10 hunting people I wish I’d known
catherine.austen@futurenet.com
THERE are many reasons to go hunting and a few reasons to be sociable while doing so. That you might have fun and learn something are two of them. Each of us have hunted with people we have met in our lifetimes who have influenced our love of the sport for the better. Sometimes it is by instruction and sometimes by observation.
Captain Ronnie Wallace always said: “Leave 20 minutes extra for a broken bootstrap.”
And, as an observation, after a day with the Four Burrow, before going into a farm tea, I saw master and huntsman Paul Hancock wash off his boots.
But, we can also learn from those we have not met. Here are 10 whom I consider to have upheld the spirit and standards of the sport, not just for themselves and their contemporaries, but also for those who have come after them and never knew them. Something of their example still lives
