The best month for hare hunting is perhaps November: this is not only due to the climate, usually characterized by very low temperatures, which facilitate the smell of the hare. hound, but also because at the end of the season it is easier for only the most astute hares to stay alive, those who managed to escape the first weeks of September, when hunting pressure is high and the number of wild animals high. With the beginning of autumn and the progressive opening of the boar hunt, which drives away those who go to hare hunting only for a few weeks, the easier ones, but also those that give less satisfaction in terms of work offered by the dogs, the sincere hounders really start to have fun in this discipline.
It is easy to hunt the hare only the first few weeks of hunting and abandon it when only the most cunning, astute and equally exciting animals remain. The real hunt, the one capable of giving us indelible sensations, printed in the mind of the hound like ink on a white sheet, begins with the first frost, with the crunch of dry leaves under the boots, with the cold that enters your bones but there it is passion that warms the soul. With long combinations that seem to never end, when then, all of a sudden, the hare comes out as if from the magic hat and an infinite continuation begins. Those days when walking for hours does not seem to involve any effort. Those days when you come home in the evening, with the fireplace lit, the exciting stories to share with friends, the hot air in the car at most to dry your clothes.
Il houndism true is that made of waiting, patience, silence, cold winter mornings in which even just witnessing the work of the suit is a source of pride for the canettiere. Those mornings in which the process of advancing on the ground, approaching the hare, can be drawn on a sheet, because it is precise, millimeter, reasoned.
Le hares September they often die in the face of modest jobs, due to the lack of those tricks that allow only the most crafty to save their skin. But only a properly hunted hare should be killed. What lesson could shooting a hare in the lair teach a young hound?
And what emotions could it give the canettiere? It is the animals chased for half a morning, chased as long as there is breath from the faithful hunting companion, who on their return seems to emanate heat from the tonic body, fading the cold air of the forest, to remain etched in the hounder's cultural baggage.
The shot should be understood as a final and eventual act at the end of a job worthy of a hound, carried out according to the observance of the classic four phases.