First time hunting was a humiliating experience.

[SharonA]

Very odd.

Well, speaking for myself, I don’t have the time and energy to get involved in a sport if the closest venue is 350 miles away. If gas were still $4 a gallon, I’d also be put off by the cost of the gas to get there.

I’m not a member of the local hunt(s), but the one with which I have any experience at all is formal in terms of attire for you and the horse. But I understand that a good number of people find their attire at consignment shops, etc – and are proud of their bargains. The hunt is also very friendly and outgoing. And, in the suburban Northeast, relatively few people own much acreage, so the 100 acres thing would be laughed out.

Not that I believe the OP, frankly, but even so, c’mon, buddy. Use some horse sense. If something takes a vast investment of money and time even just to check out for the first time, maybe it’s not worth it, however fun it might be if you lived closer. Maybe it’s not smart to get no sleep, then drive a horse trailer 350 miles one way, then try a physically demanding new sport, then drive home 350 miles (still with no sleep), and then take care of your horse who stood in a trailer for seven hours, then rode to hounds, then stood in a trailer for seven hours. Maybe just hilltop the next time. I thought many hunts required you to hilltop first.

If this really did happen, I am genuinely sorry for such a dreadful experience and encourage the OP to report this hunt to an appropriate overseeing organization, and to try hilltopping with another hunt.

[FairWeather]

HAHAHAHAHAAHAHA!!!

Thats an awesome story!

357 miles? AWESOME! When did you start driving, from the “storage unit”, where your “trailer” was kept? You know, instead of “the barn”?

[SandyUHC]

Possibletrollwithtallboots, if you are tired of living in an apartment and really would like to own property, you should seek out a financial counselor. It appears on top of the problem you have with spending, you might also have a problem regarding impulse control and judgment. Even IF your story regarding your treatment at the hunt were true, the rest of your story shows a ridiculous disregard for money.

I have capped quite a few times in the midwest, on a borrowed horse in borrowed boots and a second-hand store jacket. Even though I passed the master (I was set up, honest) the third time I fell off and got back on I was invited to join. By people who had no idea where I lived. Since you have spent all that money and you have no qualms about driving ridiculous distances, plan an overnight trip and come hunt in Iowa – it would more than make up for your preconceptions about the sport.

[Fergs]

@Trakehner;3784530

I call TROLL on this one…sounds like something out of England spouted by the hunt sabs.

I think you’re absolutely right! I’ve had the pleasure of capping with some of the oldest, most prestigious hunts in the country and have NEVER been treated this way. Yes, it can easily cost $150 to cap, especially with a top-notch hunt on a holiday, but I’ve never been asked my income, residential situation, or anything along those lines. If hunts treated people this way, they wouldn’t have any members!

I simply don’t buy this story at all!!

[Eventer55]

Choo choo Charlie was his name we hear. . . Or Trollin’ Trollin’ trollin’ keep those stories rollin’ Too early for white wine:(

[snoopy]

No way no how…NEVER have I heard of something like this. I simply cannot nor do I believe this to be true.

[JulesGirl]

If you’re going to troll, at least make it believable.

[Badger]

I don’t read anywhere in the troll’s post that this fantasy happened in the midwest. Applying a bit of logic, most points in the midwest have hunts a lot closer together than 357 miles, and capping fees much more modest than $150.00.

Plus, you aren’t going to be able to buy the necessary kit locally at ANY place that is 357-miles from a hunt. :lol:

[ArtilleryHill]

Well, that is the craziest thing I have ever heard, too. I don’t know of any hunt in the US that requires 100 acres of land ownership for membership, let alone capping. If the OP did indeed call ahead to find out information, that should have been the hunt secretary he/she talked to, and the secretary would surely have let the OP know any requirements for capping–certainly one as huge as, oh, by the way, we are the only hunt in the universe that will require that you bring proof that you own a minimum of 100 acres of land before we’ll let you cap. I mean, that’s just a crazy, crazy story.

And, if false, why on earth would you post it here where hunting people can tell readily that it makes no sense? If not false, get thee to another hunt and, if the hunt is recognized (which you can find out on the MFHA website already cited in this thread), call or e-mail the MFHA and let them know how you were treated.

How very, very bizarre. I’ve never heard anything like this in my life.

[Equibrit]

“On the morning of the hunt I got up very early, drove to the storage unit to pick up my trailer, drove to the farm where I board my horse and picked him up, then we traveled 357 miles to the hunt.”

Yeah right - and I’m Queen Elizabeth II.

Why do trolls do it?

I believe that most trolls are sad people, living their lonely lives vicariously through those they see as strong and successful.
Disrupting a stable newsgroup gives the illusion of power, just as for a few, stalking a strong person allows them to think they are strong, too.
For trolls, any response is ‘recognition’; they are unable to distinguish between irritation and admiration; their ego grows directly in proportion to the response, regardless of the form or content of that response.
Trolls, rather surprisingly, dispute this, claiming that it’s a game or joke; this merely confirms the diagnosis; how sad do you have to be to find such mind-numbingly trivial timewasting to be funny?
Remember that trolls are cowards; they’ll usually post just enough to get an argument going, then sit back and count the responses (Yes, that’s what they do!).
http://www.flayme.com/troll

for tallboots
http://www.flayme.com/troll/trollone.html

[WorthTheWait95]

[QUOTE=ArtilleryHill;3784792]
Well, that is the craziest thing I have ever heard, too. I don’t know of any hunt in the US that requires 100 acres of land ownership for membership, let alone capping.
How very, very bizarre. I’ve never heard anything like this in my life.[/QUOTE]

How many people in the midwest or the U.S. for that matter even own 100 acres of land? I’m guessing not many and I bet an even smaller percentage own horses with the desire to hunt yet there are tons of hunts out there.

[Lori_B]

And gee, where has your troll gone… BUSTED!

[Beverley]

Gee, it’s too early in the day for popcorn and chardonnay.

Tallboots. Really. I ROUTINELY travel 350+ miles to go hunting. In the first place- that takes me 6 hours out here in the wide open west, where I can and do go 70 to 75 mph on the interestate. That isn’t something anyone who has been riding for more than 10 minutes would do on the day of the hunt, one does that kind of distance the day before. In the second place- no hunt would require you to go acquire all the ‘correct’ gear to give the sport a try. Nobody. In the third place- I’ve been hunting since 1971, including while a starving college student, and starving college graduate living in an apartment, and have NEVER owned land in ANYBODY’s hunt country. That hasn’t stopped me from hunting with dozens of different hunts in a dozen or more states, including the ‘hoity toity’ hunts back east.

Can’t even say ‘nice try’ on this one. Tell ya what. If you dare, PM me the name of your fictitious hunt and I’ll give that Master a buzz to check out your story.

[tangledweb]

I think this was too challenging a topic for a first time troll to do a good job of.

While you are still building up your skills, stick to short one line questions on hot button topics. The more detail you add, the more obvious it it. Start with a short post and gradually add more and more detail in followups. A bit like a term in political office, the idea is to fool everybody at the start, and gradually let the more observant participants in on the joke so that they can mock the people still taking it seriously.

Here are a few suggestions.

I think (foxhunting, steeplechasing, horseriding, jumping, rollkur, dressage, horses wearing shoes, saddles with trees, chemical wormers) is cruel and should be banned.

My friend wants to tow with a (model of medium sized SUV) I told them it is not safe. Who is right?

I think that all (dressage, hunter, jumper) riders are better than all (dressage, hunter, jumper) riders because blah blah.

[JulesGirl]

Or bring up a rider’s weight. That’s almost too easy.

[pAin_t_Misbehavin]

Would a hunt start so late in the day?

[QUOTE=tallboots;3784403]
The hunt started at 11am. I left the apartment at 2:45am.[/QUOTE]

Just curious. I agree the OP is fiction.

I thought hunts started out so early in the morning because scent doesn’t hold for very long. Is that right or no?

[linquest]

[QUOTE=Eventer55;3784720]
Choo choo Charlie was his name we hear. . . Or Trollin’ Trollin’ trollin’ keep those stories rollin’ Too early for white wine:([/QUOTE]

@Beverley;3784999

Gee, it’s too early in the day for popcorn and chardonnay.

Geez, guys, it’s always 5PM SOMEWHERE! Don’t tell me you haven’t taken a nip out hunting at 10AM. You’re ruining our reputation as (elitist) Drinkers with a Horse Problem

[Beverley]

@pAin't_Misbehavin';3785188

Just curious. I agree the OP is fiction.

I thought hunts started out so early in the morning because scent doesn’t hold for very long. Is that right or no?

Depends on time of year, weather, temperature. For cubhunting during warmer months, yes, you need to get out there at 6 or 7 before scent totally evaporates. In winter, an 11 am to 1 pm meeting time is common.

[Baroquecoco]

wow! I do not know what trolling is. however, me thinks tallboots tells tall tales.

[Mozart]

Sounds like the plot of a really bad made for TV movie. Let me guess how it ends…you marry the ravishingly beautiful but headstrong daughter of the MFH, he dies tragically in a hunting accident and then you end up inheriting his mansion and 1000 acre farm in the middle of hunt country.