Out last night.

[Smellydog]

Nearly forgot, I found a little wren tucked up for the night.

 

[charlie222]

I got caught in the rain too, no foxes again, I don't think I've seen one since June. Managed six rats with my dad's old hw77 though, once the undergrowth has died back a bit more they'll be easier to get at.

 

[jall55]

Sat out from about 5 watching and listening to fireworks - at 630 a fox comes out of the wood towards me in my best spot
10 mins later it appears at my back and walks down the footpath - under the gate and into my field - happy days i thought - it then works a hedge but is always the wrong side of it
Next thing a walker comes down the path and it spooks - as the fireworks really pick up
I think patience once everything calms down it will be back for tea - and yes it came - Down the path into the field and to the bait - the end

 

[Nickb]

Sat out from about 5 watching and listening to fireworks - at 630 a fox comes out of the wood towards me in my best spot
10 mins later it appears at my back and walks down the footpath - under the gate and into my field - happy days i thought - it then works a hedge but is always the wrong side of it
Next thing a walker comes down the path and it spooks - as the fireworks really pick up
I think patience once everything calms down it will be back for tea - and yes it came - Down the path into the field and to the bait - the end

Loving the videos

 

[Cyres]

Another foray on the rats last night while the blitz in Brital ensured. Managed to get 30 they were getting a bit twitchy towards the end of the session. So that's pushing 80 over 2 nights so should cut the numbers down for a while. It's very good target practice and I hope to be back on the foxs next week weather permitting.
D

 

[wabbit warren]

went out last night i thought the cloud cover would last, bloody fireworks didnt stop all evening then the moon came out
i got one a big old dog. ran straight at the caller from a cover crop easy shot
packed in about 8.30pm so a nice early night.

 

[Smellydog]

#67
Went to look for my big boy tonight and found him, right at the other end of the farm!
A squeal had retreat to the timberline but shortly after a smaller one appeared! The vixen I presume.
No way to approach in the shadows I just went for it.
I was about 200yds away when it got suspicious and we had a stand off.

It moved off towards the timberline but not without circling to get a better diagnosis as to what I was before disappearing.
I hung around but didn't see them again.

So at that I popped to the next farm where I had left a good meal for one last night and low and behold there was one exactly at the bait sight.
A quick positioning in the shade of farm machinery and it was soon over.

Just to add that I was extremely lucky to get a clean kill. The wee 40gn bullet hit jaw first but death was still instant.

 

[Nickb]

Thick fog here

 

[jall55]

#67
Went to look for my big boy tonight and found him, right at the other end of the farm!
A squeal had retreat to the timberline but shortly after a smaller one appeared! The vixen I presume.
No way to approach in the shadows I just went for it.
I was about 200yds away when it got suspicious and we had a stand off.

It moved off towards the timberline but not without circling to get a better diagnosis as to what I was before disappearing.
I hung around but didn't see them again.

So at that I popped to the next farm where I had left a good meal for one last night and low and behold there was one exactly at the bait sight.
A quick positioning in the shade of farm machinery and it was soon over.

Just to add that I was extremely lucky to get a clean kill. The wee 40gn bullet hit jaw first but death was still instant.

Nothing lucky about that SD

I have had steak chips - stilton sauce 5 pints - all for half price ! Now thats lucky !

 

[bumpy22]

What is wrong with these idiots and fireworks. No respect for my night time hunting.
With that and bloody great big white round think shining on me was a very frustrating night
But did manage to get #70
Picked her up in the thermal just under 400 yards away. With a bit of stalking and stopping for fireworks. Managed to get into 160 yards

 

[Cyres]

In that scenario I would have aimed lower more mid chest.
I have several foxs hit on the nose with a 40 vmax. Both were incapacitaed but not dead when they were retrieved.
Thus I tend to aim a fair bit lower.
Also have to be v careful in maize stubble as if you hit a stalk bullets just vaporised.
D

 

[kenbro]

In that scenario I would have aimed lower more mid chest.
I have several foxs hit on the nose with a 40 vmax. Both were incapacitaed but not dead when they were retrieved.
Thus I tend to aim a fair bit lower.
Also have to be v careful in maize stubble as if you hit a stalk bullets just vaporised.
D

Aim looked pretty good to me. Maybe Charlie was putting his head down to start moving as the trigger was pulled?
KB.

 

[Smellydog]

Thanks lads.
It was my bad, the rifle lifted just before the shot.
Glad it worked out.
Stuff happens.

 

[Smellydog]

Nothing lucky about that SD

I have had steak chips - stilton sauce 5 pints - all for half price ! Now thats lucky !

You'll end up bigger than me!!

 

[Foxyboy43]

Been in Scotland for 10 days so foxes had a short reprieve. Out last night at 6 - just as the clouds rolled back and a very bright moon appeared - bugger! To add to my problems I forgot my black gloves and face scarf - not the best idea on such a night - bugger again!
First farm, parked up and walked 10 yards up the lane, quick thermal sweep - solitary ewe in the small field and a moving signature to one side of her - initial thought was very early lamb - then a better look revealed a fox working the ewe like a collie dog!
In my usual way I hadn’t turned the Zulus on so (panic aside) mounting it and pushing all the right buttons in the wrong order ensued… this resulted in a quick recording of a fox without the IR which in hindsight was quite impressive but in (eventually) turning the IR on your hero managed to also turn recording off!

Regardless or despite me - fox down!
Great start to what looked like a frustrating night so leaving the fallen where it lay to collect on my return, I walked another fifty yards up the lane. For reason unknown when I got to the gate of that same field I paused and did another sweep and not 5 yards from the recently demised fox was another unmistakeable signature! This time all the buttons planets aligned and it was a textbook shot and video…

Wow! Two in literally a few moments and in awful conditions…
Onwards and upwards to the top of the lane, backed into the thick trunk of a large tree and turned on my little homemade caller. From there I can see a mile one way and perhaps ten miles the other so plenty of scope for foxes and of course sheep - lots of them…
Way far up the hill I caught sight of a poor signature through the now leafless thick hawthorn hedgerow but lost it again; calling continued with frequent return sweeps to the earlier sighting. Sure enough the source had reappeared and was definitely coming my way. Off with the caller, pause a few moments then on again, quick Pulsar sweep and there it was now two fields away and closing - another fox!
I have shot quite a few from this location, they all seem to follow the same route, eventually moving right to left downhill and giving me a clear shot at pretty much the same location every time. This one did just that and dropped to a nice 170 yard shot - 3 down!!

Well ‘ol foxy was a happy bunny and a quick call to the farmer made him just as happy - the ewe next to his yard was “elderly and feeble” so perhaps the foxes had detected that and sensed easy pickings by running it I can only guess.
Back to the jeep and decision time - home to wine and cheese or one more call at the next door farm?
Soooo, parked in the neighbouring yard, had a quick chat with the farmer who, like me, cannot believe how many I have shot since his plea for help earlier this year and I crossed the road to walk down the short lane where I have had a number of foxes. Second field in I untied the gate, stepped in and before retying it did a quick sweep which detected a definite fox-shaped signature tight to the hedge maybe 130 yards away - quickly followed by a second one perhaps a hundred yards further back! Bloody hell!
This time I did everything right (pause for SD collective gasp) and a gentle lip squeak did the trick - the nearest fox came in a treat offering a simple chest-on shot. The trick of course was getting the double…..
To my delight the second fox didn’t go back through the hedge but took off across the field and quickly stopped for a look back - probably stunned by the series of yells, grunts and yes… the FB demented duck….
Silly fox.

Sooo, five for the night and definitive evidence of pairing-up, though no screams were heard by me (other than my own).
What a great night - The Pulsar Axion2 XQ35, Hornady 50 gns Vmax and the sainted triple deuce make a formidable team, despite my efforts…

 

[kenbro]

Been in Scotland for 10 days so foxes had a short reprieve. Out last night at 6 - just as the clouds rolled back and a very bright moon appeared - bugger! To add to my problems I forgot my black gloves and face scarf - not the best idea on such a night - bugger again!
First farm, parked up and walked 10 yards up the lane, quick thermal sweep - solitary ewe in the small field and a moving signature to one side of her - initial thought was very early lamb - then a better look revealed a fox working the ewe like a collie dog!
In my usual way I hadn’t turned the Zulus on so (panic aside) mounting it and pushing all the right buttons in the wrong order ensued… this resulted in a quick recording of a fox without the IR which in hindsight was quite impressive but in (eventually) turning the IR on your hero managed to also turn recording off!

Regardless or despite me - fox down!
Great start to what looked like a frustrating night so leaving the fallen where it lay to collect on my return, I walked another fifty yards up the lane. For reason unknown when I got to the gate of that same field I paused and did another sweep and not 5 yards from the recently demised fox was another unmistakeable signature! This time all the buttons planets aligned and it was a textbook shot and video…

Wow! Two in literally a few moments and in awful conditions…
Onwards and upwards to the top of the lane, backed into the thick trunk of a large tree and turned on my little homemade caller. From there I can see a mile one way and perhaps ten miles the other so plenty of scope for foxes and of course sheep - lots of them…
Way far up the hill I caught sight of a poor signature through the now leafless thick hawthorn hedgerow but lost it again; calling continued with frequent return sweeps to the earlier sighting. Sure enough the source had reappeared and was definitely coming my way. Off with the caller, pause a few moments then on again, quick Pulsar sweep and there it was now two fields away and closing - another fox!
I have shot quite a few from this location, they all seem to follow the same route, eventually moving right to left downhill and giving me a clear shot at pretty much the same location every time. This one did just that and dropped to a nice 170 yard shot - 3 down!!

Well ‘ol foxy was a happy bunny and a quick call to the farmer made him just as happy - the ewe next to his yard was “elderly and feeble” so perhaps the foxes had detected that and sensed easy pickings by running it I can only guess.
Back to the jeep and decision time - home to wine and cheese or one more call at the next door farm?
Soooo, parked in the neighbouring yard, had a quick chat with the farmer who, like me, cannot believe how many I have shot since his plea for help earlier this year and I crossed the road to walk down the short lane where I have had a number of foxes. Second field in I untied the gate, stepped in and before retying it did a quick sweep which detected a definite fox-shaped signature tight to the hedge maybe 130 yards away - quickly followed by a second one perhaps a hundred yards further back! Bloody hell!
This time I did everything right (pause for SD collective gasp) and a gentle lip squeak did the trick - the nearest fox came in a treat offering a simple chest-on shot. The trick of course was getting the double…..
To my delight the second fox didn’t go back through the hedge but took off across the field and quickly stopped for a look back - probably stunned by the series of yells, grunts and yes… the FB demented duck….
Silly fox.

Sooo, five for the night and definitive evidence of pairing-up, though no screams were heard by me (other than my own).
What a great night - The Pulsar Axion2 XQ35, Hornady 50 gns Vmax and the sainted triple deuce make a formidable team, despite my efforts…

Nice job Foxyb;
Musta been the respite you gave them and they thought you weren’t coming back!
KB.
Ps. Wondered where you bin.

 

[Smellydog]

Been in Scotland for 10 days so foxes had a short reprieve. Out last night at 6 - just as the clouds rolled back and a very bright moon appeared - bugger! To add to my problems I forgot my black gloves and face scarf - not the best idea on such a night - bugger again!
First farm, parked up and walked 10 yards up the lane, quick thermal sweep - solitary ewe in the small field and a moving signature to one side of her - initial thought was very early lamb - then a better look revealed a fox working the ewe like a collie dog!
In my usual way I hadn’t turned the Zulus on so (panic aside) mounting it and pushing all the right buttons in the wrong order ensued… this resulted in a quick recording of a fox without the IR which in hindsight was quite impressive but in (eventually) turning the IR on your hero managed to also turn recording off!

Regardless or despite me - fox down!
Great start to what looked like a frustrating night so leaving the fallen where it lay to collect on my return, I walked another fifty yards up the lane. For reason unknown when I got to the gate of that same field I paused and did another sweep and not 5 yards from the recently demised fox was another unmistakeable signature! This time all the buttons planets aligned and it was a textbook shot and video…

Wow! Two in literally a few moments and in awful conditions…
Onwards and upwards to the top of the lane, backed into the thick trunk of a large tree and turned on my little homemade caller. From there I can see a mile one way and perhaps ten miles the other so plenty of scope for foxes and of course sheep - lots of them…
Way far up the hill I caught sight of a poor signature through the now leafless thick hawthorn hedgerow but lost it again; calling continued with frequent return sweeps to the earlier sighting. Sure enough the source had reappeared and was definitely coming my way. Off with the caller, pause a few moments then on again, quick Pulsar sweep and there it was now two fields away and closing - another fox!
I have shot quite a few from this location, they all seem to follow the same route, eventually moving right to left downhill and giving me a clear shot at pretty much the same location every time. This one did just that and dropped to a nice 170 yard shot - 3 down!!

Well ‘ol foxy was a happy bunny and a quick call to the farmer made him just as happy - the ewe next to his yard was “elderly and feeble” so perhaps the foxes had detected that and sensed easy pickings by running it I can only guess.
Back to the jeep and decision time - home to wine and cheese or one more call at the next door farm?
Soooo, parked in the neighbouring yard, had a quick chat with the farmer who, like me, cannot believe how many I have shot since his plea for help earlier this year and I crossed the road to walk down the short lane where I have had a number of foxes. Second field in I untied the gate, stepped in and before retying it did a quick sweep which detected a definite fox-shaped signature tight to the hedge maybe 130 yards away - quickly followed by a second one perhaps a hundred yards further back! Bloody hell!
This time I did everything right (pause for SD collective gasp) and a gentle lip squeak did the trick - the nearest fox came in a treat offering a simple chest-on shot. The trick of course was getting the double…..
To my delight the second fox didn’t go back through the hedge but took off across the field and quickly stopped for a look back - probably stunned by the series of yells, grunts and yes… the FB demented duck….
Silly fox.

Sooo, five for the night and definitive evidence of pairing-up, though no screams were heard by me (other than my own).
What a great night - The Pulsar Axion2 XQ35, Hornady 50 gns Vmax and the sainted triple deuce make a formidable team, despite my efforts…

Bruddy ell, your on fire!!
The demented duck struck again!!

 

[Nickb]

Been in Scotland for 10 days so foxes had a short reprieve. Out last night at 6 - just as the clouds rolled back and a very bright moon appeared - bugger! To add to my problems I forgot my black gloves and face scarf - not the best idea on such a night - bugger again!
First farm, parked up and walked 10 yards up the lane, quick thermal sweep - solitary ewe in the small field and a moving signature to one side of her - initial thought was very early lamb - then a better look revealed a fox working the ewe like a collie dog!
In my usual way I hadn’t turned the Zulus on so (panic aside) mounting it and pushing all the right buttons in the wrong order ensued… this resulted in a quick recording of a fox without the IR which in hindsight was quite impressive but in (eventually) turning the IR on your hero managed to also turn recording off!

Regardless or despite me - fox down!
Great start to what looked like a frustrating night so leaving the fallen where it lay to collect on my return, I walked another fifty yards up the lane. For reason unknown when I got to the gate of that same field I paused and did another sweep and not 5 yards from the recently demised fox was another unmistakeable signature! This time all the buttons planets aligned and it was a textbook shot and video…

Wow! Two in literally a few moments and in awful conditions…
Onwards and upwards to the top of the lane, backed into the thick trunk of a large tree and turned on my little homemade caller. From there I can see a mile one way and perhaps ten miles the other so plenty of scope for foxes and of course sheep - lots of them…
Way far up the hill I caught sight of a poor signature through the now leafless thick hawthorn hedgerow but lost it again; calling continued with frequent return sweeps to the earlier sighting. Sure enough the source had reappeared and was definitely coming my way. Off with the caller, pause a few moments then on again, quick Pulsar sweep and there it was now two fields away and closing - another fox!
I have shot quite a few from this location, they all seem to follow the same route, eventually moving right to left downhill and giving me a clear shot at pretty much the same location every time. This one did just that and dropped to a nice 170 yard shot - 3 down!!

Well ‘ol foxy was a happy bunny and a quick call to the farmer made him just as happy - the ewe next to his yard was “elderly and feeble” so perhaps the foxes had detected that and sensed easy pickings by running it I can only guess.
Back to the jeep and decision time - home to wine and cheese or one more call at the next door farm?
Soooo, parked in the neighbouring yard, had a quick chat with the farmer who, like me, cannot believe how many I have shot since his plea for help earlier this year and I crossed the road to walk down the short lane where I have had a number of foxes. Second field in I untied the gate, stepped in and before retying it did a quick sweep which detected a definite fox-shaped signature tight to the hedge maybe 130 yards away - quickly followed by a second one perhaps a hundred yards further back! Bloody hell!
This time I did everything right (pause for SD collective gasp) and a gentle lip squeak did the trick - the nearest fox came in a treat offering a simple chest-on shot. The trick of course was getting the double…..
To my delight the second fox didn’t go back through the hedge but took off across the field and quickly stopped for a look back - probably stunned by the series of yells, grunts and yes… the FB demented duck….
Silly fox.

Sooo, five for the night and definitive evidence of pairing-up, though no screams were heard by me (other than my own).
What a great night - The Pulsar Axion2 XQ35, Hornady 50 gns Vmax and the sainted triple deuce make a formidable team, despite my efforts…

Brilliant

Great shooting .

 

[Foxyboy43]

Nice job Foxyb;
Musta been the respite you gave them and they thought you weren’t coming back!
KB.
Ps. Wondered where you bin.

Yep thanx - funny old world. Worst possible night for it but turned out a pretty good result.
Love the Pulsar Thermal…

 

[Foxyboy43]

Bruddy ell, your on fire!!
The demented duck struck again!!

Thanx Smelly.
Pretty pleased with my shooting last night off B&Q’s finest - after a bit of a mixed result in Scotland - for some reason some of my shots were low - both off bipod and sticks (professional manufacture - never again, B&Q forever) - maybe I should quack at deer too…..
Fortunately all were killing shots which was a relief but annoying as not quite where I aimed for….
Anyhoo I had a great week - two reds (one a calf at 395 and ten roe from 70 to 240), spent time with old pals and best of all met two real gentlemen Jimmy and Dave who I know I will be out with again - asap!