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The deer of Exmoor have been hunted since Norman times, when Exmoor was declared a Royal Forest. Collyns stated the earliest actual record of a pack of staghounds on Exmoor was 1598. In 1803 the "North Devon Staghounds" became a subscription pack. In 1824/5 30 couples of hounds, the last of the true staghounds, were sold to a baron in Germany.〔Collyns, p.14〕 Today, the Devon and Somerset is one of three staghounds packs in the UK, the others being the Quantock Staghounds and the Tiverton Staghounds. All packs hunt within Devon and Somerset. ==Season== The approximate dates of the hunting season are: *Hind hunting: 1 November-28 February *Stag hunting: * *Autumn: August to third week in October ; formerly 12 August to 8 October, according to Collyns.〔Collyns, p.63〕 * *Spring: last week of March, continues about three weeks.〔Scarth-Dixon, William, p.16〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Devon and Somerset Staghounds」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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