Out last night.

[bobjs]

Sorry to butt in guys,following this thread great read.
I am toying with buying nv but having only one deer/fox rifle was looking at an add on unit,whats your thoughts on longbow/archers?
Tone.

hi tone,

i am a drone fan and I don't like add ons so I am not the best one to comment, paddy has a great deal of knowledge on things like Pvs 14 etc as I sold him one a few years back and I know he has a great deal of reading material and a photographic memory if I recall

Bob.

 

[Paddy_SP]

Paddy has a great deal of knowledge on things like Pvs 14 etc as I sold him one a few years back and I know he has a great deal of reading material and a photographic memory if I recall

Bob.

Yes, I'm a great fan of the PVS-14!

 

[finnbear270]

Well three weeks of trying for the one I called the roadrunner, ended on the full moon last night, Pulsar finally christened, (with ir off), this fox never moved round the ground without using the highways/lane, finally gave me a backstop shot.

 

[Paddy_SP]

Well three weeks of trying for the one I called the roadrunner, ended on the full moon last night, Pulsar finally christened, (with ir off), this fox never moved round the ground without using the highways/lane, finally gave me a backstop shot.

Well done - persistence paid off in the end!

 

[finnbear270]

Yup Paddy, the best ammunition for fox. .... Patience!

 

[Happy hunter]

Nothing better than catching up with a problem fox that's gave you the run around, well done.

Ran a n550 with doubler and t67 ir for a good few years, excellent kit for the money.

 

[Paddy_SP]

I had one the other night that'd been eating lambs - when I finally nailed it - an old dog, I found that both its upper canines were missing. Presumably, it wasn't able to catch normal prey so had resorted to the little woolly things.

 

[finnbear270]

Visited a very productive site yesterday afternoon / night, it's name on the map is Fox bank, historically a draw for the Green Collars hunt, now a smallholding bearing sheep & a small amount of fowl & beef, Al had called saying he had seen a couple of cubs entering a smallish rabbit warren on his place, carrying a rabbit, well they are too small at the mo' for catching bunnies for themselves, so I reckoned they were being fed by siblings / and or the dominant dog in the area, he also mentioned he had picked up the vixen halfway through the hedgerow (expired, poisoned) apparently during her trips moving the cubs to his ground, so, I rock up at around 5.30, shoot some good sized bunnies & peripheral vision again winning the day, cop a cat like figure scratching it's ears on a bunny hole entrance, bang!, no more itch!,followed a half hour later by a second cub, damn! it fell back down the hole shot dead, Mate rocks up about nine ish, & plugs another, after dark I employed the revered B&M £4.99 torch .. on test, WOW!, great bit O' kit for the dosh!, reached out to plus 300 yards effectively & reasonably narrow beamed too, We clipped the dog later, unfortunately not with the Fireball, so did not pick up, but I am confident it has expired with a head strike from a HMR, just the grass is way too long for a square search, a couple of exceedingly tasteful cask beers in the Fishpool later & off home to bed.

 

[finnbear270]

Again last night at Al's @ Fox bank, seems a magnet for new colonisers this year, shot another three with the Fireball last night, still busy though another further three seen after packing up early to wait for pickup vehicle to return, late pickup arrival (we missed the pub).... Watch this space (Cotebrook)

 

[finnbear270]

Forgot to mention, that strike that always comes back, ..... From such a tiny round the Fireball .17 is awesome, 168 yards & it sounds like a .270 on deer.

 

[Paddy_SP]

The .204 is also pretty awesome on cubs. I head shot one recently, and from the neck up it'd just vapourised!

 

[finnbear270]

Paddy, the story with the Fireball .17 is this, verbatim, finnbear , I need a .20 Tac, Cheshire licensing ,OOh you can't have one!, ( I think it didn't figure in cartridges of the world at the time), plus TAC aargh ....Tactical???, black rifle syndrome ?????, so, reply was Cheshire licensing,you can have a .243, cos youv'e had one before ... But I don't need one, I need a twenty Tac, purely for the non exit benefits!,Cheshire licensing, NO!... You can have 17 Remington then ..... Finnbear, OK ****i'n K then, I 'll have. .17 REMINGTON FIREBALL, next nearest to 20 TAC then... DOH!!!!!!

 

[Paddy_SP]

Licensing authorities - don't you just love 'em...?

 

[finnbear270]

Falling in love all over again with this little .17 cal worker, checked zero last night off the top of a stack, two large farm rats, & before full dusk set in, the two full grown cubs we saw when leaving Thursday night, one dog one vixen, Pulsar is pretty damn good @ 200, Wrapped up, Picked up, & back home for 11:45.

 

[Paddy_SP]

Falling in love all over again with this little .17 cal worker, checked zero last night off the top of a stack, two large farm rats, & before full dusk set in, the two full grown cubs we saw when leaving Thursday night, one dog one vixen, Pulsar is pretty damn good @ 200, Wrapped up, Picked up, & back home for 11:45.

Excellent! I was on Romance Patrol (i.e. the one evening a week that's dedicated to my wife) last night, but intend to be out again tonight!

 

[Hungry hunter]

Ha romance patrol

 

[finnbear270]

Had some hard work on the Fox this last week, we have had a place where the neighbour allowed us to shoot his ground that surrounded a small holding with sheep & chooks on, just recently the neighbours place was sold lock stock etc, so the chicken chompers could be observed, but not shot, unless they were inside our very small boundaries, well the first chance I had was after a very long cold night on a fire escape balcony, just wrapping up & right on 07:55 it's there, just like it popped up thru the turf, cold hands / fingers conspired to release the shot a micro second early��, now I have an "educated" Vixen ..., over the next week I put in some hours, saw her at 3am ... 8 am, 10:45 pm, ad infinitum,...... she finally decided the game was worth one more try, two hours after the chooks coop doors had closed on auto, she was there again in a legal position, made sure of her this time as we really can't have a den full of hungry cubs this close, now Mike has put a trail cam up again for the Vixen's boyfriend, now a pattern is being logged.

 

[Paddy_SP]

Good luck! We just had a nose around for some wild boar that we saw last week. At the time, we didn't have permission to shoot on the ground in question - now that we've got it sorted, however, they seem to have moved on. We did hear a fox shouting in the adjacent woods so tried to call it in, but nothing doing. So unless a) Paul (my shooting partner) manages to shoot one later and/or b) I manage to escape the family gathering and go out with him, it looks as though we might have to accept 2016's fox tally as it stands!

 

[finnbear270]

B**ger!, Been after a really big dog fox this last two weeks, I know exactly where he pops out of cover, but, It's right next to a very busy trunk road, no backstop at all, but eventually he will present in the centre of the field, Last night I was treated to a weird weather event, little hollows filling with ground mist, bit like that film "The Fog", after it moved away & back in again, Charlie pops out right where expected ..... Wait,.... Wait,.... Wait, BA**ARRRRDDD!, the farmer spooks Charlie with a ruddy tractor!, the mist returns ever thicker & persists ................. Maybe next time?.

 

[Paddy_SP]

B**ger!, Been after a really big dog fox this last two weeks, I know exactly where he pops out of cover, but, It's right next to a very busy trunk road, no backstop at all, but eventually he will present in the centre of the field, Last night I was treated to a weird weather event, little hollows filling with ground mist, bit like that film "The Fog", after it moved away & back in again, Charlie pops out right where expected ..... Wait,.... Wait,.... Wait, BA**ARRRRDDD!, the farmer spooks Charlie with a ruddy tractor!, the mist returns ever thicker & persists ................. Maybe next time?.

Yes, it's maddening when someone screws up a shot like that. I recently had a problem fox (lamb-kiler) come running in to the caller - just before it got into a shootable position, the lady farmer shone her torch up to see what the strange noise was - needless to say, it turned on its heels and disappeared. I did get it in the end, but it took a few visits.

I've also been on the trail of another really wary fox, not far from my house - despite shooting three over the past couple of weeks, the killings (lambs, ducks and chickens) continued. I got lucky last night though - it ran out of a field of sheep and along the top of a hill just after I'd got out of the truck, having pulled in to a lay-by at the bottom. I just had time to get my rifle and sticks out when it came back over the brow and into a safe position (for me, not it). It was just over 200 yards out, but the smack from the strike was convincing enough that I didn't have to hurry up to pick it up - as expected, it was a large dog fox.