there is a chapter on wolf coursing in a book by teddie roosevelt that goes over his experiances hunting wolves and coyotes with hounds in the states around 1905. They followed the dogs on horseback and often the chase could be over 3 miles and sometimes as far as 10 miles. pretty interesting book with some good info but at the same time a really dry read.
Of interest to this thread is that he notes that the hounds would often lose the coyote if it had more than a 1/2 mile headstart, goes to show that more than a 1/2 mile was tough but up to that range of a headstart was doable for the dogs. Also talks quite a bit about the troubles the dogs had hunting them over the mixed terrain but that they did have success as well. Written from experiance from over 100 years ago but I think it would be pretty similar today. The book is Outdoor pastimes of an american hunter if anyone is interested...
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