What better way to hunt Britain's fastest land mammal than on foot with small hounds? Yet that's what beagle and basset packs do. Fortunately, sabs are also ready to stop them whenever they can. Gizzie spoke with a member of Severn Vale Hunt Saboteurs about hare hunting on foot and what sabbing it looks like today. And there's a brief interlude about so-called 'trap hares'.- A PDF of John Phibbs's Field Sports and Brownian Design can be found here: https://scumremover.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/field-sports-and-brownian-design.pdf- Check out Severn Vale Hunt Saboteurs on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SevernValeSabs/Closing song is "The Hare's Lament" by Susan McKeown.

What better way to hunt Britain's fastest land mammal than on foot with small hounds? Yet that's what beagle and basset packs do. Fortunately, sabs are also ready to stop them whenever they can. Gizzie spoke with a member of Severn Vale Hunt Saboteurs about hare hunting on foot and what sabbing it looks like today. And there's a brief interlude about so-called 'trap hares'. - A PDF of John Phibbs's Field Sports and Brownian Design can be found here: <a href="https://scumremover.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/field-sports-and-brownian-design.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://scumremover.files.wordpress.com/2022/06/field-sports-and-brownian-design.pdf</a> - Check out Severn Vale Hunt Saboteurs on Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/SevernValeSabs/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/SevernValeSabs/</a> Closing song is "The Hare's Lament" by Susan McKeown.

Episode 40 - Hare Hunting Foot Packs

Helping a fox, hare or deer cover their scent is one of the most basic methods of sabotaging hunting. But there is some skill in choosing when and where to use it. So Gizzie Rascal spoke with former HSA tactics officer Colin Skilton about how to effectively use citronella, both as a pre- and post-spray.There is also a bit of history on the term 'red herring'.- Tactics section of the HSA website: https://www.huntsabs.org.uk/tactics/hsa-tactics/- Wordhistories.net article on the term red herring: https://wordhistories.net/2017/07/06/red-herring-origin/Featured image is by Shropshire Hunt Saboteurs. Closing track is "Pigs In a Blanket" by Rudimentary Peni.

Helping a fox, hare or deer cover their scent is one of the most basic methods of sabotaging hunting. But there is some skill in choosing when and where to use it. So Gizzie Rascal spoke with former HSA tactics officer Colin Skilton about how to effectively use citronella, both as a pre- and post-spray. There is also a bit of history on the term 'red herring'. - Tactics section of the HSA website: <a href="https://www.huntsabs.org.uk/tactics/hsa-tactics/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.huntsabs.org.uk/tactics/hsa-tactics/</a> - <a href="http://Wordhistories.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Wordhistories.net</a> article on the term red herring: <a href="https://wordhistories.net/2017/07/06/red-herring-origin/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://wordhistories.net/2017/07/06/red-herring-origin/</a> Featured image is by Shropshire Hunt Saboteurs. Closing track is "Pigs In a Blanket" by Rudimentary Peni.

Episode 39 - Citronella

A person's race/ethnicity doesn't matter until it matters, so Gizzie speaks with Ico about being a person of colour amongst a very white sabbing community.- The academic study from which the quote about the Countryside Alliance is taken can be read here: https://sci-hub.st/https://doi.org/10.1177/0192512117696417- The 2003 Telegraph article can be read here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1440489/Black-woman-is-new-face-of-the-hunt.html- See the Countryside Alliance advert featuring Sarah Lake here: https://www.shutterstock.com/editorial/image-editorial/black-huntswoman-sarah-lake-launching-new-advert-426904aClosing song is "I Heard You Want Your Country Back" by Bob Vylan.

A person's race/ethnicity doesn't matter until it matters, so Gizzie speaks with Ico about being a person of colour amongst a very white sabbing community. - The academic study from which the quote about the Countryside Alliance is taken can be read here: <a href="https://sci-hub.st/https://doi.org/10.1177/0192512117696417" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://sci-hub.st/https://doi.org/10.1177/0192512117696417</a> - The 2003 Telegraph article can be read here: <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1440489/Black-woman-is-new-face-of-the-hunt.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1440489/Black-woman-is-new-face-of-the-hunt.html</a> - See the Countryside Alliance advert featuring Sarah Lake here: <a href="https://www.shutterstock.com/editorial/image-editorial/black-huntswoman-sarah-lake-launching-new-advert-426904a" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.shutterstock.com/editorial/image-editorial/black-huntswoman-sarah-lake-launching-new-advert-426904a</a> Closing song is "I Heard You Want Your Country Back" by Bob Vylan.

Episode 38 - Sabs of Colour

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