VA.REB
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Registered: Dec 2009
Location: FLOYD VA.
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OLD SOUTHERN SPORT
This is a fun post. Growing up in the Blue Ridge Mt. of Virginia, fox huntin and coon huntin are a way of life here. My Dad and the Veternarin were big fox huntin buddies when I was a kid in the early 80s. I used to love to go and hear the hounds run, [ what a pretty sound with 15 or 20 hounds ] but it never was about killing the fox, it was just about the hound music. There are not many fox hunters left around here any more , it seems to be diein out , due to lack of land to turn that many hounds loose on [15 to 20 or more ] its also getting to be a problem to find enough land to turn my coon hounds loose on. We live in a very rural part of the state but in the last few years we have had a lot of city people from big citys up north move in and buy large tracts of land and now its getting harder to find a place to hunt. They just dont understand how much huntin [ and hound huntin ] are a part of our culture around here. I would hate to see hound huntin, fox or coon, bear or rabbit, go extinct around here. People just dont realize when you hunt with a hound its not about killin game, its all about the HOUNDS!!
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