How High are Your Club's Jumps? Are they Natural or Manufactured?

[altjaeger]

I was thinking about how fox hunting probably started – back in England. Some landowner probably hired a couple of guys to come onto his land with their hounds to reduce the fox population and the landowner’s 17 YO and 15 YO sons thought it would be fun to follow along on horseback to watch the proceedings. But I could be all wrong, of course!

Land in England (at least today) is broken up into small fields and jumping the barriers in-between was probably an integral part of hunting from early on, but their fences are low compared to barbed wire. Just notice the wooden fences those guys were jumping in that Prussian drag hunt video someone posted recently. Those fences looked to be 2 1/2 feet high.

[wateryglen]

Be careful Wanabe!

Hey Wanabe! Batten down the hatches! It’s gonna be a bumpy ride! Good luck with Ike and hope you & horses do well. Ditto for all you Texans! I guess hunting Sat will be cancelled!

Be sure to so some searches on some of the questions you have. We’ve done some previous posts that you’d enjoy reading! And since hunting in your area will be cancelled this weekend - get some coffee and enjoy Coth!! Then GO hunt when the ground dries up! Be sure to check out all the great hunts in Texas like Hickory Creek or Brazos Valley or…etc.

[altjaeger]

LOL, I’m riding it out in a Hampton Inn in between Dallas and Fort Worth, just sitting in my room reading COTH and other horse sites and armed with an armload of riding books.

[wateryglen]

Good Luck!

And to the bright side…think of all the money you’ll save not having to water the lawn!! Or…how the “extra” rain will help the pasture grass grow! God bless you all & best wishes!

[glfprncs]

I’ve ridden with the Aiken Hounds about 10 times over the past couple of years, which is a drag hunt (mentioned earlier). They hunt over a protected piece of land in the middle of Aiken that is a preserve (the Hitchcock Woods). Thus, all of the jumps are manufactured, as there is no livestock to keep in or out.

All of the jumps are ‘aikens,’ a post and single rail with nice rounded pile of brush underneath. There are three choices at each jump: Go around, the low side (about 2’6") and the ‘high’ side (2’9"-3"). I did learn, however, that they are in the process of improving many of the fences on a day that I was riding a young horse and we went down a ‘new path.’ Little did I know that the jumps were 3’9", and was wondering why he kept rattling his toes over them (I usually took him over the ‘low’ fences). Just goes to show you, if a horse can jump, they can jump.

[Painted_Wings]

Our huntsman builds beautiful coops. They are like furniture quality. She says none of them are over 3 foot but they look bigger. I hope they settle some.