Foxing tips
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Ranger22
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No , they are about most nights. Some nights they are just harder to get to. A still night I find the worst, any unnatural noise and you have been rumbled
Polar Lynx
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Worthwhile to find out where foxes spend their day time and where the feeding areas are. Foxes tend to move to feeding areas on same routes. Here, which is not sheep country, foxes move along streams and rivers. Searching for water rats mainly. With right wind and a position a bit high up then there is just a issue of waiting and not moving. Constantly working with the thermal. A short mouse call will make a fox stop for a few seconds..
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Len the dog
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Unlike your Tenterfield.Practice and perfect your hand squeak - it works very well and you will never leave it at home!
Len the dog
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Decide what sort of rifle support you are going to use and practice getting the rifle up & ready, whether it's a tripod with a yolk or clamp, a set of quadsticks or even just a single stick. Get it down to being an easy slick movement, stop, deploy, rifle up, on target. If you aren't practised then you'll end up clattering about, cursing under your breath or dropping something, sometimes Charlie doesn't want to play ball and you may not have much time before he's away through that hedge. Basically, get familiar with your equipment so that it becomes second nature.
Len the dog
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Especially during the mating season, you may drop a vixen and find there’s a preoccupied dog hot on her heels.
Foxyboy43
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Be a bit mindful where you leave them afterwards. Make sure its far away from footpaths if possible, and even then out of sight in a hedge or deep cover.
The farmer wont thank you for complaints from nosey dog walkers etc. and we have to accept folk are not always understanding or comfy with wildlife management.
I try and leave things looking like I have not been there.
The farmer wont thank you for complaints from nosey dog walkers etc. and we have to accept folk are not always understanding or comfy with wildlife management.
I try and leave things looking like I have not been there.
Or later on the 'teenagers' I have on a couple of occasions dropped three in the same spot just through patiently waiting well back.
Phil fox man
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I find it all depends on the layout of your land.on large lambing fields Foxes are more used to quads and pickups as the farmer does his rounds.i just park up overlooking the fields where you are not perceived as a threat and wait.
Polar Lynx
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My fox/boar set up
Also, dog is very handy to bring along. Starting early in dog's life with 'sit still and shut up' training. Dogs feel/sense 'something out there in the dark' much earlier than we do so just looking at the dog may fix the boar, especially. Also good to bring along when searching something shot at. No hurry when dog is with you and perhaps another chance at something ..
Also, dog is very handy to bring along. Starting early in dog's life with 'sit still and shut up' training. Dogs feel/sense 'something out there in the dark' much earlier than we do so just looking at the dog may fix the boar, especially. Also good to bring along when searching something shot at. No hurry when dog is with you and perhaps another chance at something ..
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Yes - and if there is 2 shoot the vixen first - the dog will hang around for sure
Thanks Foxer, I’ll get on that now!
I have a Hikmicro Thunder at the moment. I appreciate it’s actually designed to be a scope, but it makes one hell of a spotter!!!Oh and regardless of whether you intend to shoot foxes at night with a lamp/IR/thermal scope or even in full daylight do buy a thermal spotter - utterly priceless for any type of animal shooting.
Whether you’re using an electronic call, mouth call or hand squeaking, the fox will usually come around to get downwind of the source of the noise and approach it using his nose, try to position yourself accordingly otherwise you’re busted and you’ll not see him.
Wind direction is vital and it’s surprising how a gentle breeze in one direction will swirl around contours and give you away.
Oh, and if you take your friend’s son along on his first foxing foray, remember to tell him beforehand not to lather himself in cologne.
brilliant advice. Maybe his idea was to scent the fox into submission…Thanks Phil, animal/livestock behaviour is something I fear I have overlooked. Spending more time scanning for the fox!
Len the dog
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A dog is a great addition, if only just for the company. My springer very quickly learnt that foxing requires a different more subtle approach than looking for pheasants, and he does see things that I don’t, so definitely worth watching him and picking up on his signs.
Len the dog
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It may work on the vixens out on the lash, but don’t think Charlie was overly impressed.
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