With a little drop in the temperature, shoot day on Saturday also it was dry then I thought best to get out.
It has taken some time to be one with the drone as they are a little fussy to dial in all the factors of shooting in the complete dark.
The wind was quartering on my back so I had to be a little carful but one of the houses on the edge of the farm had burnt something like plastic so the acrid smell was drifting to me.
First vixen flashed a couple of times from a hedge and started to try and get around me, so a many times before I walk in the direction they are going but at an angle to cut them off.
I usually count a 70-80 paces then get on the sticks to see as she would keep moving along the headland as they do. 140 yards for her fate was to stop and look for me.
Second older and much heaver vixen was only a couple of hundred yards around the dogs leg of the field, same as before a front end shot the second vixen was heading for the many they lay along that part of the hedge.
A short trip to the main drives showed nothing but firing up my home made caller a glint from the top of the hill had me making a plan, this fox was not daft but neither am I!
I let him be while I got around the back of where he could well of made for, a tiny glint from the edge of a tree was enough.
I slipped sideways to see him sitting watching for me….will the beater
notice him on Saturday as that is where I put the stop…lol
Tim.243
It has taken some time to be one with the drone as they are a little fussy to dial in all the factors of shooting in the complete dark.
The wind was quartering on my back so I had to be a little carful but one of the houses on the edge of the farm had burnt something like plastic so the acrid smell was drifting to me.
First vixen flashed a couple of times from a hedge and started to try and get around me, so a many times before I walk in the direction they are going but at an angle to cut them off.
I usually count a 70-80 paces then get on the sticks to see as she would keep moving along the headland as they do. 140 yards for her fate was to stop and look for me.
Second older and much heaver vixen was only a couple of hundred yards around the dogs leg of the field, same as before a front end shot the second vixen was heading for the many they lay along that part of the hedge.
A short trip to the main drives showed nothing but firing up my home made caller a glint from the top of the hill had me making a plan, this fox was not daft but neither am I!
I let him be while I got around the back of where he could well of made for, a tiny glint from the edge of a tree was enough.
I slipped sideways to see him sitting watching for me….will the beater
notice him on Saturday as that is where I put the stop…lolTim.243
