I hunted Wally on Friday. These days I rarely ever do back to back hunts because of my back. I really wasn't planning on hunting but kept thinking about it and then at 8 this morning decided to go. It was a great decision.
I was out with THH and we had two really great fox runs. The first was about 25 minutes and the hounds put the fox to ground. The second was about a 35 minute run. It doesn't sound like much except for how fast those runs were. Munchkin was up over 20 MPH many times. On the first run he went over 24 and on the second he was over 25.
His athletic ability is still amazing. On the second run, we got behind a little bit due to some people going in. By the time we got straightened out we could see the rest of the flight heading down the road. So Munchkin was cruising along. We had to jump a bar way which wasn't that big. There was a utility box a couple of strides past the jump. So it required an immediate turn to the left and then a turn to right to get down the road. I knew what was going to happen and committed to it. Munchkin came over the barway and turned in the air to the left. He landed, took one stride and then made the turn to right going down the road. All of this was done at a pretty good speed.
On the first run we had an interesting moment. We were coming up to a coop and were about a stride out. Just then a hound came alongside of us and Munchkin shifted to the left and jumped. My boot whacked the gate post pretty hard. Thank god for steel toed boots.
So a really fun day. We covered 8.7 miles for the day.
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