Favourite foxing calibre

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.204 Ruger Savage LRPV , 32gr vmax foxes drop on the spot, excellent accurate round.
.220 swift , 50gr vmax ... enough said lol.
.243 58 gr vmax ... as above!!
 
minikeeper said:
As a side note, I often see that people like their particular bullet because they have never had a Fox move a step after being hit? Is this due to shooting a reletivly low number of foxes? I have had well hit foxes run or alive after being hit with .17hmr, .22lr, .22 hornet, .222, .223, .22/250, .243, 6.5 creed, 6.5x284, 7x57, .308, .300 win mag. And with bullets from amax, vmax, seirra, Berger, ect. You get my point. I have have had the odd runner with literally every combination I have tried, probably only 1-2% of foxes that are hit well but this still accounts to several every year.
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My previous shooting was with either .22 rimfire or .270Win (or the 12 bore if Charlie was daft enough to wander close enough whilst I was out). Occasionally had a fox that needed a 'follow up' with the rimmy.
Bought the .204 last year and took over 80 foxes with it by Xmas. Not one of them went anywhere but down. Oddly, the last one I took was a frontal shot, straight in the bib (a usual recipe for DRT) and it's the only fox I've had with the .204 that needed a bit of 'finishing'. The bullet had deflected/disintegrated and left an exit wound I could have fitted the flat of my (rather large) hand into at the back of the neck/shoulders. Even after scaling a fence and walking the 200-ish yards to the fox I found it was it was still twitching ... dead or nerves ? I don't know, but I soon put an end to it. Either way it was going nowhere.
Never had one walk away from a 110gr ballistic tipped .270 either funnily enough, but that's just messy ;)
 
minikeeper said:
As a side note, I often see that people like their particular bullet because they have never had a Fox move a step after being hit? Is this due to shooting a reletivly low number of foxes? I have had well hit foxes run or alive after being hit with .17hmr, .22lr, .22 hornet, .222, .223, .22/250, .243, 6.5 creed, 6.5x284, 7x57, .308, .300 win mag. And with bullets from amax, vmax, seirra, Berger, ect. You get my point. I have have had the odd runner with literally every combination I have tried, probably only 1-2% of foxes that are hit well but this still accounts to several every year.
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What do you call well hit?

I don't shoot a huge amount of foxes 20-25 a year maybe get 1 or 2 that don't drop on the shot tops but that is down to me getting the shot wrong or as recently the bullet blew up on the stubble.

I'm quite happy enough to accept I don't shoot enough foxes to see runners from good shot placement, can't see any fox running from a well placed shot and suitable varmint bullet from 6.5-284 or 300 win mag but I don't disbelieve you!
 
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The only other runners I've had apart from the 35 grain Vmax incident (which blew up on impact), were due to miss placed shots. And that was down to me trying to be a smart Alec.
All others have dropped on the spot, all boiler room shots.
 
25 Sharps said:
What do you call well hit?

I don't shoot a huge amount of foxes 20-25 a year maybe get 1 or 2 that don't drop on the shot tops but that is down to me getting the shot wrong or as recently the bullet blew up on the stubble.

I'm quite happy enough to accept I don't shoot enough foxes to see runners from good shot placement, can't see any fox running from a well placed shot and suitable varmint bullet from 6.5-284 or 300 win mag but I don't disbelieve you!
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You will get runners with anything, it my be a tiny percentage but there isn’t a caliber/bullet combination that will drop every fox on the spot 100% of the time. Maybe 99.5% of the time but you will still get an occasional one that runs 10m before dieing.
 
What ever I have available from 22/250 to 6.5x55 308,270 this year I’ve had mates shoot the foxs with me they used 223 243 22/250 out to sensible ranges using thermal and night vis and the difference between calibres was not noticeable all resulting in very dead vulpes which is good for my game birds
 
A fox can move a lot during the time between the bullet leaving the muzzle and reaching it's target. I shot at one that stopped while carrying a rabbit and being followed by a cub. She turned before the bullet got to her and it clipped her backside, sucking all her innards out. Not a pretty sight, her flailing about too much to be able to have a proper second shot. On another occasion, I shot at one of a bunch of cubs and another walked in front of it after I fired, so had both of them.
 
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