Out last night.

Bleak Ridge is a family-run business, selling country clothing and workwear
you guys seem to get out late
i arrive at the farm on sunset (met office time) and by the time ive put bait on a couple of spikes
and got up a high seat the light is just going
i normally see my first fox anywhere within 10 minutes to 1/2 hour of getting there
last week i put bait (two partridge carcasses) on a spike at 4.00pm and when i went back to it at 6.30pm it had gone
sat up the high seat near too that spike put the caller on and had a fox come in within 5 minutes
i shot 4 and was back home by 9.30pm :)
 
wabbit warren said:
you guys seem to get out late
i arrive at the farm on sunset (met office time) and by the time ive put bait on a couple of spikes
and got up a high seat the light is just going
i normally see my first fox anywhere within 10 minutes to 1/2 hour of getting there
last week i put bait (two partridge carcasses) on a spike at 4.00pm and when i went back to it at 6.30pm it had gone
sat up the high seat near too that spike put the caller on and had a fox come in within 5 minutes
i shot 4 and was back home by 9.30pm :)
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Wish that was an option but by time ive helped put kids to bed, I'm lucky to arrive by 2130!!
 
Saturday night was a disaster, couldn't walk without letting everything know due to the crust on the couple of inches of snow we had left. I did get a pair on Thursday night before it arrived- a daft dog which sat wondering what i was for far too long, followed by a wary vixen half an hour later. She did a wide loop around me but I got in her path and bided my time. 20260107_235922.webp
 
wabbit warren said:
you guys seem to get out late
i arrive at the farm on sunset (met office time) and by the time ive put bait on a couple of spikes
and got up a high seat the light is just going
i normally see my first fox anywhere within 10 minutes to 1/2 hour of getting there
last week i put bait (two partridge carcasses) on a spike at 4.00pm and when i went back to it at 6.30pm it had gone
sat up the high seat near too that spike put the caller on and had a fox come in within 5 minutes
i shot 4 and was back home by 9.30pm :)
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You're lucky , urban Essex foxes are no challenge. Try wary fell foxes 👍
 
Nickb said:
You're lucky , urban Essex foxes are no challenge. Try wary fell foxes 👍
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No thanks Nick I'll stick to what i know thanks lol
same species just different situations
just like high pheasants, there the same birds just pushed over valleys from mountain tops each side. they don't fly any higher than the birds we shoot down here.
 
wabbit warren said:
you guys seem to get out late
i arrive at the farm on sunset (met office time) and by the time ive put bait on a couple of spikes
and got up a high seat the light is just going
i normally see my first fox anywhere within 10 minutes to 1/2 hour of getting there
last week i put bait (two partridge carcasses) on a spike at 4.00pm and when i went back to it at 6.30pm it had gone
sat up the high seat near too that spike put the caller on and had a fox come in within 5 minutes
i shot 4 and was back home by 9.30pm :)
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Earliest I have shot fox, 2pm sunny afternoon.
 
wabbit warren said:
No thanks Nick I'll stick to what i know thanks lol
same species just different situations
just like high pheasants, there the same birds just pushed over valleys from mountain tops each side. they don't fly any higher than the birds we shoot down here.
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Same species yep but one a lot smarter than the other , ask any grouse keeper.
 
I can always tell a townie from a wild stock fox.
Townies are soft, easily fooled, eat shite and outright scavenging vermin. Lord knows how they pick up town folk habits so well.
 
Another did not see, just heard one barking a few times, not far away.
What was enjoyable was when the cock pheasants all decided to call to each other all at the same time. Dozens and dozens of them. They have left local shoots and come to my fox free zones for some peace!
 
Smellydog said:
Another did not see, just heard one barking a few times, not far away.
What was enjoyable was when the cock pheasants all decided to call to each other all at the same time. Dozens and dozens of them. They have left local shoots and come to my fox free zones for some peace!
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Yes when they all call together - or one starts and its spreads to hundreds in our woods - always a good indication of a fox
 
jall55 said:
Yes when they all call together - or one starts and its spreads to hundreds in our woods - always a good indication of a fox
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Not at night when it's dark. They are just calling.
In the day a single bird " cocking up" as we call it has definitely seen something nasty. Wait for next bird and you can work out it's line of travel.
 
They do the same in response to very distant artillery fire. Also Concord when she went supersonic instigated the same. I used to live under her outbound US fllght path.
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Smellydog said:
Not at night when it's dark. They are just calling.
In the day a single bird " cocking up" as we call it has definitely seen something nasty. Wait for next bird and you can work out it's line of travel.
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I beg to differ on that SD - i have watched a fox walk through a wood - and the pheasants calls are just in advance of it - awesome to watch and hear
Not had it once or twice happen but at least 50 / 60 times mate
 
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