Since the Act came into force, mounted hunts i.e. organised fox hunting groups on horseback continued to practise fox hunting, by offering farmers, landowners and estate managers a pest control service using the pack of hounds to flush out a fox or foxes to be shot by placed guns, a practice that was not followed by any of the mounted hunts prior to 20021The Right Hon Lord Bonomy . (2016). Report of the Review of the Protection of Wild Mammals (Scotland) Act 2002.