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my2geldings

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Finally going through the photos we got from our fox hunting season. None of the hunts have ACTUAL hunting of a fox, but everything else is followed from hunt jackets, braided horses, horns. We usually had 60-80+ riders. Absolute blast and a great group of people. Everyone dressed fantastic and the horses looked great all cleaned up. We had falls every hunt :lol: but everyone survived. Always looking for new members! You just gotta make sure you can handle your horse in a huge group of galloping horses jumping over cross country fences all over different types of terrain. Took one of our young mares out for her first season. She had never jumped until we showed up to hunts :falloff: but she was a gem. She tried so hard to please. Do we have any other forum members out there who fix hunt?
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They do coyote "fox" hunts here, but hounds are not allowed to harm the coyote, and there are penalties if any coyotes are actually harmed/killed. My ISH's breeder and trainer are avid "fox" hunters and while I don't know much about that world, I do know that at least one of them is a Master (?) and they have always had rules against harming any live animals during the hunts and they run with the largest fox hunting group in our state, and the group has always been very well respected in our community.

The trainer, who is a very blunt and interesting person, says his favorite thing about the hunts is all the drinking that goes on!
 
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We used to hunt in the UK, I mostly loved it apart from days when it rained non stop!!
We have an open invite from a work colleague of my husbands to hunt in NC but its a long trip just for that - maybe if we ever move there we'll take it up again
 
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cbar said:
@my2geldings, where does this take place? South of Calgary somewhere? Looks interesting and I didn't know we had events like this in the province. Not sure it's my cup of tea...LOL, but it'd be fun to check out!
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What, this takes place in Alberta? No wonder I thought it was beautiful country! :wink: It does look like Alberta though, come to think of it.
 
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my2geldings

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Cannot see the pictures as I am not paying photobucket such a high amount.
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that is so strange! You shouldn't be paying anything to see the photos. No one else has problems viewing them. I wonder if you have a pop up blocker on maybe?

tinyliny said:
do they drag a sent?

I had a friend years ago who went down to Arizona annually for 'fox" (coyote) hunting. they would chase down coyotes with hounds and horses, leaping sage brush at all out gallops. kind of barbaric to the coyote, though.
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no sent used. The hunt masters know the course they will go on ahead of time and we follow. We don't use dogs.

k9kenai said:
They do coyote "fox" hunts here, but hounds are not allowed to harm the coyote, and there are penalties if any coyotes are actually harmed/killed. My ISH's breeder and trainer are avid "fox" hunters and while I don't know much about that world, I do know that at least one of them is a Master (?) and they have always had rules against harming any live animals during the hunts and they run with the largest fox hunting group in our state, and the group has always been very well respected in our community.

The trainer, who is a very blunt and interesting person, says his favorite thing about the hunts is all the drinking that goes on!
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They are a blast! The drinking for those who enjoy a social drink do have a great time.

cbar said:
@my2geldings, where does this take place? South of Calgary somewhere? Looks interesting and I didn't know we had events like this in the province. Not sure it's my cup of tea...LOL, but it'd be fun to check out!
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you know what?! The only way to know if it is is to come and try it! Also we have a few vehicles follow us from a distance (on most of the track unless it's too off terrain), so you would be welcome to come out anytime and ride along to see what it's like.

jaydee said:
We used to hunt in the UK, I mostly loved it apart from days when it rained non stop!!
We have an open invite from a work colleague of my husbands to hunt in NC but its a long trip just for that - maybe if we ever move there we'll take it up again
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The UK fox hunts aren't for the faint of heart! Those ar truly high end compared to what we do here in Canada. Incredible riders and very brave horses up there for sure.
 
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For many years I hunted with Iron Bridge Hunt in Maryland, and later with Marlboro Hunt. It was a lot of fun, and we did hunt foxes--got up quite a lot of them, and had a lot of adventures over the years. The two Maryland hunts that I rode with did not stop up the dens so the foxes came out when they felt like it and went "to ground" when they had had enough. We had a "Four O'Clock Fox" who regularly came out at that time and gave us a grand time. In Maryland, the foxes really do seem to enjoy the chase as do the hounds (never call them dogs), the horses, and the riders.

We had some experienced field masters who got the field to places where we could watch the fox lay down the scent and then watch the hounds coming along after him. It was a grand sight. The most amazing one happened at a Marlboro hunt. The hounds had lost the trail of the fox in a bunch of brushy bushes in a fairly large pasture. They were casting around in a group when suddenly the fox popped up right in the middle of the hounds (there were about 20 of them), jumped on the backs of hounds, made his way across the brushy overgrown pasture, and high-tailed it, obviously laughing, off into the woods, with the hounds screaming their heads off behind him.

Yes, we did a ton of wild galloping, jumping, and splashing into creeks. It could be pretty hairy at times.

Nowdays, I ride to Field Trials that take place behind my house. There, the dogs (not called hounds) search out quail, point, and the handler pretends to shoot the quail. Field trials are like tame fox hunts, with a lot of gaiting, no jumping, and not too much galloping. The handlers want to go as fast as they dare as they only have 90 minutes to show how well their dogs can hunt. Field trials are fun, too, and more my speed now that I am so much older.
 
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Fox hunting starts in the U.K. In November, clubbing starts in August (training the young hounds)

I was out early with the dogs this morning, a white frost, and dark but by the time I was heading back the sun was coming up as a bright red ball over the sea and the lower parts of the Island were shrouded in a mist which I knew would soon be burnt off by the sun.

A beautiful day for chasing foxes!
 
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