The end of hunt terrier work

[Halfhound 749]

28 minutes ago, sionnach99 said:

Thanks mate. I don’t post much on here anymore but no harm posting the odd story of a good day and keep the pictures sensible. Also I meant to say in original post all credit goes to the dogs, there not mine there my mates. Absolutely Top class.  I’m on the verge of leaving the black stuff behind and filling the place with his stuff . he left a 6 month old bitch up with us fair play to him. A younglad 15 starting to get into it he does come with me when he can . My mate said he’d give him a good start with a proper bitch to help him get going. lol I wish I had that help at the start instead of driving around the country buying shite off people . 

It makes all the difference no matter what it is in life you can nearly always judge someone by the company they keep and in terriers it’s definitely the case. Not too many 15 year olds with an interest now it’s good to hear they are the future

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22 minutes ago, Halfhound said:

It makes all the difference no matter what it is in life you can nearly always judge someone by the company they keep and in terriers it’s definitely the case. Not too many 15 year olds with an interest now it’s good to hear they are the future

He’s a grand younglad. Good hardy younglad . Great horseman , started coming with my to marks when out hunting , now he has the bug. Hopefully he stays at it. He’s getting a decent start 

[Halfhound 749]

24 minutes ago, sionnach99 said:

He’s a grand younglad. Good hardy younglad . Great horseman , started coming with my to marks when out hunting , now he has the bug. Hopefully he stays at it. He’s getting a decent start 

Fair play to the chap he sounds like the kind of chap that could make a huntsman some day. From what I see these days most of the young riders wouldn’t even notice if hounds weren’t there 

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17 minutes ago, Halfhound said:

Fair play to the chap he sounds like the kind of chap that could make a huntsman some day. From what I see these days most of the young riders wouldn’t even notice if hounds weren’t there 

He could do . Children’s meet he’s the huntsman , loves it . Not many about like him . A lot of them seem to think good days and lots of jumping just happens . Good hounds make good hunts. 

[Halfhound 749]

24 minutes ago, sionnach99 said:

He could do . Children’s meet he’s the huntsman , loves it . Not many about like him . A lot of them seem to think good days and lots of jumping just happens . Good hounds make good hunts. 

This is it. I don’t think enough is done to get more interest in the field with the hounds years ago it was different now as you say a lot of them think it’s just a hack around and day out. 

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3 hours ago, Halfhound said:

This is it. I don’t think enough is done to get more interest in the field with the hounds years ago it was different now as you say a lot of them think it’s just a hack around and day out. 

It all revolves around schooling horses now and getting the mileage up on them to sell them. They have no interest in hunting. That being said each to their own without the horse industry there would be no hunting , they go hand in hand that’s there thing. There can’t be one without the other. One time though a horse was just means to follow the hounds. But I guess times change. That’s long before a lot of us were born. Don’t think hunts have been like that in 70+ years being truthfull.