Great advice!! Thank you
Foxing tips
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Brilliant, thank you. I imagine looking behind is something often missed by newbies like me
I’ve seen reference to this in another thread - sadly my PJs are a pair of boxer shorts and I suspect I’d have my certificates torn to shreds if I was spotted walking through the sheep, tooled up and in my undercrackers!!!!
Thanks for sharing this knowledge! Im
Going out today to have a walk through my main permission.
I was given some great advice further up, about gates and seeing how they open and the noise they make etc!
I appreciate every fox is different, but do you find you have better success with a particular bait?
Squirrels is the best i have found but not really - whatever is available - i use dog biscuits too - The key is to keep baiting - dont miss a day - even if the b ait has not gone from the day before - put a bit of fresh out
How do you currently do things ?
Phil fox man
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don't worry about different baits on lambing fields it's all one bait spot, cleansing,tails,ball bags and such.
I would LOVE a dog to take along.
After having dogs all my life, bar the last 12 months ish, I’m definitely starting to look around at the best bread etc
Thank you. Is a springer the dog you’d suggest then?
Phil fox man
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one really important tip,I don't know what set up your using but be very careful using a thermal scope around lamb's as you could make yourself very unpopular!
I used thermal to spot then an archer and night force scope, good out to 350 if needed.
phil
I used thermal to spot then an archer and night force scope, good out to 350 if needed.
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Mr Tree
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Not wanting anyone to take this advice, it is purely what I do, & only for foxes, when I leave †he house I put a bullet up the spout & make sure the safety is on.
Certainly shot a lot of foxes in my pyjamas! In summer I'm in the nude,
Len the dog
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I wouldn’t suggest any particular breed, it’s just that I have a springer at the moment. But given a springer’s boundless enthusiasm you could be forgiven for thinking that they are not suitable, on the contrary, they are highly intelligent dogs and mine has adapted to the different shooting style that nighttime foxing brings. Back to daytime and he’s straight back to default springer mode, its like he’s got a switch on the back of his head.
Great, thanks!
At the moment I’m heavily reliant on intel I can gather from land owners and farmers, in relation to where they have seen foxes and when.
I have been doing the walks around my permissions to find signs but this thread has shown me just how much I’m missing and not even considering whilst I’m walking around!
The first piece of advice I was given was “Shut up. Be silent. Scan. Scan. Scan. Confirm. Shoot” so that’s generally what I’ve been doing, but it’s made me wary about walking about too much!
I haven’t tried bate or calls yet, so that’s something I’ll be looking into.
Although that’s not strictly true… I have a permission where hens were being taken, so I lay up where I believed the fox was coming in - so I guess that’s using bate. I’ve also taken a rabbit at the start of the night, before dark and intentionally left it in place, between me and when I had been told foxes had been running off to
Really interesting, thank you!
As you say, I’d have expected a springer to be 100mph day or night!!
Foxes are creatures of habit. Shoot one in a particular location and there’s a good chance you shall get another one at the same place within a matter of weeks.
Put out bait regularly (particularly during the winter months) where you have previously seen foxes.
Have a good approach into your bait point, allowing for the prevailing wind.
Visit your bait point regularly to see how often it is being ‘used’ (or set up a trail camera).
Put out bait regularly (particularly during the winter months) where you have previously seen foxes.
Have a good approach into your bait point, allowing for the prevailing wind.
Visit your bait point regularly to see how often it is being ‘used’ (or set up a trail camera).
Nickb
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Overthinking things too much , I've been shooting foxes for nearly 40 years and always washed my clothes and put deodorant on in the morning, makes no difference whatsoever.
If the fox finds a rabbit, or big piece of bait, it will pick it up and run.
I used 'meaty chunk' dog food like Baker's, scattered about with a catapult through a gap in a hedge, then Charlie will hunt around for each bit and sooner or later present you with a broadside shot from where you are waiting in the next field.
Like has been said:- Keep baiting! A handful every evening is enough. Choose several places and you can be out every night, depending on wind direction.
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Dont be shooting anything else would be my suggestion - if you are foxing you are foxing - disturbing the area shooting before can alter their pattern of movement that you will have built up by baiting days previous
Do you have a spotter as well as a scope or scan with a scope - a bit of a no no - although some will disagree perhaps
Pellet Pinger
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Just one of those little things to try and get an edge that ive always done, having taken people out that smell like a tarts armpit on more than one occasion and predicting almost exactly where the fox will be alerted with the wind behind us i’ll disagree.
If you are shooting them off a bonnet 200 plus yards away then maybe but the closer ones when on foot and ones that come in behind you, i believe not smelling like a Persil factory gives you less chance of being detected.
The same for woodland stalking.
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Obviously don’t shave for 24hrs prior to going out, avoid freshly washed clothing.
You don’t want to be smelling like a pox doctors clerk.
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