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Though not the oldest pack of hounds in England, the Pytchley can compete with any other in the matter of history, and, for reasons which are apparent to those who may have hunted in the country, which lies partly in Northamptonshire and partly in Leicestershire, historically it has often been called one of the most...

This view of future threats may come as a surprise to those whose hunt clubs are run well and by folk who care passionately about their hounds, the quality of hunting and their particular hunt club and its history. But I believe the biggest threats to mounted hunting currently in the USA are an increasing...

Based on his years of expererience hunting hounds on either side of the Atlantic Andrew Bozdan responds to the author’s thoughts in this article which we published last year https://www.bailyshuntingdirectory.com/news_and_articles/the-english-foxhound-in-america-in-the-early-20th-century/ Firstly, that was a very interesting article regarding the importance of the English foxhound in America. It was of course penned in 1911 and as...

Author Andrew Bozdan  has been deeply  involved with hounds and hunting for over 45 years working as professional and amateur hunt staff for at least 9 different packs. He has hunted hounds on 3 different continents including Foxhounds, Beagles and Bloodhounds. First of all I’d like to say how much it pains me to write...

On the first page of Roger Scruton’s On Hunting—his homage to foxhunting—there is a sentence which leaps out from the page like a 17 hands Irish Hunter risking an untrimmed blackthorn hedgerow: “Most of those who hunt are ordinary decent people who stand, in my experience, noticeably above the moral norm.” This does not, of…

Sadly the “native” foxes of Lakeland appear to have become almost extinct in the very late 1890s or possibly early 1900s. No research was ever done on them and little documentary evidence is available. They pass briefly through the written reports of fox hunts prior to their demise and no doubt somewhere in a valley-head...

The Greyhound Fox “Fierce as a tiger, and long as a hay-band, and with an amiable cast of features very like the Chancellor of the Exchequer,” is very bad to kill “top o’ t’ ground,” and still worse when he gets into a burn (borran). Jackson Gillbanks 1870 NB Material reproduced on this thread is...

During the year 1877, an attempt was made to have the huntsman hunt the hounds with less assistance from their owners, but as they did not know him, being kept at home, they were gloriously independent, and hunted themselves to suit themselves.” If the huntsman was of no obvious use, however, the master asserted himself,...

The story of a hound type that is probably lost to history – the Old Pytchley sort Those who search for facts about the old-style Pytchley hounds will find very little in the usual books of reference on such topics, and it is only by an occasional passage in some old writer speaking of the...

Artist and diarist Joe Appleyard has a day with the Glaisdale, a Yorkshire based pack, where, after a day’s hunting he found himself warmly welcomed into the company of  “a hard hunting, hard riding, hard drinking crowd.” A quick glance at the map, shows Glaisdale and its environs tucked away in a northern part of...