Jarvis
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Good work mate, it does disorientate you when it’s dark to gauge distance and it’s a bloody nightmare to find Charlie or any other quarry in crops! I had a Charlie earlier this year in wheat, was only about a foot high but high enough to stop the thermal giving the heat source when he was on the deck, so I did as you said, go back next day with the dog ? and I worked out I was looking about 25 yards in the wrong direction!
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I think where I am shoot one and 5 come to the funeral!! Yes defo pairing up! I’ll be using the mating call again I think but baiting up areas is working at the moment.
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Well done mate. We had our first shoot on Tuesday. Had a similar thing but it was the first drive. Sent some beaters off around a lake with a belt off trees and the rest of us bringing up a field and cover crop only to hear Charlie!! I was gutted!! The chap is a bit of a joker and knows how hard I’ve been hitting them. Really thought I was getting on top of them! Anyway to cut a long story short I’ve shot 9 in under a week up the shoot now so hopefully that will have gone some way to soaring my blushes! They are defo pairing up. I shot one pair last night, moved up into the next field and saw
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Have you tried baiting them to a certain area to take a safe shot? But I suspect if they are lamp shy even if you get them taking the bait as soon as that lamp hits them they will be gone... Do you know someone local with NV who could help you deal with them without the need for a lamp...
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Touch wood we don’t get anti trouble around us. I’m not too worried though it just gives me another job to do ?
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I use a .22-250. I zero it inch high at 100 yards. My rifle is too heavy to by trying to sneak in closer and I don’t want to be walking around in the dark when there is a chance I could fall when out on my own or even just walk on debris and spook the fox. I have faith in the kit I use to drop foxes out at 300 yards, if it wasn’t a safe short or I wasn’t confident I wouldn’t do it. I see what you mean about numbers and feeding them up but when on a shoot the owners want to see numbers and as long as it means there a birds on shoot days they are happy. Cheers
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Oh don't get me wrong I know some great terrier men and great huntsmen! I wouldn't tar them all with the same brush. It's like all things, some people are better at their job than others. I just think it's bad to say no it's too deep (when it really isnt) when you've been asked to dig Charlie out if he goes to ground.
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I went to a hunt ball this year with my Mrs and some friends, I had to keep a low profile. I’m not too popular with the local hunts! Haha! Fox control defo can’t be left to the hunts! It’s just fustrating when they are on the shoot and the put a Charlie to ground. Anywhere else I would doth my cap to it but on the shoot m we obviously want all foxes delt with. The terrier man turned up to the earth and went “nah that’s too deep..” it was two holes in a small bank!
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We have three different hunts over the ground. Doesn’t say much for their terrier men...
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Haha! Never realised shooting 40 foxes would start such a debate!
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I’m a fan also of bait and wait. If you know your ground you know common fox routes are. I just get up on the tailgate of my truck rifle on the roof with that caller and wait for them to come to me. I liken it to fishing more than lamping.
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I was chuffed with it, only literally taken a couple at that distance, my best being 343 yards. I wouldn’t do it unless I had complete faith in my kit and goes without saying was an ultra safe shot!
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So fustrating when that happens. I’ve lost count the amount of times I’ve been out seen nothing then one runs infront of my truck crossing the road on the way home! ?
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Had a look out tonight, decided which field I was going to park in as I got to the shoot and as soon as I pulled into the field there was one out wondering across the field. I switched the truck engine off, turned off my lights and quietly got onto the back of my truck. By this time it was 250 yards away. A short sharp squeak stopped it and the 55grain dropped it. After that I put the caller on straight away and within 2 mins I had one behind me trying to catch my wind, before it had chance to I dropped that at 160 yards. I was happy with two so decided to call it an early night. Driving into
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Nice work mate! Two definate poult killers delt with! Last year me and a mate were out watching this fox around 350 yards away. We could have shot it but decided to call it a bit closer. We tried two different rabbit calls then a mouse call. All he did was lift his head up then carry on sniffing around. We changed to the pheasant distress and he came leathering it in like a steam train! Literally covered 100 yards in about 5 seconds! Interesting how different foxes react to different calls. I shot one two weeks ago and all I did was a tiny squeak pursing my lips together and it was nearl
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Oh apologies ,I thought you meant you need to remove them all (which isn’t possible) and it shouldn’t be seen as sport. Love it or loath it I think with all the advancement in technology it has now became a sport in its own right obviously being pest control at the same time. Doing part time keeping on a shoot I take out every fox I see no exceptions, but I enjoy it far too much to never see another. On other permissions I have if they have a problem fox and I can identify the offending fox I will take it out and not hammer every one within a 5 mike radius.
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Haha my mate said the same thing to me. It doesn’t help when the previous keeper before me used to shoot about 3-4 a year then wonder where all the birds were on shoot days! Plus neighbouring farmers do next to no fox control.
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Yes but why do it if you don’t enjoy it... foxing is a sport now a days just like decoying pigeons which is also pest control. When it becomes a chore it’s time to stop not when you remove all the foxes because that ain’t going to happen. Any land owner that thinks you can remove all foxes is a fool! It’s all about control and management.
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I wouldn’t want it to be the last one I enjoy foxing too much and I’ve spent too much money on kit to not see anymore!!
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I got fox number 40 last week at the shoot. That’s 40 shot since January on 500 acres. That should have gone a good way to helping the poults, now to just control Charlie numbers and to stop the Ba$#ard poults from wondering!!
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No getting out of paying for GP fees anymore
Jarvis replied to Born Hunter's topic in Rimfire, Centrefire & Shotguns
On the BASC website... Notts, which currently has responsibility for around 10,000 licences, has amended their policy in line with changes made by police in Lincolnshire, Kent and Merseyside. This is despite current Home Office guidance stating that if a police force does not receive a response to their initial request for medical information from an applicant’s GP, they should assume there are no medical issues and grant a licence. BASC is requesting meetings with the Chief Constable of Notts Police, Craig Gilford, and the force’s Police and Crime Commissioner, Paddy Tipping, t -
I agree with Stavross I have a .243 and I think it’s a fantastic all rounder, I use it for muntjac, roe, fallow and foxes in day time. I have a dedicated NV set up on a .22-250 which is just fox foxes and it’s deadly! Inch high zero at 100 yds comfortable flat shooting to 300 at night, fast bullet and extremely accurate. Saying that I don’t think there is much difference between it and a .223, just my personal preference is a .22-250 as it what my mate had when I got into foxing so I got the same. These .22 cf Are usually shot with 50 or 55 grains and I would not go out shooting deer wit
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I think it’s just one of those things that some people have been using for years and dare not stop using it in case they see a drop off in birds in certain areas but to be honest once we have used up the bucket we have we won’t be getting any more... I'm not completely writing off the merits some people may have seen using it but I personally haven’t seen enough of a reason to buy more. I think If you have your woods/ covers set up right so they are attractive to birds and dog birds in daily they’ll hang around.
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I brought some at the midland last year and did a similar thing with some small feeders in the pens, put two next to each other one with it in one without to see what went down quicker. The one with it in did go down quicker but not by a lot. Also we had a fallow that would knock down every feeder we put it in to get to the wheat and I caught the bugger on camera doing it!
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Very true mate!
