can you tell me which big hunt in the UK uses Black and Tans ???
Tamara in TN
Scarteen
Yeah but, gasp, don’t say they are in UK, they are Irish!
is there one near Buckinghamshire ?
Tamara in TN
You don’t need to go over the pond to find black and tans, Reedy Creek Hounds in McKenny, Va has black and tans.
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You don’t need to go over the pond to find black and tans, Reedy Creek Hounds in McKenny, Va has black and tans.[/QUOTE]
they were in a movie shot in Buckinghamshire…so I don’t think it was them 
Scarteen would fit in correctly if I could just find some territory shots I could confirm it was them…
Tamara in TN
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Yeah but, gasp, don’t say they are in UK, they are Irish![/QUOTE]
mea culpa…I should know this from my Welsh Cob breeders in Wales ;):lol:
Tamara in TN
Hunting over there is still on my ‘to do’ list. But I did go for a hack in Scarteen country, summer 2002. Just called a local place while rest of family was playing golf, and they apologetically explained that they had a group going out that afternoon, but it included beginners so would be slow. I said that was fine, slow was fine, just wanted to see the countryside by horseback.
Well, John the ride leader put me on a 3 yo mare who had apparently completed her first season of hunting. As the ride unfolded, he would halt the group and send me to go jump ‘that over there.’ Started with a fallen tree, worked up to banks, ditches, water complexes, whatever. I think he mostly just wanted to see me buy real estate or ocean front property, thankfully it didn’t happen. Long story short he declared me fit to come back and hunt any time. (Even though I swear I had never even mentioned hunting on the phone or at the start of the trail ride).
blacks and tans in Scotland
I am a member of Reedy Creek and Rockbridge in Virginia and have never hunted farther north than Maryland or farther south than North Carolina. It seems to me, however, that I saw a photo in one of Jim Meads’s books of a pack of black and tans in Scotland, not the “Kerry Beagles” of Ireland, but Dumfrieshire hounds, I believe they were called.
Once upon a time - I fell in love with the nephew of the Master of the Scarteen’s - didn’t amount to much, sadly!
A wander around Google-land produced some interesting history on this famous pack, as you say, descended from the French hound that gave it its distinctive colouring.
