Fox shooting distance

[Paddy_SP]

As alluded to a couple of times above, my take on it is that it all depends on your local terrain. It's easy for those of us with 'close' country around us to forget that some people live in places where 300 yard shots are a necessity, not a choice.

My other comment is that it's interesting to see that on what is potentially a contentious subject, we've managed three pages of posts without the whole thing collapsing into a frenzy of maliciousness. Had this been about deer, I'd have given it about two minutes!

 

[Overlay]

Hi Paddy
agree 100%
The foxes I grass are from 50 to near on 250 yds and all calibre dependant, I’m not a lover of elevation and spend my practice time knowing the capabilities of me, the rifle and the range, I keep my eye in on out to 300 and use the best calibre from using the 22 hornet, 204, 222 and 243 for foxing as a rule of thumb distance rules the day
just finished a few days out on the lambing fields with the 222 - tonight the 204 and the hornet come into play as it suits the range and terrain where i’ll be tonight these two fit the bill, getting used to the 204 more now as it’s relatively new to me 150 yd shot with that perfect smack in between the hornet and the duce and a straight no nonsense shot, just the job

 

[Smellydog]

115 paces.
60yds

HMR

 

[Bowderdale]

2 dropped last night in the lambing fields, that’s 6 this week off the same fell farm with some seriously rough terrain of crags and steep fell, first one dropted at 184 yards and second was grassed at 264yards, 22-250 with 50 grain accutip.

 

[Klenchblaize]

Most of my shots at foxes are well below 100 yards but then I don’t “nut them” at 400 yards with my thermal “rig” after midnight!

K

 

[Overlay]

400 yds. !!!!!! i can’t even shoot that far or accurately enough in the daylight, let alone at night whoever can do that must have some special rifle and optics or they meant 400 feet and had a typo - 400 yds is a hell of a way out there,

400 yds on paper is one thing

 

[User00053]

much prefer the Texas heart shot, with 17cf, thermal a must and closer the better

 

[Klenchblaize]

400 yds. !!!!!! i can’t even shoot that far or accurately enough in the daylight, let alone at night whoever can do that must have some special rifle and optics or they meant 400 feet and had a typo - 400 yds is a hell of a way out there,

400 yds on paper is one thing

I forgot to add from a vehicle window or roof!

K

 

[User00053]

And whilst moving adds to the challenge, possible CIA training in the dark art.

 

[Ratel]

400 yds. !!!!!! i can’t even shoot that far or accurately enough in the daylight, let alone at night whoever can do that must have some special rifle and optics or they meant 400 feet and had a typo - 400 yds is a hell of a way out there,

400 yds on paper is one thing

You're lucky, I can't even see that far, and if I could the fox would be hidden by the reticule.

 

[Smellydog]

My last rifle shot fox was 75yds ish.
My last shotgun distance was 7 yds.

 

[Smellydog]

This one is killing chucks.
I hope it comes later within hushpower range.

 

[Foxyboy43]

60-odd yards called out of cover - in full daylight. So tell me again why I bought the Pard 007a, Pard 008p and most recently the Pulsar Axion 2?
Just kidding - love them all!

 

[Richards8248]

My furthest at night was about 280yds....point and shoot with my 204 with Hi 4k scope

 

[Smellydog]

150yds plus for shot #1, lungs. Finisher, neck, around 140yds. Windy. 17 HMR.