Saturday, December 22, 2012

Hunt #40 for my hounds - A fox that ran the open in the WIND!


Charles James

Look to the far left- that's Marilyn getting it figured out!!!!
38 degrees at the 8am draw. Winds were forecast to be steady at 25-30mph with gusts up to 50 mph - and the weatherman wasnt lying!

12 1/2 couple of hounds  (my puppy, Reilly is out of heat finally!!)  found their fox at 8:05 in the woods north of High Stump road.  This red tried all morning to slip the hounds by running in the open- downwind, upwind, every which way he could!  After 2  1/2 hours of some impressive hound work, our fox finally resorted to enlisting the aid of a second fox at 10:30.  Perhaps a tag-team manuever had been the foxs'  intention.  Instead, the pack got busted up  and the chase came to a halt in almost the exact same area where Charles had been roused. You can't tell me these foxes don't enjoy this!  We rounded them up ( Lily and Marney decided to hang out in the woods for awhile, lol!) and called it a day. 

The video pretty much sums it all up. 

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