Has anyone ever gone fox hunting

[Wolf-Kim]

There is an expensive well-to-do area near us, and they have what they call the Walthour Moss Foundation, it's miles and miles of trails, fields, and forests dedicated to horseback riders, mainly fox hunters. Other riders use the place as well, but it was originally set aside for fox hunting. The place is pretty awesome.

http://www.walthour-moss.org/index09.php

 

[ducks4you]

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How disappointing!

I had always read that you'all train your Irish Hunters (that's 1/2 draft/1/2 TB) to clear jumps, then kick off of the obstacle, thus performing chiropractice therapy to the rider...or whiplash.

 

[Mac in Wisco]

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I used to do that, I got the amateur radio club on Guam interested in the late 90's and we'd do a fox hunt once a month. It also carried over into some interests. When I lived in southern New Mexico, we launched high power rockets with the local rocketry club and would put a tracking transmitter in them so we could find them after they came down on parachute. My oldest son also launched a high altitude helium balloon last winter from our driveway in Texas. It had on board cameras, GPS, and an APRS transmitter. We were ready to DF it if necessary. It reached an altitude of 100,000 feet and we picked it up about 90 miles east of our place. Here is the aprs.fi log showing the path it took. If you zoom in and click on the dots, it shows each telemetry packet, and shows that it reached 99,914 feet just south of Ranger:

http://aprs.fi/?call=KE5RJJ-11&dt=1230940800&mt=m&z=8&timerange=3600


-Mac, KB9HV

 

[cat]

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How disappointing!

I had always read that you'all train your Irish Hunters (that's 1/2 draft/1/2 TB) to clear jumps, then kick off of the obstacle, thus performing chiropractice therapy to the rider...or whiplash.

I have to admit we do train them a little crazy here! My daughter's horse was so used to jumping any obstacle whilst hunting that when she entered into a jumping competition at a local show the horse jumped the course then the judge (he was in a wheelchair)!!

My dear old crazy mare always let me choose the direction or the speed, never both. She was fantastic to hunt but I did need a rub down with liniment on more than one occasion. The secret to a successful days hunting is to drink every alcoholic beverage you are offered, that way you settle your nerves, the worst jumps are out of focus and you are nice and relaxed when you hit the floor.

 

[gaited horse]

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Ditto- my daughter loves fox hunting with the hounds in full cry and the riders galloping across the fields... is a fantastic sight.. and yes most of the time the fox outwits all of them!

I should travel to england on day an go old style hunting

 

[PortageGirl]

I haven't but I would in a heartbeat! I've ridden a lot, even hunters over jumps but only small ones, so I'd probably be on my arse in an actual hunt with legitimate obsticles, but I'd still give it a go.

 

[Wolf-Kim]

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How disappointing!

I had always read that you'all train your Irish Hunters (that's 1/2 draft/1/2 TB) to clear jumps, then kick off of the obstacle, thus performing chiropractice therapy to the rider...or whiplash.

I have to admit we do train them a little crazy here! My daughter's horse was so used to jumping any obstacle whilst hunting that when she entered into a jumping competition at a local show the horse jumped the course then the judge (he was in a wheelchair)!!

My dear old crazy mare always let me choose the direction or the speed, never both. She was fantastic to hunt but I did need a rub down with liniment on more than one occasion. The secret to a successful days hunting is to drink every alcoholic beverage you are offered, that way you settle your nerves, the worst jumps are out of focus and you are nice and relaxed when you hit the floor.

Sounds like quite the hunt!

Would have loved to see the judges face! Did she get points deducted for that "extra" jump?