Out last night.
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My dogs love them ! They eat every one of them.Squirrels, vicious bast””ds, Katie had the last one it looked like a collection for a black pudding comp.
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Anyway,back to business. Yesterday a trail camera picked up a fox at a bait pipe shortly before 8pm. I parked up a couple of hundred yards from my vantage point and kitted up. I wasn’t 100% sure where this one was approaching from but the wind was in my favour. Shortly before 8 I saw Charlie approaching down wind. He paused to clamber through a fence. 80 yard shot and lights out.
I hung around for 10 minutes in case there was a companion. Nothing appeared so I walked back to the’Lux. Moderator off. Magazine stored, rifle in the case and put the tailgate up. A final scan of the fields and there was another fox trotting down a long field. I frantically put everything together while taking the occasional, read frequent, glance at the fox. Ready to go I headed down the track, clambered over a low gate and where had the bu##er gone now ?
I clocked him in the next field but some Harris fencing, 2 stock fences and trees were making a shot difficult.
Patience is a virtue and a necessity in this game.
The fox crossed into a paddock with a cow and young calf in it which queered my pitch a bit. It disappeared into the far end of a wood. Years of watching and shooting generations of fox’s here has given me the knowledge of their routes. I’m wrong sometimes
. I reckoned that he would appear at one of two gates out of the wood. And it would take 7-10 minutes if he didn’t find a tasty morsel on the way. In due course he appeared and I sent him on his merry way.
Picked them up this morning, 2 well grown dog fox’s. A decent stokie to celebrate ! Maybe the boyfriends of last week’s vixens.
I hung around for 10 minutes in case there was a companion. Nothing appeared so I walked back to the’Lux. Moderator off. Magazine stored, rifle in the case and put the tailgate up. A final scan of the fields and there was another fox trotting down a long field. I frantically put everything together while taking the occasional, read frequent, glance at the fox. Ready to go I headed down the track, clambered over a low gate and where had the bu##er gone now ?
I clocked him in the next field but some Harris fencing, 2 stock fences and trees were making a shot difficult.
Patience is a virtue and a necessity in this game.
The fox crossed into a paddock with a cow and young calf in it which queered my pitch a bit. It disappeared into the far end of a wood. Years of watching and shooting generations of fox’s here has given me the knowledge of their routes. I’m wrong sometimes
. I reckoned that he would appear at one of two gates out of the wood. And it would take 7-10 minutes if he didn’t find a tasty morsel on the way. In due course he appeared and I sent him on his merry way.Picked them up this morning, 2 well grown dog fox’s. A decent stokie to celebrate ! Maybe the boyfriends of last week’s vixens.
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David.evans
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I’ve two barns full of stacks mate and there are 3 holes there I’m n the same mind as you , trail cam going in the week end
Atb mate
Atb mate
blueeyes
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They will use the bails we used to bolt them fae them regular especially when the ground is sodden , they are a few vids on Y tube of them being bolted to guns with terriers in bails and barns
Foxyboy43
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Finally found a Welsh language call.
Foxyboy43
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David.evans
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Yep I’ve one it’s very squeaky, but not very loud
maybe it’s the way forward 
Another foxy link - probably should be in the photos thread but this seems to be the best thread for all things foxy. Not my photo I hasten to add, but it's just won one of the categories in Wildlife Photographer of the Year and I thought is was an interesting observation of foxy behaviour. Taken in Sherwood Pines, Nottinghamshire:
(c) Daniel Valverde Fernandez
(c) Daniel Valverde Fernandez
Len the dog
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I wonder if Daniel was thinking, “Bugger, no safe backstop!”.
Wondered what Photoshop could do. 
Bavarianbrit
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My neighbour who has the hunt lease had a camera set out in some woods where I had broken through a rotted rung on a high seat some 10 years ago, since then it had been rebuilt. He said there were three boar & some young ones showing up on it.
I sat out on this high seat at 7:45 last night and at 10:22 out came a boar that walked into the suhle (mud wallow) grunting happily the temp was a mild +7 degrees, I first heard it arrive with my sound magnifying earmuffs then I saw it with my thermal spotter, it looked in the thermal image screen to be a biggish frischling but at the shot (a .270 Win unmoderated using an S&B 150 grain Hornady SST bullet) at the shot it just dropped no wiggle of the legs - nothing stone dead. The recoil though sent the Pard 007 add on eyepiece back into my nose starting a long bleeding session it turned out to be a 70 kg keiler which shows that thermals can fool you. It took all of our combined strengths to get it up into his tow ball basket. We took it to the game dealer this morning and he paid the going 1.60Euro per kilo so we got 96.0Euros for the 60 kg dressed out/gralloched that it was.
Now I will have to do it all again tonight in case the others are still around, I had better get some sleep in.
I sat out on this high seat at 7:45 last night and at 10:22 out came a boar that walked into the suhle (mud wallow) grunting happily the temp was a mild +7 degrees, I first heard it arrive with my sound magnifying earmuffs then I saw it with my thermal spotter, it looked in the thermal image screen to be a biggish frischling but at the shot (a .270 Win unmoderated using an S&B 150 grain Hornady SST bullet) at the shot it just dropped no wiggle of the legs - nothing stone dead. The recoil though sent the Pard 007 add on eyepiece back into my nose starting a long bleeding session it turned out to be a 70 kg keiler which shows that thermals can fool you. It took all of our combined strengths to get it up into his tow ball basket. We took it to the game dealer this morning and he paid the going 1.60Euro per kilo so we got 96.0Euros for the 60 kg dressed out/gralloched that it was.
Now I will have to do it all again tonight in case the others are still around, I had better get some sleep in.
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Rake Aboot
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Local running track
They built it with a lovely fence round it , and fenced all the rabbits in
The ground is an old coal bing the we used to set alight as kids
The rabbit holes showed up as red hot on the thermal and when you put your hand down them it’s roasting handy on a cold night.
This was a few nights previous
Different places.
I reckon ive done 375 of that place since last spring and got a long way to go yet.
Got the caravan park under control at least.
They built it with a lovely fence round it , and fenced all the rabbits in
The ground is an old coal bing the we used to set alight as kids
The rabbit holes showed up as red hot on the thermal and when you put your hand down them it’s roasting
handy on a cold night.This was a few nights previous
Different places.
I reckon ive done 375 of that place since last spring and got a long way to go yet.
Got the caravan park under control at least.
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