The Ledbury met at Pauntley Court in the Gloucs cull zone on Monday 21st December and, mysteriousy, the terriermen came very close to a badger sett, promptly masked up and drove away from a sab standing nearby. They then had some fun digging up an old bottle and driving the quad on the heels of the sab. They were overheard at one stage saying on the phone that they couldn’t do something cos the antis were about. The hounds rioted on a muntjac from the old railway track and were promptly stopped rioting by Tim Pearce May and the terriermen so they can stop them….when they want to. Mark took his hounds off at some speed to the back of Leadon Vale Farm where we caught up with him again. A fox was seen breaking covert heading towards Pauntley School and the line was doused in citronella. As it happened hounds did not pick up.
With scent being bad Mark got down and dirty with the hounds wading through some brambles and another muntjac was put up and ran to safety. The terriermen arrived and threatened to stay with the sabs all day which would have been great (apart from the incessant whining about being filmed) because then we could keep an eye on them. Alas they were not true to their word and they all ran off. The next time we saw them was as they marked a fox to ground and they tried some skulduggery which included dropping off one terrierman “covertly” to where the fox had escaped. He was soon joined by sabs and ran away very fast. They seemed to draw Ryton Coppice blank and then there was some more illegal hunting at Cobhill Rough before they finished in the dark.