Out last night.

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I pitched up at 1830 in an area I hadn’t checked in a while. A deer skin I had left in a stubble field last week had been pulled around a bit and a couple of rather “high” chicken legs had disappeared the last couple of days.
The wind was swirling about a fair bit so I was hoping that anything that would come to the bait 150 yds out in the field would cross from the wood on the far side.
Such was not to be. 🙄 I clocked a fox moving up a ditch nearly parallel to me. A shot was not possible owing to the IR light bouncing off intervening branches. It either got a whiff of me or saw the glow of the IR. Either way it stopped and looked in my direction for a while. Then it started moving again but must have got another whiff and it trotted away up the field and over the brow out of sight. I muttered obscenities to myself for a while. It was cold !🥶
Shortly afterwards I noticed the fox now mooching on the brow of the field, too far and no backstop 🤬.
Patience however is something you always learn as a hunter or take up knitting 🧶. After some short time the fox meandered down to its demise 💥🦊. As usual my terrorist had his few minutes.
 

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I should have posted this a week ago but anyways.
farmer sent us down to one of the places where lambs will be coming to.now we hate this spot as we had a spot of bother last year with comments on face fcuk and police involved.nothing came of it as we were doing nothing illegal and the farmer said " any problems to ring him and he'll come and tell them to fcuk off and mind their own business"but I would be a bit more diplomatic 🤣 but the thought is still there.
so it was a stealth approach, minimal calling, took the shot,picked up sharpish and get out of dodge.not to be😩fox moved just as I fired and I hit it center body and it ran oh fcuk!. luckily only 75 yds,so a quick dash and back to plan A.
on to the next place and spotted one @320yds,now we've been after this one for a while.we reckon it's the lone survivor of a bunch of 8 we cleared up off this farm a couple of weeks ago.all the other times we've seen it it just trotts off never to be seen again.
set up ready for it to come into view and 💥 a good chest hit,it gets up and started to walk 💥 another hit, fcuk me it gets up again and staggers towards us💥 down it goes but it doesn't get up this time.
when ant picked it up all 3 hit's should have been a kill shot ?
time for home for cake and medals.Messenger_creation_700E4F7D-78DD-4065-B451-3DAFD5654633.webpMessenger_creation_C6603A3A-2A66-4541-AF92-25B715E4B0FD.webp
 
Phil fox man said:
I should have posted this a week ago but anyways.
farmer sent us down to one of the places where lambs will be coming to.now we hate this spot as we had a spot of bother last year with comments on face fcuk and police involved.nothing came of it as we were doing nothing illegal and the farmer said " any problems to ring him and he'll come and tell them to fcuk off and mind their own business"but I would be a bit more diplomatic 🤣 but the thought is still there.
so it was a stealth approach, minimal calling, took the shot,picked up sharpish and get out of dodge.not to be😩fox moved just as I fired and I hit it center body and it ran oh fcuk!. luckily only 75 yds,so a quick dash and back to plan A.
on to the next place and spotted one @320yds,now we've been after this one for a while.we reckon it's the lone survivor of a bunch of 8 we cleared up off this farm a couple of weeks ago.all the other times we've seen it it just trotts off never to be seen again.
set up ready for it to come into view and 💥 a good chest hit,it gets up and started to walk 💥 another hit, fcuk me it gets up again and staggers towards us💥 down it goes but it doesn't get up this time.
when ant picked it up all 3 hit's should have been a kill shot ?
time for home for cake and medals.View attachment 406284View attachment 406286
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Once shot a very large heavy dog fox. It soaked up two 222 rounds like nothing happened but sat down. The third shot decked him out. Only 100yds.
 
Phil fox man said:
I should have posted this a week ago but anyways.
farmer sent us down to one of the places where lambs will be coming to.now we hate this spot as we had a spot of bother last year with comments on face fcuk and police involved.nothing came of it as we were doing nothing illegal and the farmer said " any problems to ring him and he'll come and tell them to fcuk off and mind their own business"but I would be a bit more diplomatic 🤣 but the thought is still there.
so it was a stealth approach, minimal calling, took the shot,picked up sharpish and get out of dodge.not to be😩fox moved just as I fired and I hit it center body and it ran oh fcuk!. luckily only 75 yds,so a quick dash and back to plan A.
on to the next place and spotted one @320yds,now we've been after this one for a while.we reckon it's the lone survivor of a bunch of 8 we cleared up off this farm a couple of weeks ago.all the other times we've seen it it just trotts off never to be seen again.
set up ready for it to come into view and 💥 a good chest hit,it gets up and started to walk 💥 another hit, fcuk me it gets up again and staggers towards us💥 down it goes but it doesn't get up this time.
when ant picked it up all 3 hit's should have been a kill shot ?
time for home for cake and medals.View attachment 406284View attachment 406286
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What chambering?
Ken.
 
at 300yds for the first shot I wouldn't have expected a splash, second at around 250yds either and the last at around 180yds as well.it was difficult to determine which shot was which !.
maybe due to shot angles?.
phil.
 
BenBhoy said:
Talking of cold & damp anyone have good cure for chilblains?? Got one on both toes.
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No real cure that I'm aware of but would love to know if there is!! I think the damage is done once they appear - caused by warming cold toes up too quickly and tiny blood vessels bursting as far as I know. I get them from fell running in winter if I jump in the shower afterwards before letting things warm naturally. Which is really hard as I'm usually freezing and muddy so need to jump in the shower! The only solution I have is to not get cold / wet in first place so I run in gore-tex shoes now. Interestingly, I was skiing last week and my feet get really cold (Raynauds) but no chilblains as they warmed up naturally at some point during each day.
 
As a kid I suffered from Chilblains for many winters, when I reached my teens I didn’t notice for a long time but I stopped getting them and never had one since.
Ken.
 
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