2 foxes, 2 shots in 2 hours

[stevienicknacks 2]

Well Mcroy and I decided to take his new Anschutz 1730 .22 hornet out for a test run last night. A farmer on one of our permissions contacted him to say that he was noticing quite a lot of fox activity near the farm yard. We arrived at 8pm and set up 20ft up in a barn (nice and warm on the hay) with a great view across 3 fields which were covered in snow.

 

We set up the Prey master digital caller(also new for Xmas) and tried out a few calls settling on the 'pleading chicken' call. With 30 mins we had 2 foxes cross the field at around 200 yards out. One set off in the opposite direction and the other went into the next field and slowly walked along the hedge line. Visibility was excellent so we decided not to use the lamp. The Annie is set up with an excellent Schmidt and Bender 8x56 scope (crystal clear to 200 yards without a lamp!!!)

 

 

We switched off the caller as the fox got to 140 ish yards and at 120 yards it settled for enough time for Mcroy to take the shot (head shot obviously at that range!!). 1 dead within 30 mins.

 

The second took a bit longer, about an hour later it came back from its original direction and followed the exact same route as the first. We took a similar approach and it stopped around 130 yards out. I took this one with a head shot. Pics below....Mines the biggest

 

Great night, looking forward to the next session.

 

Not sure if I can post pics on here but do have 1.

Edited January 13, 2010 by stevienicknacks

[beggsybluestaff 1]

come on pal lets see it then

[JohnGalway 1,043]

Upload the photo to a site like Photobucket first. Copy and paste the IMG code into your message above and it'll come up fine Well done on the foxes, we got no snow like that over here, I was hoping I would get to do what ye done Will have to try it on the beach instead! lol

[stevienicknacks 2]

Pic uploaded

[The one 8,522]

That bottom one looks a huge fox compared to the top one mate

[stevienicknacks 2]

That bottom one looks a huge fox compared to the top one mate

 

Your right, considering it was a Vixen it was huge in comparison, bigger than some Dog foxes ive seen. The other isnt small but potetially one of last years cubs.

[jonty h 0]

Well done,

i did even better the other night,

1hour 10 minutes and 3 Foxes in the bag, the first 1 was after 5 minutes