Hunting Methods - Poaching, Tracking, Persistence Hunting, Spotlighting, Beagling, Coursing, Handgun Hunting, Treeing, Chumming (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Poaching, Tracking, Persistence Hunting, Spotlighting, Beagling, Coursing, Handgun Hunting, Treeing, Chumming, Texas Heart Shot, Buffalo Pound, Ruby Site, Bat-Fowling. Excerpt: Bat-fowling is an archaic method of catching birds at night, while they are at roost. It has involved lighting straw or torches near their roost. After waking them up out of their roost, the birds fly toward the flames, where, being amazed, they are easily caught in nets, or beat down. References (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Beagling is the hunting of hares, rabbits, and occasionally foxes with beagles . A beagle pack (20-40 hounds ) is usually followed on foot. However, there is one pack of beagles in the U.S. which are distinguished as being the only hunting pack to hunt fox and be followed on horseback. Beagling is often enjoyed by 'retired' fox hunters who have either sustained too many injuries or lost the agility to ride horseback, or who enjoy the outdoors and the camaraderie of the hunt. It was also traditionally a way for young men to learn how to handle hounds on a smaller scale before they went on to hunt with foxhounds, and many famous public schools and universities had a pack of beagles. Now, however, only three schools (Eton, Radley and Stowe) have a pack, whilst only three university packs remain (the Christ Church and Farley Hill Beagles of Oxford University, the Trinity Foot and South Herts Beagles of Cambride University, as well as the Royal Agricultural College Beagles). Some packs of beagles also have associations with the military, such as the Purbeck and Bovington Beagles(Tank Regiment); the Pimpernel (Royal Signals) Beagles; Per Ardua Beagles (RAF) and Britannia Beagles (Navy). When beagling on foot, the traditional quarry is the hare . Beagles are a...