Day 49 of the Hunting Season - November 27th, 2010

Day 49 of the Hunting Season - November 27th, 2010

Meet: Red Pump

Temps: in the low 40's

Couples: 32 Puppies *Kirkwood and Kiki

Staff:
Huntsman- MFH James Paxson, Staff - Priscilla Godsoe, Hoppy Stearns, Dott Cochran, Field Master - MFH Duncan Patterson, Gary Kennedy, Hound Trucks - Karen Kennedy

Start: 10:00am
End: 1:30pm

Well, it was a bit of a colder start today, the wind seemed to get the best of me by the end of the hunt. I don't think I wore enough layers!



We started off towards the Bamboo Forrest, the hounds didn't go very low towards Hog's Run, instead they bent up towards Hotel California and ran 'top side' along the meet side of Hog's Run. It seemed as if the hounds would take the line towards the cornfield but instead they dropped right down the bank by the coop and headed towards the Junk Yard, wrapped around towards the river and then back towards Hog's Run. Hounds hit a miss across the stream and we couldn't find where the fox went from there. I wouldn't be surprised with as hard as the hounds where pushing the fox that he may have gone to ground, and maybe we just didn't see the hole? Who knows.

So, from the Hog's Run side the hounds picked up a fox from the meet side of Red Pump, crossed the road towards the Woods With The Two Coops, and then Dott saw the fox (Tally -ho) heading towards the woods along the river in the direction of the amphitheater. Hounds were cruising at this point into the woods, ran above the amphitheater and were heading STRAIGHT for the Point! Ahhhh!

With deer season coming on we try not to cross over towards the Mouse House, so, we had to pull the hounds up. Rather sad because they were just awesome sounding. Iceman, Issac, Drummer, Izzy, Diana, Dawn, and Deacon were all the front runners. It was hard to tell who was exactly on front because from the time I saw them pick the line up, I saw each one of the hounds on front of the line at some point through the woods and then on the way to the point. For me it is really exciting to see the 'I' hounds; who are a little over a year old and I had worked with and played with from the time they were born, go on to hunt and do such a good job. They obviously were bred to be fox hounds.

After the hounds were pulled up we took them towards the Mouse House but on the meet side along the river. Hounds picked up the River Fox, but we didn't see him, and he didn't stay up very long.. fox took us towards Holy View and then went to ground. We worked our way back to the meet and then called it a day!

Nice way to end before the two week break for the Deer Hunting Season, and certainly no better group of people to spend a Saturday afternoon with!

See you in two weeks!