..15 1/2 couple ran the first red from 8:48am until the fox got tired and switched the pack onto a fresh red at 11:50am. ( This first fox ran in the open alot, and at around 11:30 he began to make some tight swings in the woods without keeping to his previous pattern of running back and forth across the wheat field seen in the video).
The fresh fox ran in the woods the entire time. At 12:45 when we viewed him cross over the dirt road only a couple hundred feet in front of us we decided to break the hounds . Their second pilot was headed into different territory, and although all hounds were on, four hours' running was enough. (We are hunting again tomorrow. When we invited our guests to come back again, they seemed surprised and said they would have to rub their hounds down with liniment tonight. We'll see if they come back tomorrow!!)
When we met at 8:30am, we thought we counted 15 couple , including the guest hounds from Delaware ( still shotgun season for deer in Delaware). But as you will hear, we actually had 15 1/2, lol!
It was 22 degrees at the draw, but warmed up to 42 by the time we finished.
Will be remembered as the day I mooned the fox when I went into the woods to pee and he ran right behind me...no video of that, thank goodness!
Watch Sara (the only lemon hound) as she pauses at the ditch before going through it.This was the third time this fox had made this huge circle across the open, and I can just imagine her thinking " OMG, we gotta run that field AGAIN??!" LOL! But she stayed packed up right with them all day. I love my hounds!
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