Foxyboy43
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Correct. Though in Scotland I believe you may shoot from the roadside - open to correction from up there…
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Dealing with a suburban fox
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Ha ha! I realised after I posted that someone was bound to say that, so I've just edited it!
Either contact your feo to clarify thier postion or get a trap. Not worth loosing you're license over.
Slippery slope if we're going to start contacting police every time we want to carry out a legal activity.
Definitely do not contact your FEO. They have neither the training nor authority to produce an opinion you may rely on, and you're just flagging yourself up to the police as a slightly dodgy prospect.
Either just shoot it with anything other than an air rifle, or trap it.
Good point. Also, firearms lice sing departments have massive backlogs of real work to do. Having certificate holders constantly contacting them with queries they ought to already know the answer to, or can find for themselves, just clogs the system up more. The less contact with FEOs the better for everyone.
But more seriously, as posted about 3 pages ago... Bait into safe area over a few nights, sand bags behind if needed and 22rf out of the upstairs window. Set up inside, well back so you're not hanging out the window with a rifle. Discretion always better with these things and no one will even know you've fired a shot.
Shot no end out of my bedroom window on the back lawn. Dried dog/cat biscuits scattered on lawn. Illum was a 1000 watts pir flood light. Foxs quite used to it. Eley sub through the head very effective.
Rural cottage so no worries. Virtually silent operation.
In your case .22lr would be best but HMR OK . Use bags of sand as backstop behind bait area. Simple NV perfectly adequate eg Photon with a 940 Torch.
Fox trap also v effective once they are accustomed to it.
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Rural cottage so no worries. Virtually silent operation.
In your case .22lr would be best but HMR OK . Use bags of sand as backstop behind bait area. Simple NV perfectly adequate eg Photon with a 940 Torch.
Fox trap also v effective once they are accustomed to it.
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shakey jake
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Either bait and shoot or cage if you are not happy with snares.
Colin letch makes good traps based at yaxley near peterborough.
Ive snared in cambridge when a fox wouldnt use the trap.
But long term work out why and how the fox is coming and see if that could be changed.
I found squirrels are a good bait, hang the tail at the back so it wobbles in the breeze.
If you are worried about the hmr noise, how will you dispatch?
Decided to try a cage trap, and then I'll take it to farm metaphorically and physically
shakey jake
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Good luck.Decided to try a cage trap, and then I'll take it to farm metaphorically and physically
Cover the base with soil or something helps and little bits of food around the entrance.
Where you place is important too, if they normally walk somewhere that helps
Best comment so far after reading them all.
Trap is only option.
At the end of the day a fox sh##ING on a garden wouldn't tempt me into using a gun of any sort in a area like that
But some of the replies are amusing
I thought my comment might be contentious . The point I was trying to make, which i probably did badly, was, if your neighbor complains it matters not whether you are in the right, you get into a ****ing match that is quite avoidable.
. The point I was trying to make, which i probably did badly, was, if your neighbor complains it matters not whether you are in the right, you get into a ****ing match that is quite avoidable.Similar threads
