On Saturday we chased the “Stoke Hill & Dartmoor” Beagles out of Devon! We put their name in quotation marks because this hunt no longer seem to be kennelled anywhere near Stoke Hill (on the edge of Exeter), nor north Dartmoor, nor even Devon! Having spectacularly fallen out with their previous hosts, the Silverton Foxhounds (apparently the Silverton didn’t feed the beagles due to rent arrears!), this hunt had to go all the way to the middle of Cornwall to find a willing host for their pack. We hear they are now kennelled with the Four Burrow Hunt in Redruth.
Saturday was a good day for hares, and a bad day for hare hunters. We found several pickup trucks meeting at Brousentor Farm, near Bagga Tor on Dartmoor. Sabs closed in on them before they even had a chance to unload the hound trailer. Instead this poor pack of beagles were left wailing in the back, whilst the hunt members ate pasties, trying so hard to pretend like we didn’t just completely ruin their day.
It was a busy day on Dartmoor, with groups of schoolchildren training for the ten tors. We wonder what they would’ve thought about an illegal hare hunt happening right next to them.
After an hour the loaded hound trailer took off, and our vehicle team pursued them east towards Exeter, then all the way in the opposite direction going as far as Camelford in Cornwall. They fled at a speed of 6ppph (pork pies per hour). Meanwhile our sab teams stood their ground with the rest of the scum still at the meet, through sunshine and hailstorms, to ensure no hares were harmed by this rejected bunch of crusty criminals. Eventually after several hours, and with the hound van chased into the next county, the hunt supporters got the message and went home.
After this we received intel that the Dartmoor hunt were meeting at the Delamore Estate at Cornwood, not far from Ivybridge. We got there as soon as we could and found hunt vehicles unboxed at West Rook farm. Several of the loitering scum looked less than happy to see us, as sabs made their way onto the moor. Our teams found the hunt on Penn moor as they were heading back to the meet. We followed them and watched them pack up at 5pm. We can only hope they had a bad day of hunting!
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