Surprise on a surreal caper

When the laws around hunting were changed, country people reacted with wonderful flexibility. The ban failed to bring hunting to a standstill, so other sports expanded to fill the gaps left by the new legislation. Foxhunting never died, it simply became something different. This is particularly true of Scotland, where gun packs picked up most of the slack after the 2002 Protection of Wild Mammals (Scotland) Act.

Using a pack of hounds to drive a fox towards waiting Guns is nothing new, but it suddenly became mainstream as the law changed. Ironically, this technique is frequently more effective than the traditional chase and it’s fair to guess that more foxes are now killed by gun packs than were ever caught