FT sends a correspondent out with the Chiddingfold, Leconfield and Cowdray Hunt to see what happens when you remove the fox from the equation.
Good layman’s article with a sidebar glossary of hunting terms and a link to the Countryside Alliance.
Funny, must be the week for it–the Economist included in its profile of people who’ve moved to America an English huntmaster who moved to Virginia because of the ban. It even includes a picture of A Hunt, but it doesn’t identify which one.
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This week’s Economist?
The ridiculous thing is that hunting is still totally active and has a 5 fold increase in participants since the legilsation.
I would think interest in hunting would increase as those wanting to hunt but squeamish about rumors of what happens to the fox keeps them away. Now that there is no worry about what happens to the fox or what their PETA-esque ‘friends’ would say, they can hunt without worry.
They’re still hunting foxes here.
They would not really be more “squeamish” since, as I understand it, it is not the killing of foxes but killing them with more than one or two hounds? Or not at all with hounds? One can still shoot the fox or use a raptor? So the killling was not the issue, no? It was using hounds. Silly legislators.
It was politics and class warfare.
What a mess.:no:
I think he wanted to do real hunts, not drag hunts. (It does seem kind of silly to call it hunting and then routinely not kill anything.)
And yes, that was this week’s Economist. I wish Dad still got FT–I miss the Christmas Quiz.
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It was politics and class warfare.
What a mess.:no:[/QUOTE]
Sadly. And here in the U.S. the class warfare comes from the insulated-left-wing pc-intellectuals who scoff at hunting as being a red-necked-hillbilly-inbred-nascar activity and don’t realize that fox hunting is hunting too. They are shocked at death. Just shocked.
You noticed that too, didya? :lol:
I’ve hunted several times in Britain since the ban and the hunts I’ve been out with ignore the ban. They bring out all the hounds and off we go. If a fox is accounted for nobody says anything openly, that’s all. The local police don’t really pursue the issue, unless it happens right in front of them and they can’t ignore it. Plus the Masters are sure to keep the hounds as far away from roads/open country as possible. Sabs only come out on weekends anyway.
