4-Day Hunt Weekend Extravaganza

Glenmore Hunt hosts a foggy morning of huntingWith the price of gas soaring over the summer and horse events everywhere suffering low attendance, the organizers of Virginia Hunt Week (VHW) made a tough decision to cancel for this year. Before we had long enough to mourn the loss of VHW ’08, a new idea was born – the 4 Day Hunt Weekend Extravaganza!  The Masters of the Oak Ridge Fox Hunt, Glenmore Hunt, Rockbridge Hunt and the Bedford County Hunt teamed up to offer foxhunters four days of hunting and socializing in their different hunt countries, with an afternoon of Beagling and the Glenmore Hunt Ball thrown into the mix.

 

Read more...
 
Welcome to Foxhunting in Virginia

Foxhunting is a long-standing Virginia tradition, ever since colonial times. George Washington kept a pack of foxhounds! To this day, our beautiful and gracious state is known as a mecca for fox hunters. We hope to impart to you some of the excitement and pure joy of mounted foxhunting in Virginia with news, articles, a calendar of events, a FAQs, hunt reports, and much more.

Those of you who already know the “thrill of the chase” will use the site as a resource for finding places to hunt, links of interest to fox hunters, and news and other information.

For those of you who have been thinking about hunting but don't know where to start, this is the place! Start with our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about hunting, and most of all, don't be afraid to contact us with your questions. Chances are if you are asking, someone else is wondering the same thing. Just click the contact us link and ask away!

Cindy Morton, MFH Rockbridge Hunt
& Cheryl Microutsicos, Stonewall Hounds

 

Your Opinion?

How do you clip your horse for hunting?
 

Quote of the Day

Hunting with hounds is the natural and most humane way of controlling the popluation of all four quarry species. Hunting leaves no wounded or damaged survivors.

From Hunting -- The Facts

Hunting -- The Facts. Hunting Associaton of Ireland Ltd., Friarstown Lodge, Grange, Kilmallock, Co Limerick