We paid a rare visit to the Burton Hunt today, who met a few miles North of Lincoln, with our good friends from Derby Huntsabs. This elusive hunt haven't been sabbed much for the past few years after going underground following heavy pressure from sabs.
Arriving at the meet we were surprised by the size of the field and the number of redcoats but listening to their introductory speeches we realised they were holding a joint meet with the Essex foxhounds and they were in fact hunting the Essex hounds.
The hunt set off and quickly headed into a large field of head high grass. Their arguments that they were following a trail appeared weak as it would have been impossible to lay a trail through the crop. Foxes and deer were seen escaping from the grass and sabs used a gizmo to good effect to call the hounds off a fox.
Nottingham sabs were briefly detained by Lincolnshire's finest following allegations of aggrevated trespass but no hunt member could be found to back up these claims, rather saying how polite we'd been.
We didn't lose sight of the hounds all day and were on hand in the middle of the afternoon when the hounds rioted through a village after a fox. Hounds caused havoc running through gardens and jumping over peoples fences but using voice calls we were able to halt their progress and watch as an embarrassed huntsman gathered his pack.
At 3.30 it looked like they were going to call it a day but they carried on and finally finished at 6pm in total darkness. Tired sabs were happy to see them return to their meet satisfied that we'd had a very successful day
Arriving at the meet we were surprised by the size of the field and the number of redcoats but listening to their introductory speeches we realised they were holding a joint meet with the Essex foxhounds and they were in fact hunting the Essex hounds.
The hunt set off and quickly headed into a large field of head high grass. Their arguments that they were following a trail appeared weak as it would have been impossible to lay a trail through the crop. Foxes and deer were seen escaping from the grass and sabs used a gizmo to good effect to call the hounds off a fox.
Nottingham sabs were briefly detained by Lincolnshire's finest following allegations of aggrevated trespass but no hunt member could be found to back up these claims, rather saying how polite we'd been.
We didn't lose sight of the hounds all day and were on hand in the middle of the afternoon when the hounds rioted through a village after a fox. Hounds caused havoc running through gardens and jumping over peoples fences but using voice calls we were able to halt their progress and watch as an embarrassed huntsman gathered his pack.
At 3.30 it looked like they were going to call it a day but they carried on and finally finished at 6pm in total darkness. Tired sabs were happy to see them return to their meet satisfied that we'd had a very successful day