Do people still hunt foxes on horseback with hounds? Like in the old days with those fancy jackets on? It’s prob for rich folks if so.

It's still popular in a few south states ..think South Carolina is like the main one if I remember right. But the common man deal is more fox pens in the south.

I know it's still kinda big in the UK but after talking with a lot of those guys isn't definitely gonna be dying off soon because how divided they are. All the outdoors groups just throw each other under the buss so they ac last a lil longer over there it seems

Interesting, thanks Wolfdog! I had imagined it would be big in England.

It’s big in England , Ireland, and other countries. In Asian areas , especially on the Himalayan steppes too . I have rode many warm blood hunters in cross country racing to that end, it is fun . Here they are done following scent trails , not the fox itself . For me it is fun with the group of superb riders and horses , with well trained hounds sticking close to the masters . A tradition of freedom and working with the ultimate team of dogs , horses and horsemen .

I like that!

There used to be a group that did it near Smithton Pa. Some of the older gents started letting the dogs run while they sat around a fire towards the end of the 80's early 90's.

It was quite a shock to be walking into a treeing hound and a guy on a horse come riding by you in the pitch black.

Northern Ireland it is legal. Rest of the UK illegal. There is a group by Saint Louis: bridlespur.com

There is one farm that still chase with horses close to me.
Not to change the subject,but i have heard or read that
the reason we have frosty fox, the English sent fox over here.

Used to be SO common here.
Growing up I heard many stories about chasing fox with 20/30/ 40 horses under the ( hood).

Sad to see these wonderful old hunting traditions die out.

Still active in Chester County & Lancaster County PA. They try to payoff neighboring Amish to NOT let trappers trap their farms. I have had to wait until some of the fox hunt neighbors went to FL for extended winter vacations to set up. Amish want to get along with their neighbors, for the most part.

There is a club in Lexington. It’s a rich man’s game and more about sipping bourbon at their fancy club house. I trapped a members property and he wanted me to keep any fox alive for him. Illegal here so I couldn’t

There's a big group of them about 25 miles from me.they have a few thousand acres and have people take care of the horses and dogs.they just do it for fun don't really hunt them. Think most of them come from chicago

When the kids were little, the dog pack chased a fox through my yard.
Later the horses and riders came trotting down the road.
My oldest said something like,
"The English are coming the English are coming".

Their perpetual trespassing and property damage is frowned on.
Dogs can't read you know.
They need large tracts of private land.

They are real nice when fishing for info
or trying to bribe and buy live fox.
The rest of the time they bad mouth and hate me
according to farmers.
Just gossip, I'm sure.

And here we go, haters gotta hate.

Used to hunt fox here but now you hunt coyotes with old clothes on and fancy trucks with radio collars attached to the dogs

There is at least one hunt in our area that I know of. A couple came into our business in late November fully decked out in the riding gear. I would guess it is merely a social event here not enough foxes around to have much hope of finding one.

The last hunts here were on the barrier beach, last place there was enough land... I watched one hunt where the dogs chased a deer into the bay and it swam off, the horseman came by and I told them your dogs are chasing deer, pointing to the swimming deer, he said no, the dogs only chase fox, and that the foxes are so smart that they run under the deer. I asked him if said fox was riding the deer swimming away?
He didn't want to talk anymore, lol . I think that might have been their last hunt...

It was outlawed in England and most of Ireland, but is still done there. Kind of a big deal when they outlawed it there a few years ago to still put on and go to the hunts, an act of mass civil disobedience.

Still done here in places, although the common quarry is now coyotes rather than red fox (it is acceptable in most hunts for the dogs to run red fox, grey fox, or coyote). Many of the hunts of disappeared because of urban sprawl. Between highways (dangerous for hounds) and the breakup of so many old farms into smaller tracts sold to people moving from the cities that didn't want anybody on their land and/or "tormenting the poor fox."

I used to correspond with a couple old houndmen that handled the dogs for horseback hunt clubs, but they have passed on now. The vast majority of the participants in the hunts were there for horses and the social aspects, the hounds were just an excuse to ride pell mell through the countryside with their friends. Most of them had no interest in training or handling the dogs, so they had dog handlers hired that handled the dogs during the hunts and took care of them and trained them between hunts.

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