...on fox # 1 today. Our regular week day pack of 12 couple ( meaning no party-crashers, lol!) met at 8:00 and drew the woods at the "Sandy Bend". It was relatively mild, 37 Fdegrees, with a west wind that would increase as the morning progressed. Rain showers were due to arrive around noon.
Hound opened at 8:19 on a fox that took them quickly out of the covert, over the open at Corkel's, across Anthony Mill rd and into the Slaughter Woods. Only Tommy and Curtis viewed this foxs' run over the open - and it was a long one! The fox made a large loop on the south side of Almshouse Rd, and Bobby and I caught up with him as he made his return trip from the Slaughter Woods back to Donny Miller's. This red was coming to the road right where we were standing. He saw us, bore back slightly and then ran inside the woods about 30 feet from the road, parallelling it for about 70 yards. Then he crossed over the road, to run through Miller's front yard, passing his Jeep in the driveway. It's all on the video, lol!
Some excellent hound work follows, as the pack emerges onto the blacktop. Bobby decides the hounds need help and begins to walk them down the road to the point where the fox crossed over to Miller's. But the hounds recover the line in the woods without any help from us. Meanwhile, about 3 dozen deer are viewed leaving the same woods,but several hundred yards behind where the fox brokeaway. It 's all on here:
This pilot went to ground after a roaring good chase of just under an hour. He went to ground in the Coal Woods not far from the huge wood pile where hounds had denned one a few weeks ago. All hounds were on, and it only took a few minutes to load them and drive about 5 miles away for the next draw. ( Farmers were beginning to spread lime over all of the surrounding fields in anticipation of the rain. Plus, chain saws were buzzing in an adjacent woods).
Our second fox was found at 9:50. IMO, this fox was one of the best running reds we have had all season. He loved to run roads-he ran the middle of four different roads during the course of the chase, and he covered more hunt country than any other fox so far . We spent most of the time trying to catch up with the pack. I viewed this pilot only one time during the 95 minute run. But I've got lots of video of hounds in the roads, lol! When he ran a dirt lane for over a hundred yards and hounds checked for several minutes, it was 11:30. Only Part-Time was not with the pack. Hounds were not having much luck ,and none of us had viewed where this fox had gone. Light rain was beginning to fall; it was a good time to get them. Some very tired hounds were readily loading into three trucks when old Reno, with Pearl and Twister at her side , began to tongue down the middle of the road in front of us .It was very tempting to drop the tailgate again....
But the hounds had obviously had enough, and the rain was beginning to get a little more serious.
Tommy leaves for a two week vacation tomorrow. His hounds had a good last day of running before a two-week lay up and some" feeding -up" while his brother cares for them. . Sibling rivalry.... Hound folk will know of what I speak, LOL!
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