Posted on 09/16/2007 5:05:07 AM PDT by Kaslin
I once drove a pony in a sulky, that's the extent of my driving experience! Never ridden a Holsteiner, we have a Hanoverian in the barn, but I look like a peanut up on top of him (I have short legs). I have never seen a Bavarian Warmblood -- what are they crossed with?
My girl is a pretty Thoroughbred, just at 16 hh, she's racing bred but you'd never know it, she couldn't catch cold if you spotted her two furlongs. But she's a sweet girl, a keen jumper and dead set reliable all day long.
you hunt coyote with hounds? on horse back?
i guess i’m just lazy. i’ll just set up with a .223 and pop ‘em from 100+yards.
The huntsman casts the hounds and they pick up a scent -- sometimes it's a fox, sometimes it's a coyote. You never know what you're going to get, but you know it's a coyote when everybody is galloping as hard as they can go, and STILL can't catch up with the hounds!
If you're not going to mount the head, save those antlers for the dogs to chew on. My dogs get shed deer antlers to gnaw on and they LOVE them. Plus they don't splinter and they don't smell bad. . . unlike the raw or smoked beef bones.
Geez, looks like a freight train with antlers. Is that an elk? Caribou?
We’re definitely mounting the head with this one. I do give the dogs deer sheds and they do love them! ;-)
That is an elk, and a pretty darn good one. It scored 300 Pope & Young, which is enough to get it in the books.
My husband says they're imagining that they slew a 6-pointer and are gnawing on the last of the spoils of the hunt.
I wish I knew what is going on behind those big brown eyes . . . .
ROFLMAO! I always thought so too.............. Good thing the hunt wasn't invented by the Scotts........
Just having fun with the clothes, not the sport which is cool.
An old farmer and friend of mine in N.W. Kansas hunts coyotes with greyhounds. He has one real huge one which is part wolf, part Russian Wolfhound and part greyhound.........
They don't hunt with horses tho, only old flatbed pickups with the kennels on the back. They drive the old dirt roads with the "pack" in the kennels with their heads poked out the sides. When Kenny sees a coyote out in the field, the dogs usually do too and he pulls a cord that drops the sides of the kennel down then off the dogs go..............Then its buckle up for the ride of your life.
LOL! That must be something to behold!
Wait a minute, I thought Ted Nugent was Gonzo...
On one of my pheasant hunting trips out there a number of years ago, we did go out one late afternoon but saw no coyotes. So it was nothing more than taking the dogs out on the road for a 30 mph exercise run (and they were only cruising). They did end up with a badger which was a sight to behold. 5 dogs, each with an apendage in its mouth and the badger still was able to rip the hind leg of one of the dogs wide open.
Kenny related the story of losing 2 of his best and fastest greyhounds on one such hunt. They were running across the fields so fast in pursuit of a coyote that they could not negotiate a wash-out ravine and they flew across and hit the wall on the other side, breaking their necks.........
Bookmarked
One(perhaps the only) friend we have in France, is looking for advice on a gun purchase. Maybe some of us could help him out. http://www.thedissidentfrogman.com/blog/link/friday-open-gun-advice-thread/
The whole site is worth reading...
Let me know when you've got the nerve to jump something this size . . . let alone riding aside. (That ain't me!)
Too bad about your friend losing his greyhounds. When dogs get really concentrated on something, they don't even notice hazards. We have retrievers run through barbed wire, broken glass, etc., never notice they're hurt. My agility dog (also a Lab) cut herself open on a crate door and ran two courses before I noticed she was lagging a little bit -- 10 stitches and she never made a sound.
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