Is it just our hunt?

[milkloss]

Keep getting bills for the small amount of dead stock they take, I keep ignoring the bills. All the while we have that kind of relationship and they don’t take the pee we can tolerate them....... just.

 

[tinsheet]

Not welcome here, and they now it but we are on civil terms, one fox hound pack do ring and let us know their in the area, if hounds come on a member of staff is permitted to come on and get them off.
Stag hounds their a different story, followers are the biggest problem, nothing to see 20 30 quads about!
They don't come here to often due to bring banned by so many locals.

 

[500john]

Charge them per horse and hound. They charge us per dead sheep!

 

[sticky]

I found three horse riders on my place last week despite being told to stay off but they had lost control of the dogs, I think, and were trying to get them back, there's a fair depth to the hoof prints around three fields.
They do card and also visit now as my wife gave one of them a bollocking for not behaving.

I don't pay the bills they send for dead stock as I know of some they don't send bills too so I'm not paying and regarding chains and padlocks they cut one of my chains in half last year to put one of their locks on as well.

One of the problems I have though, is that I grew up with a fair few of them and drink with them on occasion.

 

[Banana Bar]

Went apoplectic at the hunt terrier man ( why do they need a terrier man) last Boxing Day. He tried to cross an impossible ditch with his quad bike but got stuck in the bottom. He then drove a Navara around the headland of a 24 ha field of wheat to pull the quad out. He got both barrels and some. My father hunts with the same pack so we do have them on the farm. Access WILL NOT last forever, can’t be doing with them, everyone one else has to pay for their sport ( rugby, football, hockey, golf, ) through match fees apart from the crop damaging hunt whom seemingly think they are above that!

 

[beardface]

Can't stand the f***ers personally. I used to be pro hunting as in general they seemed to respect the areas they hunted in and helped to keep the foxes on there toes, but after fox hunting was banned it seemed to move them into a whole new level of arse hole. We have to let them on as we shoot a wood from the neighbours (main hunt man) side. I'm not massively into shooting but brother and dad are so have to put up with them. If I had my own farm they wouldn't be allowed with 10 miles never mind 20 feet. At times there worse than coursers in my opinion.

 

[Bernardbean]

Banned this year on most of mine, totally fed up with there arrogant ways, cutting wire, blocking drains then not unblocking, trampling ditches in because they can't jump and don't get me going about the followers ******* should of done it years ago......

 

[Av Gorritt]

We used to allow them. Then after a few incidents we went to hunt servants only. Then last year they were told no one when it was too wet. We saw hunt servants galloping over the middle of one of our leys - no need for that as hounds were not running. My husband was nearby and had a rant, which was ignored. We complained and they said they only went in one field on the way to a covert. Later investigation revealed hoofprints in 4 fields. Comes to something when a hunt follower turns up 2 days later to apologise on their behalf rather than anyone from the hunt itself. We do not have horses and there are no bridleways. They are now completely banned. It is so wet round here they should not be hunting on horses - but they still are. We used to be hunt supporters, I've been on marches and demos supporting hunting but the worse enemies of hunting are hunters themselves. Especially in the posh hunts - we get Belvoir and Cottesmore.

Lucky you don't have the Quorn as well .

 

[Gator]

Last time they came here was with hounds on foot, before it got band, hounds desided they couldn't catch a fox so set about the sheep, needless to say they took alot home in bags, was a very costly day out for them. Never been back since.

 

[traineefarmer]

I attended 2 countryside marches in London in support of hunting and country sports, but the way in which hunts and shoots are run seems to have changed for the worse in the last couple of decades.

I'm not sure why they've changed. New money? Foreign members? But so much of the common courtesy and respect for fellow countrysiders and their property has gone. It's like they've regressed 150 years and we're back to Lords vs. Serfs.

I wouldn't defend their rights again, in fact, I'd probably be on the other side of the fence.

 

[som farmer]

I attended 2 countryside marches in London in support of hunting and country sports, but the way in which hunts and shoots are run seems to have changed for the worse in the last couple of decades.

I'm not sure why they've changed. New money? Foreign members? But so much of the common courtesy and respect for fellow countrysiders and their property has gone. It's like they've regressed 150 years and we're back to Lords vs. Serfs.

I wouldn't defend their rights again, in fact, I'd probably be on the other side of the fence.

whils't this is not the place for a debate, , I would tend to agree with you, on both counts, the commercial side of shooting is huge, however, on our little shoot, and similar others, it is nice to see the younger generation, making the effort, to dress, to be polite, and take pride in doing so, whether shooting, or beating.

 

[Mc115reed]

We’ve been approached a few times to let the hunt on as my mrs works for the hunt master but she makes enough mess when she goes over the fields on her one horse so have never let them on... easier let Barry from down the pub come every weekend near and after lambing time on foot with his shotgun and set up a tent in the corner of the fields for the night and take the foxes out that way imo ... the hunt ain’t what it used to be it’s full of bratty kids out the city who want too gallop there horses about like dick heads and the hounds ain’t worked like they used to be either the huntsmen don’t have the very much control over them at the best of times

 

[Jon]

Went apoplectic at the hunt terrier man ( why do they need a terrier man) last Boxing Day. He tried to cross an impossible ditch with his quad bike but got stuck in the bottom. He then drove a Navara around the headland of a 24 ha field of wheat to pull the quad out. He got both barrels and some. My father hunts with the same pack so we do have them on the farm. Access WILL NOT last forever, can’t be doing with them, everyone one else has to pay for their sport ( rugby, football, hockey, golf, ) through match fees apart from the crop damaging hunt whom seemingly think they are above that!

That's very interesting.
I had exactly the same thoughts when four gentlemen with happy terriers followed a hunt across my fields without permission.
What are they doing ?
Poor picture, but zoom in and they're just seen.

 

[lloyd]

It's a strange one because you're told to like them
so as to be pro countryside but with my experience
I concurr with most of the comments above.
They always appear at the wettest time of year ,
create as much mess as they can and don't seem
to care about inlamb sheep being spooked.
Last year I watched them pulling at the fence stakes
to get the quad bike through.
They didn't see me until they sped by.

I think they've become obsolete and we have
far greater success shooting foxes than what
were caught before the ban.
It's a pity but times move on!

 

[kill]

My mate calls the local hunt "The Swinger's Club" and at times it's not to far from the truth ?

 

[steveR]

my old man was watching them, as they went across our farm, 4 rode up to him, gave him some wire cutters, and asked him, to cut the bwire fence the bloody farmer had put there ! The conversation with the master, the next day, went something like this, 'the next time any hound is seen on my farm, will be shot, even if some body is with it' ! I relented, to show solidarity, agains't the anti blood sports, some 20 yrs later. But, to give them some praise, they always ring up, before they meet near here, or if they think they might come this way, and ask if they can, and if so, where must they not go.

My late FiL actually did shoot a fox in front of the Hounds many years ago when on a Shoot, and the Hunt came through land they were told not to go near because of sheep grazing and the shoot/land Owner was somewhat pee'd at the Hunt.

 

[primmiemoo]

Sounds as though many Hunts no longer have anyone in the role of Field Master, going by what's on this thread.
If they have, then he or she isn't dinning good manners into riders, quad bikers, or followers on foot - many of whom might be getting away with a free day's following.

 

[Hfd Cattle]

Banned here ....arrogant jumped up tossers . They seem to be unable to understand that I owned the land not them!

 

[An ancient git]

ALWAYS Totally banned here , plus a lot of other local places . Arrogant tossers ; generally the ones in red coats ! ! Anyway , who in hell wants horses galloping about on strong land when it's so wet ....... The ban should have been a total stop to it , not a 'fudged' job ......

 

[kfpben]

We had the hunt meet here a fortnight ago.

All the neighbours are happy to let them on. Obviously sometimes they give instructions- don't go on the new grass ley, avoid the ewes, only come on after 1pm when we'll have finished shooting etc. but generally all good.

I was a teenager at the time of the ban so hunting is my rebellious streak. Healthier than Ketamine at least!