Day 40 of the Hunting Season - November 10th, 2010

Day 40 of the Hunting Season - November 10th, 2010

Meet: Funnel Lake

Temps: in the high 40's

Couples: 21 couples
*including a couple of 8 month old 'K' puppies - Kiki & Kent

Staff:
MFH- James Paxson, Staff - Priscilla Godsoe, Hoppy Stearns, Dr. Carl Mease, Dott Cochran Field Master - Gary Kennedy, Hound Trucks - Karen Kennedy

Start: 8:30am
End: 10:40am



Nice morning out and about the 'river hills'!



We had a good run on the Amish side of the river. Hounds were really strong heading toward the Township Woods but split of two foxes, one headed in the direction of the covered bridge and the other went to complete opposite direction towards the Red Barn (not young Herr's red barn). The group that went towards the red barn out their fox to ground and Dott and Hoppy picked up the hounds and brought them back to the other group that we picked up after they hit a miss across the stream near the bridge.



MFH Jimmy put the hounds back to work towards "Chicken Sam's" and they quickly got a fox (which Dott viewed running along the path and the river in the direction of the Horse Shoe). ALL of the hounds ran the line to the river where they dead stopped at a log the stretched a good 20 feet across the river, and was about 6 feet high from the stream... Journey a puppy, had his nose down and kept going across the log but fell off into the water! His nose was working faster than his feet. Aurora, mom to some of the pups, went across the log to show the pups how it was done... and if that wasn't good enough, she double checked the line once she got to the other side and went all the way back again!

Devon, Cyndy, and some H's also followed carefully along. We all held our breath as they basically tight roped their way across the river. Such a cool sight to see. I tired to get video of it but I just wasn't close enough. MFH Jimmy went into the river with his house and helped to move the hounds up so the all didn't navigate the log. We picked up the line again and headed in the direction of the stone pile.

We decided as the hounds hit a miss and were headed back in the direction of the ground we just hunted that we would pick them up and head back to the meet.

Good day :-)