51 from 2 small fields since January so what ever you do they keep turning up.Musta hurt passing the log in the background.
Out last night.
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Foxyboy43
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Yep and the pair that make up the terrible trio; annoyingly changing the call to a screech brought it out of cover from maybe 400 away into range - first in a while any of the three responded to a call.Think the duck is busted with that one mate
Really thought I was going to get that one last night - easily recognisable by the injury and clever use of the barbed wire fence to prevent a shot….
Foxyboy43
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Mr Tree
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Looked lamp shy to me? Is that Zulu IR Covert?Yep and the pair that make up the terrible trio; annoyingly changing the call to a screech brought it out of cover from maybe 400 away into range - first in a while any of the three responded to a call.
Really thought I was going to get that one last night - easily recognisable by the injury and clever use of the barbed wire fence to prevent a shot….
Foxyboy43
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Nickb
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Not up here they don't.51 from 2 small fields since January so what ever you do they keep turning up.
It depends on the population density.
Down Essex and Kent you have a very high density of urban foxes.
Up North we don't have anywhere near the population density.
I'm disappointed you didnt give it a fair chance and go hand to paw combat with it#60
Strange one tonight. Spotted a heat source laid up in a hedge some 500 yds away , thinking it was a fox I put on a stalk on it. Couldn't decide if it was a hare or fox until I checked it out with the Nv, which confirmed it was
It was tucked up that tight in the hedge all I could see was the black tops of its ears ..so aiming just below squeezed of the shot , checked through the thermal confirmed it laid motionless.
Now the interesting part. When I got up to it and only about 2 yards away I saw it's head move , then it jumped up cackling and lunged at me , I nearly shat myself. Had to jump back and promptly shot it again.
On inspection the bullet had created a flesh wound across the atlas joint, enough to knock it out until I got close and it attacked.
I had visions of a lively fox being latched on to my leg , now that would have been interesting
Decent dog fox
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That would have made for a good story!
Good result palFinally out for the first time in two months, parked up and headed off to the start point of my usual beat to wait for proper dark, only it didn’t arrive. Big full moon thankfully hidden by clouds to start with but was climbing quickly.
Just as I was about to set off the first customer arrived but was obscured and I was out in the open, he spotted me and I thought that was it but he just moved further along the line of trees and in the tail grass. I rushed it and a complete miss.
Headed off towards my usual productive stand and came across another on the other side of the boundary but fortunately I have permission there too, the shot was obscured by branches in the IR and again busted as I tried to manoeuvre, I also think it was the same fox so he wasn’t hanging around.
Move on to my stand and deploy the, up to now untested, Foxyboy special must have caller, a few seconds of Fox Mating and nothing, until I turn to my left and there’s a fox sat about 40yds away watching me. The sticks were pointing the wrong way and she busted me, off to the trees. However, she crossed the boundary and came out at the top of a bank opposite, a few mouth squeaks to get her clear of more overhanging branches and down from the skyline and she was side on at about 100yds.
A short while later I tried the 17 minute long squeak that @pazmino kindly supplied and within seconds another one was out of the wood off to my side. He came trotting in to about 50yds and saw me, but instead of running he sat on his haunches looking straight at me, fortunately the sticks were in the general direction and number two dropped.
I packed in shortly after but as I was setting off after hedging these two, I was sure I could hear what seemed very much to me to be another caller playing a squeaking call from across the other side of the boundary, but on a farm that I do not have permission to.
But anyway, big shout to FB for putting us onto the little Y-501, worked a treat.
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That little FB caller is certainly doing the do
I had a similar incident last year with hearing what I thought was a caller over the road from where I was shooting, I was pitched up and with the wind in my face and his caller coming from behind me I patiently waited to see if anything was on route through my field, behold a fox trotting along the hedgline oblivious to my presence so I gave it a oi and it sat down just shy of 100yrds and I dropped it, matey boy stopped calling after that
Len the dog
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Now that would be funny if it was some misguided do-gooder calling them in for a free meal.matey boy stopped calling after that
Cracking way to spend a afternoon mate
Nickb
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Ain't it a bummer..Been looking forward all bloody boring day to ambushing some of the three foxes tormenting me - currently honking outside and rain hitting the windows like pistol shots. Bugger, bugger, bugger….
stavross
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Wild out there chaps, lad rang me a couple of hours ago asking if I could get him some dog food because the lad who normally gets it has broken his ankle, so off I went, got him 4 big hoppers, went old school with the Hornady magnum rimfire and a lamp, you can tell they get hammered where I went as they really don’t like the lamp, anyway got him enough to keep him going until I go and get him a roe before the weekend, seen a fox but with the wind and rain I thought “ there’s no way I’m getting that anywhere near me for a shot “ so left it a rabbit and I’ll give that a go later in the week, home now to dry out 
Bo Diddley
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I got a nice one a couple of nights ago, 170 yarder off the quad sticks from the bottom of my garden, it made up for the one I thought I had "missed"completely the night before... I walked over to pick it up the next morning, took both the Borders as it was in a rape field, and blow me down they found two of the buggers.. the one I thought I had missed was drilled clean as a whistle, in one side of the ribs and out the other, I never heard a bullet strike and watched a fox run off through the Pard and then followed it with the thermal... must have been another one with it in the rape that I never knew about...
Couple of vixens...
Couple of vixens...
Phil fox man
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that's a really good feeling when you think you missed and then find itI got a nice one a couple of nights ago, 170 yarder off the quad sticks from the bottom of my garden, it made up for the one I thought I had "missed"completely the night before... I walked over to pick it up the next morning, took both the Borders as it was in a rape field, and blow me down they found two of the buggers.. the one I thought I had missed was drilled clean as a whistle, in one side of the ribs and out the other, I never heard a bullet strike and watched a fox run off through the Pard and then followed it with the thermal... must have been another one with it in the rape that I never knew about...
Couple of vixens...
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.it's easy to loose your mark and be looking in the wrong spot.
phil.
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