Today was an odd hunting day. We were supposed to be at Christmas Hill and we were, briefly. We were all there and mounted up when about five deal ran across the field and into the woods, followed by a pack of hounds. Not our hounds. Apparently some deer hunters were out and about with there hounds. We were milling about when we heard the first of several gun shots.
Matthew at that point said that unloading our hounds was out of the question.
We were standing around deciding what to do when MFH Liz King asked if it were possible would be willing to relocate to another fixture or stay and trail ride. The vote was everyone to nothing to try to relocate. Liz got busy on the phone and we were given permission to hunt at Liberty Corner. So everyone loaded back up and off we went. I must say there were some confused hunt horses including mine. Munchkin could see why he should load when he hadn't gone hunting yet.
Unfortunately, Liberty Corner was kind of like "Twas The Night Before Christmas" - not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. Not quite 100% true. We did see a rabbit and we did spook up a couple of pheasants.
We covered about seven miles today on what was an overcast but nice day to ride.
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