Boxing Day Hunt Meets

[Matthew Arnold]

Just found this on the BBC. Will make interesting reading to both sides.

 

BBC News - Minister Jim Paice says Hunting Act is unworkable

[tommer9]

Where was that pic taken MAtt?

The portman hunt used to leave from my prep school when it was at Gaunts House...you must know where that was MAtt?

[Matthew Arnold]

Where was that pic taken MAtt?

The portman hunt used to leave from my prep school when it was at Gaunts House...you must know where that was MAtt?

 

I know Gaunts house very well. It was taken outside the Crown Hotel in Blandford. The only time they havent used it was when the paddock was flooded from the river despite the massive flood bank.

[tommer9]

Is gaunts house still some hippy healing retreat sort of establishment?

[Matthew Arnold]

Is gaunts house still some hippy healing retreat sort of establishment?

 

Yep still is a hippy haven

[tommer9]

It was a cool place to go to school.......

[TRADITIONAL LOGGERS]

We were invited on the local moose hunt (Elgjakt) in southern Norge which was a real eye opening event. (helping process a large moose on the mountainside) All sensible rural people had to pass a rifle test before to gain a licence and strict regulations of the ages/sex/numbers of moose to be shot. Meat is used to survive on in the depths of wintertime.

 

Some fox hunts here now seem to be an excuse for a drunken trash around some fields damaging stone walls and being rude to the public and often the fox vanishes into private gardens to escape with the hounds causing hassle. More foxes in towns now and more rabbits in the countryside. Need more trained gamekeepers to keep vermin down.

[APC]

Is gaunts house still some hippy healing retreat sort of establishment?

 

Back in the mid 90's, several of my friends of the time were up here doing something or another. Never quite understood what the place was all about. I hadn't heard the name of the place for years until just now.

[Sam Thompson]

We were invited on the local moose hunt (Elgjakt) in southern Norge which was a real eye opening event. (helping process a large moose on the mountainside) All sensible rural people had to pass a rifle test before to gain a licence and strict regulations of the ages/sex/numbers of moose to be shot. Meat is used to survive on in the depths of wintertime.

 

Some fox hunts here now seem to be an excuse for a drunken trash around some fields damaging stone walls and being rude to the public and often the fox vanishes into private gardens to escape with the hounds causing hassle. More foxes in towns now and more rabbits in the countryside. Need more trained gamekeepers to keep vermin down.

 

Especially in the fells here in the lakes no keeper, lamper, or team of guns can match the packs for foxes killed. Hunting is the best method of fox-control going.

[mdt]

Hunting is the best method of fox-control going.

 

How do you work that out??