Don't know where you are, but we already have an efficient system available to us, The Scottish Hill Packs (fox hounds) cover everything pretty much north of the central belt.
Don't know if there is anything similar in the south of Scotland so possibly there might be an opening there for you.
Fox drives are a waste of time on a well keepered shoot. We have stopped paying for them to come after the numbers flushed to the guns is usually nil. I shoot more in the year than a hound pack will ever achieve. It is however a good indicator of good keepering.
In my view, proper fox control should involve a number of approaches. Rifle, snare and hounds/drives work well together as a year round approach.
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i think it depends on the mix of woods to grass on the estate, lamping on some of the estates, I have hunted is very difficult, we used to run hounds before birds came out of the pens, and again in February before birds started nesting, best day 13, average over 12yrs 7, if you can lamp that many in one outing then you have a lot of foxes.That is your opinion but i think your name may be a giveaway? I have had more foxes in one outing than all our hound packs have ever flushed on the estate.. a lot of effort for next to no results. You are welcome to prove me wrong, FREE of course?
I was with you novice.. right up until the point that hunts were being interviewed on national TV saying how inhuman shooting foxes were and portraying a bunch of cowboys shooting foxes with 6 shot at 50yds. Now they can go f**k themselves. I went to the first countryside march to support them as another fieldsports user, after i have heard that tack taken several times while discussing it with hunt members and the likes, ive run out of time for such people.
Would rather them not stirring up my pheasants either for the sake of maybe 1 fox.
Fox drives are a waste of time on a well keepered shoot. We have stopped paying for them to come after the numbers flushed to the guns is usually nil. I shoot more in the year than a hound pack will ever achieve. It is however a good indicator of good keepering.