Day 7 of Cubbing... August 23rd, 2010

Day Seven of Cubbing

Meet: RED PUMP (Hog's Run Side)

Temps: in the high 60's

Couples: 19 1/2 couples(JCP Kennels) *Puppies: Journey, Jessie, Jacob, Joaquin, Jewles

Staff:
MFH- James Paxson, Whips - Hoppy Sterns, Fred VonC, Priscilla Godsoe, Field Master - Gary Kennedy, Hound Trucks - Karen Kennedy

Start: 7:00a.m
End: 9:03a.m.

Very great morning.

Started off by going to the right hand part of the woods at the meet and heading in the direction of the pond. It seemed as though the hounds were going to pull towards the coops but Audrey; an older hound, insisted that the line (scent of the fox) went up the drive toward the corn field... she was right and they all harked on (followed the scent she found) to her and then went off through the corn field, near the coop above Hog's Run and then around to the Bridge Abutment.

From there they were blazing and ran the old Red Pump Road up towards the woods with the two coops and in the direction of Holy View. A quick loop back the Fox ran the corn rows and headed for the Second Deer Stand and into the field of corn along Lees Bridge Road (This is when I viewed the fox heading from one corn field across to the other). At this point I headed around to the road side of the corn field, Fred stayed on the Meet Side and said that the hounds ran really strong and then stopped.

MFH Jimmy and myself decided to go and investigate so we went into the corn field and found where the fox had given the hounds the slip by going in his hole. The five puppies did an awesome job on this run, and got a good whiff of what the fox scent smells like.

From here we took the hounds to the river and then hunted back towards the meet.

Great Morning :-)

NEXT HUNT: Herr's Stone Lane @ 7:00a.m