Out last night.

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I didn't go out last night. To be honest I'm burnt out a bit with it. I've burnt the candle at both ends all year plus.
It's addictive and I felt something was missing so today I got out just after 06:00 and went for a walk with the 17 hmr.
Pheasants everywhere. Skylarks and plover. Pipets and partridge.
All morning not one cock pheasant gave an alarm!
Relentless foxing has worked on here for sure.
I saw one squirrel and missed it 😦.
Hares everywhere, to many.
So I came across what looked like jack and using the parallax judged it at 250yds.
Next I held off with 8" of wind and took the shot.
Straight down, shot to the neck.
My dog loves boiled hare and she gets a treat tomorrow.IMG_20250329_090403.webp
The firing point was the bottom of the grassed bank below the farm buildings.
When someone says 17 hmr is no good, just laugh and walk away.
 
fixedwheel said:
I just picked up its little brother, the 4-12x40 AO HMR, for my next 457 build, good to know the reticle is useful.
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Definitely. I have a basic model in 22 subsonic and that's pretty dam good also.
The only thing I don't like is that it can be difficult to read the range figures under certain backgrounds.
 
Smellydog said:
Definitely. I have a basic model in 22 subsonic and that's pretty dam good also.
The only thing I don't like is that it can be difficult to read the range figures under certain backgrounds.
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I got the AO, as I *might* use it with a Pard. I'm still trying to figure out whether better to have a good glass scope plus add on, or dedicated night rig, like the ATN X-Sight 5 I have on the Savage .22LR for subs.
 
Smellydog said:
Yes sir.
I dialed the PX on 16x until it focused which gets iffy at that distance but I reasoned it wasn't 300 and it certainly was more than 200 so used the 250 ret.
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So it was pure luck then as you guessed the range.
How did you eventually decide it was 250 yds ?
 
Went out with my lad tonight to have a look over some sheep with newborn lambs. Spotted one fox coming out of the woods into the sheep field, it squatted and had a dump, couldn’t shoot as sheep/lambs were right behind it. That one winded us and went back into the woods. An hour later spotted another one working its way towards the sheep. Sent him to sleep with a 55gn vmax at 234 yards. No lamb dinner for this dog fox tonight.image0.webp
 
Nightmare for me..
Went out with the intention of sitting up a highseat over bait. The wind was blowing into my face, and I braved it for 2 minutes before deciding I should drive the short distance to the farm and get a Gator out to have a look around an area of the farm I've neglected for a good few weeks...
I'm rusty with this style of foxing. I've been static or on foot for months, drove the Gator to far past the end of a wood to look along a rough patch. One was happily mousing away, busted by the diesel engine. It slipped into the wood... drove round about a thousand acres and never spotted another fox... got back to where I spotted the mousing vulpine and one was quatering like a slow old Spinger Spaniel in a field of winter wheat, I dumped the Gator and struck of on foot, 150 yards and sticks up.. bang miss.. bugger, I've had an incredible run of kills recently, never mind, I kidded myself that I pulled the shot.
I walked back to the Gator and ran the thermal over the field behind it, and there was a fox.. slowly quartering the field 400 yards away. I'm getting tired by now but never pass up an opportunity, so strike off in pursuit... two fields later I catch up with it, he's on a tiny field and I shuffle down the end of a wood looking for a gap to take a shot.. bang.. miss... wtf.. bugger bugger.
I've had enough by now, and start the long walk back to the Gator I had dumped on the track with the keys still in the ignition...
I should have switched the thermal off... but didn't... and spotted a bemused fox sitting against a hedge wondering what the heck was going on.. then Mr Fox starts walking, and so do I, away from Gator, I managed to catch up with Freddy again on a field called "Searchlights" and it's big, Freddy had found something big on the field and he was trying to pick it up.. at this point I feel like I'm Elmer Fudd creeping up on him.... 195 yards... bang miss :eek::eek:... I really am going home now... missing the same fox three times is embarrassing... how do I know it's the same one... I've named him "One Eye"...
Things couldn't get much worse, could they... I started the mile-long walk back to the Gator... all the time wondering if it would still be there :rolleyes:
The mod never took much cracking off when I got indoors :-|

Going to have a go at the rats for some therapy before I go foxing again. Have a couple of days away from it. I also may use it as an excuse to fit the lighter trigger spring I purchased a few weeks ago....

Atb BD.
 
Bo Diddley said:
Nightmare for me..
Went out with the intention of sitting up a highseat over bait. The wind was blowing into my face, and I braved it for 2 minutes before deciding I should drive the short distance to the farm and get a Gator out to have a look around an area of the farm I've neglected for a good few weeks...
I'm rusty with this style of foxing. I've been static or on foot for months, drove the Gator to far past the end of a wood to look along a rough patch. One was happily mousing away, busted by the diesel engine. It slipped into the wood... drove round about a thousand acres and never spotted another fox... got back to where I spotted the mousing vulpine and one was quatering like a slow old Spinger Spaniel in a field of winter wheat, I dumped the Gator and struck of on foot, 150 yards and sticks up.. bang miss.. bugger, I've had an incredible run of kills recently, never mind, I kidded myself that I pulled the shot.
I walked back to the Gator and ran the thermal over the field behind it, and there was a fox.. slowly quartering the field 400 yards away. I'm getting tired by now but never pass up an opportunity, so strike off in pursuit... two fields later I catch up with it, he's on a tiny field and I shuffle down the end of a wood looking for a gap to take a shot.. bang.. miss... wtf.. bugger bugger.
I've had enough by now, and start the long walk back to the Gator I had dumped on the track with the keys still in the ignition...
I should have switched the thermal off... but didn't... and spotted a bemused fox sitting against a hedge wondering what the heck was going on.. then Mr Fox starts walking, and so do I, away from Gator, I managed to catch up with Freddy again on a field called "Searchlights" and it's big, Freddy had found something big on the field and he was trying to pick it up.. at this point I feel like I'm Elmer Fudd creeping up on him.... 195 yards... bang miss :eek::eek:... I really am going home now... missing the same fox three times is embarrassing... how do I know it's the same one... I've named him "One Eye"...
Things couldn't get much worse, could they... I started the mile-long walk back to the Gator... all the time wondering if it would still be there :rolleyes:
The mod never took much cracking off when I got indoors :-|

Going to have a go at the rats for some therapy before I go foxing again. Have a couple of days away from it. I also may use it as an excuse to fit the lighter trigger spring I purchased a few weeks ago....

Atb BD.
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Zero check first light?!
 
BenBhoy said:
Zero check first light?!
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Yes Ben.
Zero check, certainly, even though I just did that two foxes ago... got a work party to go to, putting up some high seats on the poultry sites this morning 👍
Edit; I think SD said he felt tired because of burning the candle at both ends, so do I tbf, maybe pushing yourself to go out looking four nights a week is a bit much for an old part-timer like me.. full-time work gets in the way 🤣
 
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On the new bit last night, this is the second time I have been busted by a huge farmyard floodlight, I really will have to impress on him if he wants them shot off his yard, off his Goat kids, he needs to shut off the light for a couple of hours, however, I did lay the sight onto several slow feeding Badgers at differing positions out on the meadow, using the laser to see if the firing solution altered, I only found the procedure by messing about a bit, the star? shaped thing down bottom left is what I had to move over the target then press the rangefinder again & ping.... a fresh aiming mark appeared in the reticle, happy days, just need to confirm how accurate (Or not), my inputs have been.:-|
 
Nickb said:
So it was pure luck then as you guessed the range.
How did you eventually decide it was 250 yds ?
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He said he used the parallax adjustment until the image was focused and then you read off what the parallax suggests, that's your range. Accurate to around 25 yards in my experience with a simmons AO scope.
 
Smellydog said:
judged it at 250yds.
Next I held off with 8" of wind and took the shot.
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No rangefinder or wind meter just pure guesswork shows no respect for your quarry.
The shot was lucky and could just as easily have hit it in the backside resulting in a wounded or lost animal.
Why not get closer ? Or are you craving content like the other Youtubers 🤣🤣
 
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