Out last night.
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captain jon
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Just got in . What a lovely evening managed a roe in the last of the light then went home for a brew then an evening foxing .
My old mate from up north is down for a few days shooting and tonight it just seemed to come together beautifully.
I set the 223 with the pard 008 on the bog tripod and started calling mr fox and within 20 minutes the first fox came out of the woods and my friend dropped him at 70 yards we then moved to another permission and spotted another fox in the edge of the wood and it was heading our way and we stopped it with a squeak at 150 yards and my dropped it on spot . We were thinking of going home when another fox turned up about 300 yards away and we squeaked him in to about 150 and that was number three. Sometimes it all just comes together beautifully.
My old mate from up north is down for a few days shooting and tonight it just seemed to come together beautifully.
I set the 223 with the pard 008 on the bog tripod and started calling mr fox and within 20 minutes the first fox came out of the woods and my friend dropped him at 70 yards we then moved to another permission and spotted another fox in the edge of the wood and it was heading our way and we stopped it with a squeak at 150 yards and my dropped it on spot . We were thinking of going home when another fox turned up about 300 yards away and we squeaked him in to about 150 and that was number three. Sometimes it all just comes together beautifully.
Smellydog
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#81
I noticed the other day that all the bait had gone on a favourite camera site of mine after I had recently lifted the camera so I re-established the camera and bait.
This morning before light I visit said site with some chicken scraps and to have look about.
So after a look around I eventually checked a field at the back of the farm and in the thermal a fox was leaving!
As I took a few steps to get a better position thinking it's only a big 100 yards and scanned again it had completely disappeared!
Huh! So I squealed and waited, nothing!
Next I went into pursuit but gave up for fear of winding it should it return like they often do.
Glad I did!
Having the call of nature whilst out early is a pain in the arse, literally but, no not butt, but, it can often reap results!
Those few moments time out have often given rise to another opportunity and sure enough once I was composed again a quick scan showed the fox in the hedge roughly where I had last seen it. This time I got to an electric pole and squealed my head off, got the rifle ready and scanned.
Charlie came in at a good lick, turned to get down wind, I grunted, it stopped and the 17hmr switched off instantly at a near 50 yards.
A friend of mine, long gone, use to regularly say " if the dog hadn't stopped for a **** it'd caught the rabbit"!
Well not this time Ken, the Smelly dog did stop for a crap and got his fox!
All ammunition is lead based, the environment is safe, the land is covered in hares, skylarks, pipets, duck of all sorts and french partridge.
No need for any experts thanks.
I noticed the other day that all the bait had gone on a favourite camera site of mine after I had recently lifted the camera so I re-established the camera and bait.
This morning before light I visit said site with some chicken scraps and to have look about.
So after a look around I eventually checked a field at the back of the farm and in the thermal a fox was leaving!
As I took a few steps to get a better position thinking it's only a big 100 yards and scanned again it had completely disappeared!
Huh! So I squealed and waited, nothing!
Next I went into pursuit but gave up for fear of winding it should it return like they often do.
Glad I did!
Having the call of nature whilst out early is a pain in the arse, literally but, no not butt, but, it can often reap results!
Those few moments time out have often given rise to another opportunity and sure enough once I was composed again a quick scan showed the fox in the hedge roughly where I had last seen it. This time I got to an electric pole and squealed my head off, got the rifle ready and scanned.
Charlie came in at a good lick, turned to get down wind, I grunted, it stopped and the 17hmr switched off instantly at a near 50 yards.
A friend of mine, long gone, use to regularly say " if the dog hadn't stopped for a **** it'd caught the rabbit"!
Well not this time Ken, the Smelly dog did stop for a crap and got his fox!
All ammunition is lead based, the environment is safe, the land is covered in hares, skylarks, pipets, duck of all sorts and french partridge.
No need for any experts thanks.
Smelly, Good job you were not deploying bib & brace!
Smellydog
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Aye but I wish I had left the house with just my PJ's on!Smelly, Good job you were not deploying bib & brace!
Can be awkward at times.
Phil fox man
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I once dropped a log in the hood of my foxing onesy, luckily it was a firm one and just rolled it out and carried on.
Smellydog
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That's an image I can't get rid of nowI once dropped a log in the hood of my foxing onesy, luckily it was a firm one and just rolled it out and carried on.
Nickb
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#60
Strange one tonight. Spotted a heat source laid up in a hedge some 500 yds away , thinking it was a fox I put on a stalk on it. Couldn't decide if it was a hare or fox until I checked it out with the Nv, which confirmed it was
It was tucked up that tight in the hedge all I could see was the black tops of its ears ..so aiming just below squeezed of the shot , checked through the thermal confirmed it laid motionless.
Now the interesting part. When I got up to it and only about 2 yards away I saw it's head move , then it jumped up cackling and lunged at me , I nearly shat myself. Had to jump back and promptly shot it again.
On inspection the bullet had created a flesh wound across the atlas joint, enough to knock it out until I got close and it attacked.
I had visions of a lively fox being latched on to my leg , now that would have been interesting
Decent dog fox
Strange one tonight. Spotted a heat source laid up in a hedge some 500 yds away , thinking it was a fox I put on a stalk on it. Couldn't decide if it was a hare or fox until I checked it out with the Nv, which confirmed it was
It was tucked up that tight in the hedge all I could see was the black tops of its ears ..so aiming just below squeezed of the shot , checked through the thermal confirmed it laid motionless.
Now the interesting part. When I got up to it and only about 2 yards away I saw it's head move , then it jumped up cackling and lunged at me , I nearly shat myself. Had to jump back and promptly shot it again.
On inspection the bullet had created a flesh wound across the atlas joint, enough to knock it out until I got close and it attacked.
I had visions of a lively fox being latched on to my leg , now that would have been interesting
Decent dog fox
No foxes this late afternoon, howeverCan be awkward at times.
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Foxyboy43
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Soooo. Lady FB on the redeye to Glasgow this a.m. courtesy of FB Taxis and pick up tonite at 20:30 so wot’s a boy to do?
Welllll, go foxing for the witching hours between 17:00 and 19:30 (latest or airport pick up will be late - can you smell the burning flesh children? Foxyboy can…). Anyhoo like the rat up the proverbial spout your hero was on the lane at 17:15 hoping for number 27 since March on this particular hillside before the airport run.
Long story short, saw the by now usual pair and a singleton - none of which gave a shot opportunity but I have now seen where they are coming out of at 18:00 so weather permitting next time I shall be waiting….
Back down to Jimny with 15 mins to spare so nipped across the road and started the pocket-rocket calling across a field of ewes - nada. Moved to next gate and repeated - nada2.
Sooo conscious of time rushing past retreated Jimny-wards but couldn’t resist the opportunity of one final, final burst on the wee machine….
Bugger me but a fox was racing in through the ewes. By the time I got on to it it had found something much more interesting in the grass and only after a few calls and ahem, an absence of a bullet in the chamber, the rather well-endowed fella (think 2 grapefruits) was mine.
Watching it live and reviewing later took me back to many years ago when us lads burst out of the Saturday matinees, blinking in the Summer sun - either fencing furiously (The Four Musketeers) or competing for best “Argghhh, you got me” fall after John Wayne had shot four of us with only one bullet from his Colt 45. Golden days indeed.
In 60 years of hindsight I think this fella would have made it on to the winners’ podium. Bless.
Welllll, go foxing for the witching hours between 17:00 and 19:30 (latest or airport pick up will be late - can you smell the burning flesh children? Foxyboy can…). Anyhoo like the rat up the proverbial spout your hero was on the lane at 17:15 hoping for number 27 since March on this particular hillside before the airport run.
Long story short, saw the by now usual pair and a singleton - none of which gave a shot opportunity but I have now seen where they are coming out of at 18:00 so weather permitting next time I shall be waiting….
Back down to Jimny with 15 mins to spare so nipped across the road and started the pocket-rocket calling across a field of ewes - nada. Moved to next gate and repeated - nada2.
Sooo conscious of time rushing past retreated Jimny-wards but couldn’t resist the opportunity of one final, final burst on the wee machine….
Bugger me but a fox was racing in through the ewes. By the time I got on to it it had found something much more interesting in the grass and only after a few calls and ahem, an absence of a bullet in the chamber, the rather well-endowed fella (think 2 grapefruits) was mine.
Watching it live and reviewing later took me back to many years ago when us lads burst out of the Saturday matinees, blinking in the Summer sun - either fencing furiously (The Four Musketeers) or competing for best “Argghhh, you got me” fall after John Wayne had shot four of us with only one bullet from his Colt 45. Golden days indeed.
In 60 years of hindsight I think this fella would have made it on to the winners’ podium. Bless.
Smellydog
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PS
One of the three currently doing my head in!
Think the duck is busted with that one mate
Smellydog
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Soooo. Lady FB on the redeye to Glasgow this a.m. courtesy of FB Taxis and pick up tonite at 20:30 so wot’s a boy to do?
Welllll, go foxing for the witching hours between 17:00 and 19:30 (latest or airport pick up will be late - can you smell the burning flesh children? Foxyboy can…). Anyhoo like the rat up the proverbial spout your hero was on the lane at 17:15 hoping for number 27 since March on this particular hillside before the airport run.
Long story short, saw the by now usual pair and a singleton - none of which gave a shot opportunity but I have now seen where they are coming out of at 18:00 so weather permitting next time I shall be waiting….
Back down to Jimny with 15 mins to spare so nipped across the road and started the pocket-rocket calling across a field of ewes - nada. Moved to next gate and repeated - nada2.
Sooo conscious of time rushing past retreated Jimny-wards but couldn’t resist the opportunity of one final, final burst on the wee machine….
Bugger me but a fox was racing in through the ewes. By the time I got on to it it had found something much more interesting in the grass and only after a few calls and ahem, an absence of a bullet in the chamber, the rather well-endowed fella (think 2 grapefruits) was mine.
Watching it live and reviewing later took me back to many years ago when us lads burst out of the Saturday matinees, blinking in the Summer sun - either fencing furiously (The Four Musketeers) or competing for best “Argghhh, you got me” fall after John Wayne had shot four of us with only one bullet from his Colt 45. Golden days indeed.
In 60 years of hindsight I think this fella would have made it on to the winners’ podium. Bless.
Blimey FB the connection between your brain and trigger finger is good!
Musta hurt passing the log in the background.
Len the dog
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Finally out for the first time in two months, parked up and headed off to the start point of my usual beat to wait for proper dark, only it didn’t arrive. Big full moon thankfully hidden by clouds to start with but was climbing quickly.
Just as I was about to set off the first customer arrived but was obscured and I was out in the open, he spotted me and I thought that was it but he just moved further along the line of trees and in the tail grass. I rushed it and a complete miss.
Headed off towards my usual productive stand and came across another on the other side of the boundary but fortunately I have permission there too, the shot was obscured by branches in the IR and again busted as I tried to manoeuvre, I also think it was the same fox so he wasn’t hanging around.
Move on to my stand and deploy the, up to now untested, Foxyboy special must have caller, a few seconds of Fox Mating and nothing, until I turn to my left and there’s a fox sat about 40yds away watching me. The sticks were pointing the wrong way and she busted me, off to the trees. However, she crossed the boundary and came out at the top of a bank opposite, a few mouth squeaks to get her clear of more overhanging branches and down from the skyline and she was side on at about 100yds.
A short while later I tried the 17 minute long squeak that @pazmino kindly supplied and within seconds another one was out of the wood off to my side. He came trotting in to about 50yds and saw me, but instead of running he sat on his haunches looking straight at me, fortunately the sticks were in the general direction and number two dropped.
I packed in shortly after but as I was setting off after hedging these two, I was sure I could hear what seemed very much to me to be another caller playing a squeaking call from across the other side of the boundary, but on a farm that I do not have permission to.
But anyway, big shout to FB for putting us onto the little Y-501, worked a treat.
Just as I was about to set off the first customer arrived but was obscured and I was out in the open, he spotted me and I thought that was it but he just moved further along the line of trees and in the tail grass. I rushed it and a complete miss.
Headed off towards my usual productive stand and came across another on the other side of the boundary but fortunately I have permission there too, the shot was obscured by branches in the IR and again busted as I tried to manoeuvre, I also think it was the same fox so he wasn’t hanging around.
Move on to my stand and deploy the, up to now untested, Foxyboy special must have caller, a few seconds of Fox Mating and nothing, until I turn to my left and there’s a fox sat about 40yds away watching me. The sticks were pointing the wrong way and she busted me, off to the trees. However, she crossed the boundary and came out at the top of a bank opposite, a few mouth squeaks to get her clear of more overhanging branches and down from the skyline and she was side on at about 100yds.
A short while later I tried the 17 minute long squeak that @pazmino kindly supplied and within seconds another one was out of the wood off to my side. He came trotting in to about 50yds and saw me, but instead of running he sat on his haunches looking straight at me, fortunately the sticks were in the general direction and number two dropped.
I packed in shortly after but as I was setting off after hedging these two, I was sure I could hear what seemed very much to me to be another caller playing a squeaking call from across the other side of the boundary, but on a farm that I do not have permission to.
But anyway, big shout to FB for putting us onto the little Y-501, worked a treat.
Foxyboy43
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Excellent result LtD and thanks for the shout - delighted it works for you.Finally out for the first time in two months, parked up and headed off to the start point of my usual beat to wait for proper dark, only it didn’t arrive. Big full moon thankfully hidden by clouds to start with but was climbing quickly.
Just as I was about to set off the first customer arrived but was obscured and I was out in the open, he spotted me and I thought that was it but he just moved further along the line of trees and in the tail grass. I rushed it and a complete miss.
Headed off towards my usual productive stand and came across another on the other side of the boundary but fortunately I have permission there too, the shot was obscured by branches in the IR and again busted as I tried to manoeuvre, I also think it was the same fox so he wasn’t hanging around.
Move on to my stand and deploy the, up to now untested, Foxyboy special must have caller, a few seconds of Fox Mating and nothing, until I turn to my left and there’s a fox sat about 40yds away watching me. The sticks were pointing the wrong way and she busted me, off to the trees. However, she crossed the boundary and came out at the top of a bank opposite, a few mouth squeaks to get her clear of more overhanging branches and down from the skyline and she was side on at about 100yds.
A short while later I tried the 17 minute long squeak that @pazmino kindly supplied and within seconds another one was out of the wood off to my side. He came trotting in to about 50yds and saw me, but instead of running he sat on his haunches looking straight at me, fortunately the sticks were in the general direction and number two dropped.
I packed in shortly after but as I was setting off after hedging these two, I was sure I could hear what seemed very much to me to be another caller playing a squeaking call from across the other side of the boundary, but on a farm that I do not have permission to.
But anyway, big shout to FB for putting us onto the little Y-501, worked a treat.
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I now have three of the little callers strategically placed in the Jimny or my very elderly Barbour shooting vest so I am never without one (thus far…). Apart from the 17 mins call you have I too now only have ten calls recorded - last night the hare screech called in two but only one shot was possible - a big dog at about 80 yards.
Funny thing is despite a lot of use all three are still showing full charge!
Foxyboy43
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This time for sure Smelly - we old pistol shooters (sorry) need to be fast.
Or maybe it just went off….
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My unit has a pair of decent looking batteries in, as you say they have a good service life tween charges.Excellent result LtD and thanks for the shout - delighted it works for you.
I now have three of the little callers strategically placed in the Jimny or my very elderly Barbour shooting vest so I am never without one (thus far…). Apart from the 17 mins call you have I too now only have ten calls recorded - last night the hare screech called in two but only one shot was possible - a big dog at about 80 yards.
Funny thing is despite a lot of use all three are still showing full charge!
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