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To: KarlInOhio
Horseback fox hunts wouldn't be very American. We'd use pickup trucks and SUVs.

There are an awful lot of places horses can go that pickups and SUVs can't. Motor vehicles aren't useful because their smell keeps the hounds from finding scent, and they can't go up steep inclines, across streams, and over fences and stone walls like horses, foxes, and hounds do. We foxhunters are modernized to the extent of communicating with walkie-talkies in a big country and calling the ambulance with our cell phones, though!

15 posted on 02/19/2005 5:05:11 PM PST by Capriole (the Luddite hypocritically clicking away on her computer)
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To: Capriole
There are an awful lot of places horses can go that pickups and SUVs can't.

For example: Afghanistan..

19 posted on 02/19/2005 5:15:19 PM PST by wildehunt (follow those hounds..)
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To: Capriole

Besides, foxhunting w/o horses would just not be foxhunting.

Carry on.


33 posted on 02/19/2005 5:59:14 PM PST by cinives (On some planets what I do is considered normal.)
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