hunt. I will never again follow either pack.

[harrier 46]

yeah and we all know without saying what joint meet that was........................i just feel bad for those who travel and then see shite hounds............it could be a fantastic spectacle ...............what i fail to understand is that these packs are not going well at any stage in the season and then come down here and blame country, scent, weather and everything else they can think of but go home knowing the truth

[foxbolter 447]

Don't see the reason why they have joint meets on the festival your more likely to have better hunting with just one pack

[harrier 46]

i couldnt agree with you more foxbolter, sometimes its great when you have two packs coming together that are both well capable of hunting on their own.

 

BUT having a joint meet affords some packs the protection of saying " it didnt work out, the hounds didnt work well together". if they had a good hound between them it would hunt on and the other hounds wouldnt affect it.

 

and if the new pack they bring are good then they make the shite pack look good

 

...........................sometimes you see the same pack back time after time having a joint meet with different packs and never having a good day, do the maths.

 

sometimes you see the same pack back time after time with different packs having a great day.........this shows that they can hunt.

 

The ultimate test would really be every pack on its own.

[foxbolter 447]

Hounds of the highest standards should be invited on merit and that shouldn't mean the most amount of quarry caught in a season and why even from Ireland why not England and Wales everyone raves about harriers why not see how English and Welsh and fell hounds do in shamrock country have anyone in Ireland seen other packs over there and what was the outcome

[Thehoundman9999 0]

Yeah invite the best packs wherever they are from instead of the same poor ones over and over again!

[harrier 46]

I've travelled to England and Wales and saw packs that would open your eyes. I'm a pure harrier man at heart and that's what we all hunt here and their sound can't be beaten but there are fox packs across the water that would show up some of the packs in the festival. Imagine if the organisers only invited the best it'd be some week.

[pablo esc 1,598]

The a pack I've seen hunt a good fair bit, and the say you're man was banned from the kerry one, for his dogs being too good, and kills. He don't kill much or at all where I saw him hunting,