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Len the dog said:
Just arrived home from a new 250 acre permission that I only picked up on Monday. I had a walk around it on Wednesday to get the lay of the land and found a number of positions with great potential. Tonight I chose a nice spot underneath a spreading hawthorn in the sheep pasture, top of a sloping field with a 180deg field of view over a wooded railway embankment and a small wooded beck, max distance 175 yds, nearest fence 115yds. I took a little folding camping chair and yesterday I made a set of deluxe mini quads, to say it was a comfortable setup would be something of an understatement.

the breeze was very gentle but straight into my face so I set the caller about 30yds in from the fence and scattered a slack handful of dog kibble around about.

I had just settled into my chair and gave a couple of fox mating calls on the caller then had a scan around with the thermal. Sat about 50yds from the caller and 100yds from me there was already a fox watching in the direction of the caller, broadside on and not moving the vixen dropped on the spot at 17:50, not even dark enough to need the IR.
About 30 minutes later and the second vixen came from the opposite direction towards the caller, I switched it off and she turned her attention to scratting around in the grass until eventually she stopped for a second, again broadside on. She too was about 100yds away.
Nothing then for the next hour but had to call it early as it had started tipping it down, the Vulpine NV was still a perfect picture but the thermal was by now useless.
Picked up the two foxes and both had identical exit holes the size of an orange just behind the front leg, very pleased with the perfect shot placement but TBH, the new quads were brilliant. View attachment 334434
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What chambering and bullet please?
Cheers, Ken.
 
My fox is being a......pain. no regular time for its visitations and usually stupid o'clock.
I'm hoping the cooler weather makes it keen.
I'm still feeding the little......thing.
It did give me the pleasure of distant glimpses on Friday night as I sat there in my car like a Muppet!
 
blueeyes said:
I have been after this fox for a while now , the bit of ground I shoot here has only one vantage point that gives a good area and safe shot and this fox knows it lol, anyway started baiting last week but weather horrendous but got a chance for last night and wind in my face so jumped down in day time and topped up all set . Set off app 6pm on the way seen the odd firework but thought surely Friday and Saturday would have been the days , got to parking spot got the chair,rifle and caller allout and over the gate as quiet as possible as it was dark and could be on the bait or near by , got half way down the park and all hell broke loose , bloody rockets bursting everywhere and loud bangs and bursts and I was lit up like a belisha beacon lol turns out the local golf club where having a display just my bloody luck. But as I was here I thought may as well set up and see how it goes, put the caller out to my right about 70yds no intention of using it, as this would be a waiting game, got sat down rifle loaded and on the sticks had a quick scan and noticed the far away sheep in a huddle so scan about and to my amazement there is the fox mooching about the reed bed. Watched it for a good bit and it was taking no notice whats so ever of the racket and rockets that was going on around it and just continued mooching , after about 30mins I had decided it was not coming to the bait so gave a call with mouse it lifted its head had a a look then back to what it was doing , tried the rat again head up then back to business, then it just slowly went away towards the SSSI and gone . So after sitting about 45 min thinking is it going to make its way to the bait point I gave a couple of Dog fox mating calls on the Foxpro Fusion and after about 20min I see a heat source coming through the whins to my left, I moved the sticks slowly round and it had came up behind the mound and looked like it was heading to its favourite field and ignoring the bait , so I had a quick look with the thermal to get my bearing rifle up safety off Drone Pro on and just put IR on and as usual there it was looking straight at me then started to turn to make its usual escape back behind the mound and I released the .223 55gn BK sleeping pill and got it just behind the shoulder, and heard the resounding thump and it disappeared. well I sat for another hour case anything else showed but with the din that was going on I wasnt surprised, so went to claim my prize a large old dog fox that has probably seen it all before and knew when it heard the caller where I would be sitting , I enjoyed this cat and mouse with this fox prefer these to the ones that just run in and stand there, but thats him gone so will wait and see who takes his place goodbye old friendView attachment 335911
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Brilliant write up mate.

You're not wrong about the difficult ones being most satisfying. Good man 👍
 
kenbro said:
What chambering and bullet please?
Cheers, Ken.
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22-250, handload 55gr Blitzking.

Definitely Jaffa sized. I don’t take any pics of the exit side but my son shot one recently at about 100yds and it took its whole shoulder off.
 
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Len the dog said:
22-250, handload 55gr Blitzking.

Definitely Jaffa sized. I don’t take any pics of the exit side but my son shot one recently at about 100yds and it took its whole shoulder off.
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Some wires getting crossed here.
Asked the question of Ltd and got reply from Foxy.
Then I replied to Foxy!
Thought the holes sounded a little big for 223.
22/250 sounds better.
Thanks to both
Ken.
 
kenbro said:
Some wires getting crossed here.
Asked the question of Ltd and got reply from Foxy.
Then I replied to Foxy!
Thought the holes sounded a little big for 223.
22/250 sounds better.
Thanks to both
Ken.
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Normal for your age - some of the detail was in the original write up!
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Looks like I've got to get up at stupid o'clock.
My fox has been arriving between 4&5 AM!
Little...... monkey.
 
Smellydog said:
Looks like I've got to get up at stupid o'clock.
My fox has been arriving between 4&5 AM!
Little...... monkey.
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Rascal! Had one early in the year (lambing time) which came to the bait between 3 and 4 every morning. Three nights I got up to shoot it, 3 nights of my life gone, never to be regained. Did I get the fox? What do you think? - we must be mad!
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Managed to get out for a few hours last night - shot a dog and vixen at one permission - took me bloody ages to find them even with thermal and short grass - had a walk up and down with a torch in the end 🤦

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Then went onto next permission and shot this big dog fox



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Watched him for a while walking along wood before calling him in with squeek - stopped at 130m and 55gr did the rest

Finished off shooting 7 rats with air rifle

All in all a productive evening 😁
 
I've got a couple of regular visitors to the bait station over the garden wall. They are all over the place with timings and no routine at all yet. Another couple of hours out last night and no sign (despite being the same time they'd been on camera the night before). Just a matter of time before they slip up hopefully!
 
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