Country men with guns surrounded by barking hounds (8)
I believe the answer is:
honduras
'country' is the definition.
(Honduras is an example)
'men with guns surrounded by barking hounds' is the wordplay.
'men with guns' becomes 'ra' (abbreviation for Royal Artillery).
'surrounded by' is an insertion indicator.
'barking' indicates anagramming the letters (I've seen this in other clues).
'hounds' is an anagram of 'hondus'.
'ra' put into 'hondus' is 'HONDURAS'.
(Other definitions for honduras that I've seen before include "Central American country, capital Tegucigalpa" , "Land" , "US hadron in Central America, strangely" , "Central American republic" , "Country of Central America" .)