Cubbing Saturday October 10th, 2009 - 1:00PM
Shawnee Hounds (Denmark Unit Pyramid State Park)

Huntsman: Mark Smith

Whips: Lee Carson

First Field: Fieldmaster Anne
Second Field:

17 couple hounds

GPS readings 9.57 miles. Max Speed 23.4 mph 3 hrs and 41 minutes

Lunch/Brunch – Tailgate provided by several people.

It was a lovely sunny day. Temperature ranged from 55 to 57 deg. F. Wind was from the North at 3-9 mph. The Barometric pressure was falling.

I hauled down there with my friend Lauren. We just took two of my horses to simplify transportation. It was exactly two hours door to door from our farm. The Denmark fixture is nice because there is ample parking and a nice restroom facility near the parking area. It had been rainy and the ground promised to be very muddy.

We got down there in plenty of time to introduce ourselves and get our horses ready. Everyone was very friendly and I met some new people. Still trying to remember names.

We headed East from the parking area, Almost immediately the hounds started speaking. Turns out they found a skunk and a couple of the hounds got skunked pretty badly. We then headed south working the eastern edge of a covert that was along side one of the large ponds left from the strip mining.

Our first jump was a coop in hot wire into a cow pasture, we were riding well in the back and Lauren was riding in front of me. The horse two in front of her ran out to the right of the coop and hit the hot wire, unseating the rider. The wire made a twang noise which set off the horse in front of Lauren which veered to the left and ran through the hot wire on the other side and also unseated the rider. Both horses took off running to the west. At this point we opted for the gate and I then help Kerry’s horse while she worked at trying to patch the hot wire back together so the cattle would not get out.

We finally moved on and worked to the West and then to the north and made a huge circle from where we started. The hounds treed a raccoon at one point late in the hunt and spoke occasionally but it was basically a blank day. We worked our way back to the trailers and called it quits for the day.