Out last night.

[finnbear270]

Set up last night in a defilade one of the pair was using to transit the lower part of the farmland, a dryish ditch, the first year vixen walked straight into the impact at 9.08pm, number two was seen way off in the distance, but before anything else developed I was enveloped in thick fog, initially I thought someone had a barn fire, but there was no smell or stinging eyes ... poor old mergers rendered useless , So early bath for a change.

 

[2Ll’s]

Set up last night in a defilade one of the pair was using to transit the lower part of the farmland, a dryish ditch, the first year vixen walked straight into the impact at 9.08pm, number two was seen way off in the distance, but before anything else developed I was enveloped in thick fog, initially I thought someone had a barn fire, but there was no smell or stinging eyes ... poor old mergers rendered useless , So early bath for a change.

Job well done there

 

[Len the dog]

Up to now I have always left my dog at home when foxing but my wife said he’s unbearable, howls like a wolf for a while and then just flounces around and huffs like a petulant teenager, so last night I thought I would give it a go.
Initially he thought it was just another walk around the farm looking for game but after I had let him run off his natural Springer enthusiasm he began to settle down. He pretty soon got the hang of this new nighttime activity and was walking to heel beautifully, as I crept around hedgerows stopping to scan he was matching me step for step. When I stopped in my usual spot that overlooks three different directions he spent the entire time sat at my feet and when I shot the only fox of the night he didn’t flinch.
End result, one happy dog and one more than happy dad.


The only room for improvement is a new coat for him that doesn’t swish as it brushes my wellies.



A decent dog fox in very good condition.

 

[Smellydog]

Was your rifle ok after it fell over?

 

[Smellydog]

I had my sprocker out with me from a tiny pup.
She grew up knowing what job we were on at any given time and what was required. A great hunting partner she was.


I'm happy for you

 

[finnbear270]

Good looking lever gun.

 

[Len the dog]

Was your rifle ok after it fell over?

You may jest but I did actually drop it last night. I was taking it off my shoulder and fannying about with something else and it fell onto its muzzle on the mud and tipped over to land on the scope.

Fortunately the ground was soft and it hadn’t plugged the moderator, although I do carry a boresnake. A bit of mud on the scope and NV but no damage. However it wasn’t all bad because it made me notice that I’d lost the retaining cap off the windage turret, took the screw in cap off the elevation and put it on the windage as less likely to knock that one off.

So the dog did good, me not so good.

Cheers

 

[finnbear270]

Least you didn't have a major event like me a month or so back .....a decocked bolt that then decided to spew its internals round the back of the truck in long grass.

 

[finnbear270]

Arming up with the Merger XL unit soon as it lands here ......... Charlie beware.

 

[Foxyboy43]

Call me old fashioned but I hate losing brass so when I lost a .308 case last night in foot long grass I virtually ploughed the sodding and sodden meadow with my bare hands trying to find it - without success. Always a worry that some silly beast would ingest it or injure it’s mouth and incur the farmer’s wrath so this a.m. back I went with something a dear old pal left me about 9 years ago and I have never used - a metal detector!
It took literally seconds to find the offending case in the well-flattened grass but only after 45 minutes in the rain figuring out how to use the bloody thing - more damned buttons than the Pard 008!
Still I now have the lost case and two spare batteries for the house fire alarms so a result all round!

 

[Smellydog]

Call me old fashioned but I hate losing brass so when I lost a .308 case last night in foot long grass I virtually ploughed the sodding and sodden meadow with my bare hands trying to find it - without success. Always a worry that some silly beast would ingest it or injure it’s mouth and incur the farmer’s wrath so this a.m. back I went with something a dear old pal left me about 9 years ago and I have never used - a metal detector!
It took literally seconds to find the offending case in the well-flattened grass but only after 45 minutes in the rain figuring out how to use the bloody thing - more damned buttons than the Pard 008!
Still I now have the lost case and two spare batteries for the house fire alarms so a result all round!

I lost a 30wcf case last February and still look when I pass the spot.

 

[Len the dog]

Me too, I even looked on Fleabay at those little handheld metal detectors that the pros use in the holes they’ve dug.

 

[finnbear270]

You might have turned up something worth more than a lost case … Hammerwich hoard finder gets £3.285 million

 

[old 30-06]

A few years ago now, but whilst helping a keeper at a very large pheasant and partridge shoot in Kent he actually witnessed a van turn up into one of the shoot's fields, just off a big main road. Two men opened the back up and out of cages they let a large number of fox's go into the heart of the shoot. He was with rifle, and after they drove off he started shooting them. He got seven before the rest hid in cover. I went there the following night and accounted for another two. We were not sure if it was an animal charity doing a multiple release, or a "catch and release" pest control operator doing the same. Either way its a very poor thing to do, both for the town foxes themselves, and the shoot they liberated them on.

 

[potshotpat]

You might have turned up something worth more than a lost case … Hammerwich hoard finder gets £3.285 million

Did he find a couple of hundred rifle primers.

 

[Foxyboy43]

I lost a 30wcf case last February and still look when I pass the spot.

Indeed and who knows, one day ……
Last time I saw a metal detector used was when I was in our local RFDs a few years ago and a very distressed chap had just returned to see if one of the sidelocks of his brand new utterly magnificent AYA no.1 de luxe was on the floor of the shop - he had been in earlier - en route to first day out at a nearby big shoot and had called in to show the RFD pal his new purchase - which of course had included a demo of just how easy it was to remove/replace said locks. Somewhere between the shop and the shoot carpark, only two miles away, one of the locks had detached and simply disappeared - never to be found!
Expensive demo!

 

[finnbear270]

A good few years back, I had a Hi Cap Land Rover two seater, I put a hard top on the back & boarded it out over the cab back to front, two full grown adults were able to lie prone & shoot from it, standing on the tailgate gave a comfy ride for the rifleman while someone drove the field margins, this was in the days of lamping, I also fitted a tip over to the rear scarff ring gadget / shooting rail, this gave a rear gunner effect ... since moving on through a couple of Jimny's I have been caught out with those that are spotted to my rear, having either to jump down off the the towball shooting step, or hope the target moved into a better spot ....A small experimental version of a shooting stick has arrived this morning,
Just need to modify the top to accomodate the rifles fore end.

 

[Cyres]

Even worse to loose a .204 case esp a Nosler one. I couldn't fathom out why I couldn't find a case which I put in my pocket. It transpired that there was a hole in the corner so it worked its way out and down inside my trouser leg onto the ground. Typical not to be wearing wellies that night. So lost in about 100yds stretch of a big silage field.
D

 

[Foxyboy43]

Even worse to loose a .204 case esp a Nosler one. I couldn't fathom out why I couldn't find a case which I put in my pocket. It transpired that there was a hole in the corner so it worked its way out and down inside my trouser leg onto the ground. Typical not to be wearing wellies that night. So lost in about 100yds stretch of a big silage field.
D

O dear! Black armband time - U wana borrow a metal detector?

 

[finnbear270]

Checked out the forecast for tonight, Pity about the moon though, will have to hunch up somewhere, I have had the upgrade arrive yesterday ... XL 50's all charged up & ready to rumble.