Your first fox 🦊

[the prowler]

think I were 17 or 18. Even in the middle of winter my mums hanging the washing out. Probably 1990. Fast forward to 2026

 

[WalkedUp]

My first fox was with my Aya Yeoman, walked up.

 

[old keeper]

Mine was at age 11 with a 22LR (things were different back then)!

 

[Smellydog]

My first was at 17 with a single 12g. It came waltzing towards me along a hedge and I tucked in and shot it at three yards.

 

[JoJo15]

15 Years old - came in like a steam train.
20 Bore Rizzini loaded with BB’s.

 

[BenBhoy]

Mine was with mcnab lowlander 12 bore. Probably 18 years old. I was member of a bobbery pack ran by fella named Phil Lloyd in the Conwy valley. Line of guns & then dogs would work cover, basically like a beating line = driven fox! I was 20yd behind some gorse and first fox bolted, gave him both using #3 shot. Was buzzing.

First rifle fox was with hmr browning t-bolt, early morning on some fresh silage.

 

[desperate dan]

Think mine would have been when I was 17, ferreting an old pit in the corner of a cover crop just after the season had finished, bolted by a very grumpy old hob

 

[Longstrider]

My first fox was taken with a .223 courtesy of the 'keeper I spent much of my youth with. Having established that I could shoot small enough groups at 100yds he settled me down one evening to watch over a bait point about 80ygs away, told me to 'keep alive' (awake) and left me there alone. I had sat out for foxes many times with him 'on the gun' before but this was to be my first 'solo flight'.
After about 45 mins I thought he had been pulling my leg, but then he appeared, a nice big dog fox sauntering up to the bait without a care in the world. As soon as he stopped I settled the crosshairs on his chest and squeezed. Almost before he hit the deck a voice behind me made me jump as it boomed out in the now semi-darkness "That'll do boy !" The crafty old sod had been sitting not 10yds away watching everything. I was 10 at the time, and felt every bit 'The Great White Hunter' for at least a week

 

[Tyla]

Probably age about 16, shot a 3/4 grown cub with 6's in an ancient folding 20 bore with a maglite held under the barrel by tape. I'd been rabbit shooting with the same set up and the fox had the bad luck to come in the the scent while I was gutting a pile

 

[Emsland]

I think I was around 18, sitting at a small ditch with the drilling of my father, when all of a sudden a fox jumped over the ditch.

 

[FISH BOY]

Not my first fox, but certainly the most memorable was at my sister’s 9th birthday party - I was 13.

She and her friends were downstairs celebrating and I was upstairs in my room, when a fox jumped on our makeshift bird table (2ft x2ft board on a cut tree)

Oblivious to the party, I edged my trusty Wembley Vulcan .22 out of my bedroom window connecting with the white of the ear causing a Marlin pirouette gushing blood everywhere and slumping upside down on the deck not more than 30ft from the house.

That’s when I heard the screams - lots of them - boy did I get a caning for that.

 

[muddy42]

with 6s in a 28 bore at 10 yrds.