Day 65 of the Hunting Season - January 17th, 2011

Day 65 of the Hunting Season - January 17th, 2011

Meet: Red Pump

Temps: in the 20's

Couples: 22 1/2 *Puppies Keno, Kirkwood, Kent, Kane, Kalev, Kiwi, Kiki, Kia,Kay

Staff:
Huntsman- James Paxson MFH, Whippers-in- Fred VonC MFH, Priscilla Godsoe, Hoppy Stearns, Field Masters- Gary Kennedy, Hound Trucks - Karen Kennedy



Start: 10:00am
End: 12:45am

Exciting day out and about and covering just about all of the Red Pump meet.

We started off heading towards the coop above Hog's Run. The hounds dropped down and across the creek heading up towards the Junk Yard, across through DeVines woods, and around towards the Bamboo Forrest. Hounds were on a few spotty lines but nothing great.

We crossed over towards the Stone Pile and Red Pump Road heading in the direction of the Deer Stand along Lee's Bridge Road. Hounds worked the little ravine down through towards the road and picked up a line by the Second Deer Stand. A fox was viewed out across the corn field in the direction of the Mouse House Farm, and a second fox was viewed heading towards the Amphitheater.

Soon 90% of the hounds were on the second viewed fox and they were off! The split pack ran the first fox to ground quickly. The main pack was all they way at the coop along Hog's Run and dropping towards Petro's Bank along the river. I moved the split pack to the line of the second fox knowing they would eventually catch up.

The fox was viewed crossing between a landowners house and their garage, and again from Freemont Road heading towards the Junk Yard. We moved the hounds away from the house to avoid getting too 'up close and personal' with the house dogs and our pack of 45 hounds! Ha-Ha.

The line was now a little harder to pick up but the hounds were able to take the line back across Hog's Run, and out into the big corn field at the meet. MFH Jimmy helped the hounds by moving them along and dropping towards the Red Pump Road. They picked up the line again and took it from the brier patch at the meet along the meet side of the bank along Red Pump and hit a miss.

It was a good day. Not too bad for getting around. You could gallop in some places and the horses feet didnt 'ball up' with snow. Looks like we are set to get some rough weather of freezing rain and snow which could hold up our hunting for a bit.

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Cheers!