Today we were at Yadkin and it was a good day for hunting. Obviously a lot of people agreed as the fields were big. I think we numbered over 40 souls including several juniors that were already on the Christmas break. The map above is the summary for the day. The blue line is the second flight and the red are the hounds. The hounds covered about 9.7 miles while the second flight covered about 5.6.
This map immediately above is a reduction down to just the fox run. Hounds are the red line and second flight is the blue line. We were about ten minutes into the hunt and had just come around the horse pastures and were ducking back into the woods when the hounds hit. They were moving immediately and heading west when they intersected the farm road that comes off Buck Mountain Ford. They were coming down the road and when they got to the base of the mountain, up they went. They were just below the top of the mountain when they started to turn to our left (as we were positioned on the road).
The second flight was on the road when the fox bolted across the road and was spotted by a member of the second flight. The hounds followed a few minutes later on exactly that line. They then cut between some pastures and circled around in front of the house before carrying the run into the woods that are between the house and trailer parking. It was in there that the hounds lost the fox.
It was a fast run that went for about 20 minutes. During that time the second flight was doing some cruising around 18 MPH on those trails in the woods but the hounds were turning a pretty sporty 30 MPH at times.
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