Virginia’s Right to Retrieve Law is Challenged
This September a challenge to Virginia’s Right to Retrieve law* was sent to the state’s Supreme Court for consideration.
Better Living Through Titanium Road Trip, Last of Seven Parts
In February 2024, I took a road trip to hunt my way across the US and back after finally being cleared to ride again after back surgery. I hunted to Pennsylvania before returning west to hunt my way home to Nevada.
Early Morning Glow with Piedmont Fox Hounds
Photographer Tiffany Dillion Keen went out with the Piedmont Fox Hounds at the beginning of this season.
BEES!
Nothing is more terrifying during early Autumn Hunting in the East than when a member of field yells “BEES!”. Yellow Jackets are a dangerous surprise that can cause complete chaos in late summer (Yellow Jackets are wasps, not bees, but when in the moment the fewer syllables required to scream a warning is best). There are some precautions everyone should take when riding out in the country in late summer to prevent injury from falling off a panicked horse, anaphylactic shock from a venom allergy (for both horse and rider), and permanently terrifying new riders to never ride out of the ring again.
2024 JNAFHC Finals Change Locations
The Junior North American Field Hunter Championships (the “JNAFHC”) changed their location this year due to unforeseen circumstances in Pennsylvania.
Jersey Fox Hunt: “Taking Breath”
Norman Fine talks about a Currier & Ives print featuring a comical foxhunting scene.
Finding Hounds with Drones
Harriet McFadden writes wonderful hunt reports for her Tennessee Hunts. This one is from 2017 when Cedar Knobs Hounds was still operating and Johnny Gray was still acting huntsman for the Hillsboro Huntsman.
Hunt Attire: No Single Truth
Traditional foxhunting attire is important to me, but I’m not a fanatic.
Why is it important? Respect…for three hundred years of sport, art, literature, and the men and women who had the passion, energy, and intellect to formulate and leave us one of the most exhilarating activities known to man. For these reasons it pains me to see the concepts of appropriate attire ignored in many hunting fields today.
Better Living Through Titanium Road Trip, Part Six
In February 2024, I decided to take a road trip to hunt my way across the US and back after finally being cleared to ride again after a massive back surgery. I hunted all the way to Pennsylvania before turning back west to hunt my way home to Nevada.
Jim Meads (1930-2024), The ‘Running Photographer’
The king of horse and hound photographers, incomparable in number of hunts photographed, nations covered, mileage on foot with camera in hand, and career longevity, died just a month shy of his ninety-fourth birthday.