Smellydog
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I shot a vixen in heat end of September I think it was...
Out last night.
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Triggermortis
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This came through…
Hi, just to let you know a fox took one of my duck at 20.30 last night
Well , went up there, set up, sat back, 20 mins and hey presto!!!
Hi, just to let you know a fox took one of my duck at 20.30 last night
Well , went up there, set up, sat back, 20 mins and hey presto!!!
David.evans
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I thought it would have been very cold Sd , going out in shorts this Time of year
Triggermortis
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Smellydog
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You cleared that fox's stuffy sinuses then!
Similar message last night for meThis came through…
Hi, just to let you know a fox took one of my duck at 20.30 last night
Well , went up there, set up, sat back, 20 mins and hey presto!!!
'fox must have came in the day, lost 4 or 5 (laying hens)'
I kitted up for an early visit, onsite by just after 6pm. Conditions are filthy for the thermal, fine drizzle mostly. The sheep stand out well though, so I bump up the contrast to make the best of a bad job.
Only there about fifteen minutes and see an indistinct shape in the thermal; its either deep within, or the far side of the hedge roughly opposite where I stand. It could be a fox, a couched deer or summat in the field beyond.
Cant get any eyeshine off the nv. I wet my lips and pucker up to give a few squeaks, ignored at first but eventually movement. I chamber a round slowly in the 204.
After what seems an age, a fox appears and sits, I waste not a moment and it folds.
Its a vixen. A quick ping with the Telos lrf, and it was 55m, she lay deep within the hedge still, sort of a cave like gap in the hedge. There is a really well used run inside this big old tree studded hedge, allowing the fox to shuttle up and down largely unseen. I don't think there is an answer to that, its a pain!!
No eggs left out for me in the shed, I guess he is a little short of them now.
Now that I am out and already wet from the fine drizzle, I pop round to another farm where a fox has shown lately. This one is higher up on the edge of the mendips; and clagged in with pretty heavy fog. The thermal cuts through it well enough to scan, but the nv torch on the rifle not so much. No fox seen, and the worsening drizzle sees me off home by around 10pm.
Out on the rats tonight with the FAC 22 airgun. There are bound to be some left still.
Foxyboy43
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Someone asking for a stuffed fox down in Classifieds.
All mine are stuffed, the minute they step on the bit I look after!
Another bash at the rats last night, and loaded up with hollow point slugs to try them out.
If you thought pellets at @ 30ft/lb made a nice thwack, treat yourself to some hollowpoint slugs!!
That's if your barrel likes them of course.
Nailed five rats, then the rain swept in.
If you thought pellets at @ 30ft/lb made a nice thwack, treat yourself to some hollowpoint slugs!!
That's if your barrel likes them of course.
Nailed five rats, then the rain swept in.
Smellydog
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Smellydog
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Well tonight really.
Bump into this fox that retreated to a spinney.
I knew it was waiting for the shepherd to finish for the night in the lambing shed so I hung around.
Sure enough when he turned the lights off and went in out came the fox making for the lambing shed.
Healthy vixen, honest 160 paces.
Bump into this fox that retreated to a spinney.
I knew it was waiting for the shepherd to finish for the night in the lambing shed so I hung around.
Sure enough when he turned the lights off and went in out came the fox making for the lambing shed.
Healthy vixen, honest 160 paces.
Foxyboy43
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Funny old night tonight. Had to cancel a sheep protection trip because of family visit then later got a call from a nearby new-tome farmer who had “lost another lamb” just 15 mins ago. Family has just gone so quick gathering up and off I set….
Long story short - first scan of fields with Axion Inspotted a fox 3 fields away - quick squeak of Mark I back of hand and in it came from my 11 o’clock like the proverbial express train; stopped it at 80 yards and 50gns Vmax trundling along at just under 3000 fps made a very positive WHUMPPP confirming a good hit. Decided to stay where I was - backed against a hedge and set the Ico 500 on with the BFC call at volume setting 6 shortly reduced to 3. Another quick 180 scan and another fox coming in hard right at speed - so fast the Record button was forgotten (who said “as usual?) but stopped it at 100 and again another distinctive WHUMPP confirmed a good strike.
Gave it another 30 mins then called it a night and gathered up the slain. A nice dog and a small vixen - of note was that the dog had a totally hairless testicle which was a bit of a first - guessing possibly painful and licked bare? Any other ideas?
Met new-to-me farmer on way out of yard who told me tonight’s lamb was their 12th lost to foxes and this was only 15 minutes after he had seen it delivered! Do the sums at £90-100 a lamb! So I am now his new best friend and got new ground to shoot on plus the promise of intros to his neighbours who also have sheep - result!
The Axion thermal, Pard 008P and Solaris IR are a fantastic combination - add to the mix old FB’s hand squeak and the Ico 500 and it is almost unfair. Then factor in the sainted triple deuce and the foxes have no chance - bit like me remembering the record button really….
Long story short - first scan of fields with Axion Inspotted a fox 3 fields away - quick squeak of Mark I back of hand and in it came from my 11 o’clock like the proverbial express train; stopped it at 80 yards and 50gns Vmax trundling along at just under 3000 fps made a very positive WHUMPPP confirming a good hit. Decided to stay where I was - backed against a hedge and set the Ico 500 on with the BFC call at volume setting 6 shortly reduced to 3. Another quick 180 scan and another fox coming in hard right at speed - so fast the Record button was forgotten (who said “as usual?) but stopped it at 100 and again another distinctive WHUMPP confirmed a good strike.
Gave it another 30 mins then called it a night and gathered up the slain. A nice dog and a small vixen - of note was that the dog had a totally hairless testicle which was a bit of a first - guessing possibly painful and licked bare? Any other ideas?
Met new-to-me farmer on way out of yard who told me tonight’s lamb was their 12th lost to foxes and this was only 15 minutes after he had seen it delivered! Do the sums at £90-100 a lamb! So I am now his new best friend and got new ground to shoot on plus the promise of intros to his neighbours who also have sheep - result!
The Axion thermal, Pard 008P and Solaris IR are a fantastic combination - add to the mix old FB’s hand squeak and the Ico 500 and it is almost unfair. Then factor in the sainted triple deuce and the foxes have no chance - bit like me remembering the record button really….
Smellydog
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Good work FB.Funny old night tonight. Had to cancel a sheep protection trip because of family visit then later got a call from a nearby new-tome farmer who had “lost another lamb” just 15 mins ago. Family has just gone so quick gathering up and off I set….
Long story short - first scan of fields with Axion Inspotted a fox 3 fields away - quick squeak of Mark I back of hand and in it came from my 11 o’clock like the proverbial express train; stopped it at 80 yards and 50gns Vmax trundling along at just under 3000 fps made a very positive WHUMPPP confirming a good hit. Decided to stay where I was - backed against a hedge and set the Ico 500 on with the BFC call at volume setting 6 shortly reduced to 3. Another quick 180 scan and another fox coming in hard right at speed - so fast the Record button was forgotten (who said “as usual?) but stopped it at 100 and again another distinctive WHUMPP confirmed a good strike.
Gave it another 30 mins then called it a night and gathered up the slain. A nice dog and a small vixen - of note was that the dog had a totally hairless testicle which was a bit of a first - guessing possibly painful and licked bare? Any other ideas?
Met new-to-me farmer on way out of yard who told me tonight’s lamb was their 12th lost to foxes and this was only 15 minutes after he had seen it delivered! Do the sums at £90-100 a lamb! So I am now his new best friend and got new ground to shoot on plus the promise of intros to his neighbours who also have sheep - result!
The Axion thermal, Pard 008P and Solaris IR are a fantastic combination - add to the mix old FB’s hand squeak and the Ico 500 and it is almost unfair. Then factor in the sainted triple deuce and the foxes have no chance - bit like me remembering the record button really….
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Wants some sudacrem on that!
Foxyboy43
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Blanked last night, on site at sunset, left when the snow started early hours.
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