![]() To draw a covert without finding the quarry. When hounds search through covert in search of the quarry. In drag hunting the drag is the artificial scent laid for the hounds to follow. Terriers were used to locate the fox before it was killed. The use of spades, metal bars or even adapted walking sticks to dig down into a tunnel system to find a fox. Starts from around mid to late August until the Opening meet normally the last Saturday in October or the first Saturday in November when young hounds are trained to hunt and fox cubs are predominately hunted. The period immediately preceding fox hunting. Generally used to describe a wood but also a hedge, gorse, thicket or field where a fox may lay for shelter. A single hound is one hound, not half a couple. The area within which a particular pack hunts. When a hare has stopped and hides herself by flattening her body on the ground. The killing of the quarry by the hounds without a chase. When hounds search for the lost line of the quarry.The huntsman may take charge of the pack and cast the hounds towards where he/she thinks the hounds will pick up the line or the hounds may cast themselves. CapĪ donation made by hut supporters on the day of the meet. Bye-dayĪny hunting day other than on that is advertised an extra day. BrushĪ male Fallow or Roe deer also a male hare. Hounds bring a deer to bay to bay when they run it to exhaustion and it turns to face them. The quarry is said to break when it leaves a covert. In fox and mink hunting the quarry was often bolted by use of terriers so that it could be hunted again by hounds. To cause the quarry to leave a place of shelter or underground refuge so that it may be chased or killed. ![]() The covert can said to be blank.Failure to find quarry all day is a blank day. BlankĪ huntsman and hounds draw a blank when they fail to put up a quarry from the area they were searching. ![]() Hounds are said to be biddable when they are at their most responsive, that is, when they have just checked. People on foot moving in a line abreast to drive an animal quarry towards guns or hunters. Balled upĪ coursed hare has balled up feet when they are clay clogged. Autumn huntingĪ hound babbles when it speaks unnecessarily. Also known as Bowled Over, Brought to Book, Punished, Dealt With. Hunting euphemism for the killing of the fox.
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