When i was Younger and still living in Wales i use to shoot these.

[Daz 7 563]

As You get older You appreciate the country side and all it's wealth in Wildlife and the amazing sights You can see if Your quite and Patient.

When i look back to when i was Younger i did not see the beauty in some animals but just saw them as a Pest and something the Farmers

wanted rid of and dealt with My Grandad's trusty 303 or Side by side shotgun.

Now i could no longer Kill these Beautiful animals and am lucky to have a Tame Vixen who clears up My Vermin Kills so there's no wastage.

She lives in a Neighbours Garden and is fed by the Lady as well, As You can see She's a fine Specimen who doesn't bother the numerous cat's

and quietly goes from Garden to garden not bothering anyone, So for Me i'll let Her be and just keep on admiring how lovely She is.

 

atvb Daz 7.

 

[Buster321c 1,010]

Love it Daz , nice one buddy .

[Daz 7 563]

Love it Daz , nice one buddy .

 

Cheers Craig Bud

Like Pete i Used to shoot loads of them When i was Younger and More Blood thirsty .

Now i just like to watch them, Couldn't bring Myself to Kill another Fox.

 

atvb Daz 7.

Edited August 10, 2012 by Daz 7

[zini 1,939]

Awesome clip Daz, she is a lovely specimen and one I'd love to photograph.

 

Wish there wad one like that coming onto my garden, but then again my pattterdale wouldn't take kindly to that.

 

Si.

 

[Phantom 631]

I love Foxes, but I cant wait to get a pelt for the wall (Preferably a fresh road kill one)

 

I see loads around here running up and down the streets, I've even had the rather scarry experiance of one brushing up against my leg as it passed me one evening running between me and the traffic. I say scarry, because I wasn't expecting it, it was dark and I nearly shat mesen

 

Wehen I clean the quarry in the cemy, I often leave the entrails at points around the place, to bring in the local foxes when there about the living bunnies tend to keep a low profile and do less damage, so the foxes make me look good.

 

Tony

[Malt 379]

I love seeing them where they ain't causing any problems, beautiful creatures.

 

Got no problem seeing them decked either though!

[Daz 7 563]

Cheers Lads

She's a Cracker and a Lovely Gentle Temperament, Walks passed all the Neighbours Cats

and doesn't go for the Doves and other birds in our Gardens, I suppose it's cause she's well fed by everyone. :laugh:

 

atvb Daz 7.

[Malt 379]

She's in good nick Daz.

[Daz 7 563]

Aye Malt

Shes a Cracker no fear at all, the Old Lady Opposite hand feeds Her

 

atvb Daz 7.

[pianoman 3,587]

What a beautiful animal.

 

Daz that was a lovely thing to read. I know exactly what you mean. I had a similar epiphany moment years ago and the wonderful wildlife and those scents and smells from the fields we are privelledged to see and sense when we are about our permissions makes this an amazing sport to be a part of. all the more for it.

 

There was a family of foxes on my permission some years ago that I saw often. For some reason I didn't want to open fire on them anymore but, I had the idea of seeing if I could nurture them to appear in safety more often and would leave a few headshot rabbits for them. I'd sometimes set them up like decoys and the Vixen and her cubs would pop out at the last light of dusk and the little ones had a "Kill" to brag about! I haven't seen very many foxes since and that's not right somehow. However it changed me from a shoot-every-pest-above-grass hunter, to a shooter with a sense of conservation, to keep things in order. Not anhialate the wildlife completely. And leave oneself with nothing to shoot next season. If things reached serious levels of infestation with rabbits and squirrels and foxes that would be a different matter. But, on my shoot they are not. I only make exception of this to rats. Shoot the lot of those!

 

Well done and congratulations mate, you've just become a natural born countryman.

 

Better than living in a city anyday!

 

Regards.

 

Simon

Edited August 10, 2012 by pianoman

[Daz 7 563]

What a beautiful animal.

 

Daz that was a lovely thing to read. I know exactly what you mean. I had a similar epiphany moment years ago and the wonderful wildlife and those scents and smells from the fields we are privelledged to see and sense when we are about our permissions makes this an amazing sport to be a part of. all the more for it.

 

There was a family of foxes on my permission some years ago that I saw often. For some reason I didn't want to open fire on them anymore but, I had the idea of seeing if I could nurture them to appear in safety more often and would leave a few headshot rabbits for them. I'd sometimes set them up like decoys and the Vixen and her cubs would pop out at the last light of dusk and the little ones had a "Kill" to brag about! I haven't seen very many foxes since and that's not right somehow. However it changed me from a shoot-every-pest-above-grass hunter, to a shooter with a sense of conservation, to keep things in order. Not anhialate the wildlife completely. And leave oneself with nothing to shoot next season. If things reached serious levels of infestation with rabbits and squirrels and foxes that would be a different matter. But, on my shoot they are not. I only make exception of this to rats. Shoot the lot of those!

 

Well done and congratulations mate, you've just become a natural born countryman.

 

Better than living in a city anyday!

 

Regards.

 

Simon

 

Cheers Simon

 

Always will be a country boy, Even though i now Live in a Big City, I was born and Bred in the Rural Valleys of Mid Glamorgan, South Wales.

And i'm the same Rats Shoot on sight filthy things, Give Me the Creeps.

 

atvb Daz 7.

[pianoman 3,587]

My first wife came from Tonypandy in the Rhondda Daz. We had some lovely holidays touring the South Welsh coast.

[Daz 7 563]

My first wife came from Tonypandy in the Rhondda Daz. We had some lovely holidays touring the South Welsh coast.

 

I'm From the next Valley along Simon, A little Village called Troedyrhiw, 1 Mile from that Tragedy that happened to the School in Aberfan.

 

atvb Daz 7.

[bouncer 51]

My first wife came from Tonypandy in the Rhondda Daz. We had some lovely holidays touring the South Welsh coast.

 

I'm From the next Valley along Simon, A little Village called Troedyrhiw, 1 Mile from that Tragedy that happened to the School in Aberfan.

 

atvb Daz 7.

you know franky thomas then daz.

[Pink or stink 162]

I'm intrigued by this "epiphany" mentioned above. I had one 12 years ago when the daughter was born. From that day I couldn't shoot a thing. Thirty years of shooting deer, geese, vermin & game all stopped overnight. I actually gave my guns away gratis the feeling was so strong. I recently left a humane mouse trap unattended and a mouse got in and died; it bothered me for weeks. I read about people like Sir Peter Scott who likewise had a moment of clarity and thought it a load of tosh at the time, I was wrong.

 

That fox/footage could almost be my garden as I have the privilege of a semi-tame fox that the daughter video's from time to time; great footage OP.