Silverton’s Valentine’s Day meet at Angie Prouse’s Creedy Barton wasn’t quite the day they were expecting. The lovely sunshine had brought out a decent-sized field and more quadbike followers than we’ve seen in a while, several of them equipped with terriers for digging-out. Not long after spotting sabs though, several of those disappeared.
Huntsman Chris Matterface evidently didn’t want to do too much in the presence of sabs and with the drone following his every move. He took hounds north from Shobrooke Mill towards Furze and then on towards Coombe Barton and Stockleigh Wood. Hounds picked up some scent and marked to ground at a badger sett we know well.
They then moved east towards the car park at Raddon Hill, via the track owned by South West Water – who apparently don’t give the hunt permission to use it for hunting. From Raddon Hill car park the support watched the hunt as they drew the various hedges and copses between Lynch Plantation and Kitlake.
At around 2pm the hunt began retracing their steps and headed back to the meet. A nice short day for us.
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