Falls, fliers and new friends
catherine.austen@futurenet.com
IF hunting is your passion, then working as a hunting correspondent must be one of the best jobs going. It sounds perfect: a free pass to see the wide variety of hunting our small island has to offer. There is one proviso: you have to get on a strange horse in a strange country and go for it. No hanging at the back. You need a good memory for names, and for the stories people tell you, and that’s even before you begin the writing bit.
“The first one I did, I thought, ‘What a privilege to write about something you love, ’” enthuses Adrian Dangar, who became a hunting correspondent for H&H and The Field when he finished hunting hounds. “As a huntsman you pour all your energy into showing sport in your own country, so what everyone else is doing passes over your head. As a correspondent I found it especially interesting to see how other hunts operate.”
