Day 36 of Hunting - November 1st, 2010

Day 36 of the Hunting Season - November 1st, 2010

Meet: Funnel Lake

Temps: in the low 40's

Couples: 21 1/2 couples
*including a couple of 8 month old 'K' puppies - Keno & Kirkwood

Staff:
MFH- James Paxson, Staff - Priscilla Godsoe, Fred VonC, Hoppy Stearns, Hound Trucks - Lynn Hart and Leo and Flora Erb

Start: 8:30am
End: 10:29am

We had a really nice morning at the Funnel Lake meet. Right as we started into the first covert we pushed out a brilliantly red fox that I viewed for a good while across the Amish fields. The older hounds took their noses through the woods on a different fox that gave us a great run through the 'river hills'. We put him to ground (aka he ran to his hole and said 'we'll play another day').

From here we hit the line of (what I think-not fact ha,ha) the fox I viewed early on. Hounds worked that line pretty well, but I think that fox had also gone in a bit before. After we worked through the woods near the log cabin we headed across Fair View and we got a great fox that went out across the wheat fields at Herrs and it headed towards Pumping Station, paralleling all the way toward the dairy farm and Springdale where the fox went to ground along the bank. The hounds sounded great and the puppies kept up! (amazing)

Hounds and MFH Jimmy went towards home and I flanked them along the road, so I'm not sure where or how the picked up the next line coming in, but it worked the hounds back in the direction of the meet. When they hit a miss we picked them up and headed in.

Next meet: Herr's Stone Lane at 8:30am - New calender is posted www.rhfpa.com