Since you liked the last one..

[Sharon]

Without Beagles you can walk around the marlborough forest for a week and not see a hare. I will describe a typical Hare hunt. You release or "cast" your beagles in a likely spot, a nice thick cedar swamp. The Hounds usually one or two, search or follow "night lines" till they "jump" a Hare which starts a race. This usually takes 1 to 30 minutes. Now that the Hare is up and moving out of its daytime "form" its the job of hounds to keep it moving by giving tongue along the Hare's scent trail. Hare run in circular patterns all over their range utilizing their own trails. Its the job of the hunter to intercept the Hare as it runs out in front of the Beagles. I think there are three main ways you would do this. One would be post at the spot where the Hare was jumped. The Hare might run all over hells 1/2 acre but it will eventually come right back to where the race started. Secondly you might be able to pattern the Hare if it uses the same path over and over as circles around its range and post on that path. The third method is to anticipate the route the Hare will take. Through experience you can recognize natural funnels in the terrain that Hare will use. These races can take 3 minutes or 3 hrs. depending on conditions. I hope this helps you understand the hound and hunter working as a team.

Well said! I remember dad and I sitting on a hill near where the rabbit was scented by the beagle, finishing our coffee, and waiting for our beagles to bring the rabbit around and back. It always did. (We bred beagles for 20+ years.)