Some people curl the lip when they realise I shoot those little chocolate coloured fella's on the edge of the earth.
im with you shoot them all year if i shoot a vixen in milk then ill be out morning noon and night checking earths to make sure i get the cubs as well
I shoot them all year round as I have a job to do for farmers. If you are a recreational foxer then 'stopping' is fine! Just means more for me- LOL
Been in full time game management for a long while, like rabbits little ones grow into big uns and the damage the parents do while feeding the little beggars is totaly unreasonable.
I kill em by all legal methods, and am very hard on them all year round.
If I can kill the parents and then the cubs great, but I will not loose sleep over any fox ever.
I don't want loads of flack for this statement you asked me and i told you HONESTLY.
Kill em all.
If I was told on a shoot that the 2 foxes in the wood were the last 2 in yorkshire I would shoot em both TWICE for good measure.
regards john.
FORGOT TO SAY ON CALL FOR CHARLIE IF ANY COMBINE DRIVERS FIND ONE IN A CROP.
THEN A CALL GOES OUT AND AN AMBUSH IS SET WITH SHOTGUNS AND A HEAFTY LOAD OF BB's
i accept that even tho the chances are slim some cubs will un-fortunatly die due to there parents being killed, its not somthing i set out to do but i shot foxes for the greater good. sure the main reason is for game management and i make no bones about that but many other species benifit by the death of a litter of cubs including hares and songbirds for starters as we all already know. i never go out with the intention to starve a litter of cubs to death i just know its a sad situation which can arise from what i do but before you tar me as a cub starving ******* just take a look at what you shoot, as i bet you shoot rabbits, squirrel, crows, muntjac,pidgeons, magpies, ect ect all year round without a thought for there young? and muntjac and rabbits can have dependant young all year round! so where do you draw the line? as just because somthing looks cute and cuddley like a fox cub doesnt mean it has the right to live or die any more than a ugly wood pidgeon sqwabsir lamp alot
so what happens when you shoot one full of milk clearly with cubs about
that will starve to death .
gone are the days of cymag when a full time keeper who knows his ground
like the back of his hand could find the earth and deal humanely with the cubs
so many of us are off to work early the next day after a nights lamping and probably
not have a clue where the earths are anyway .
I have chosen to lay off for the last five years now but everybody to there own
ATB pete .