shropshire dan 467 Posted January 4, 2015 Report Share Posted January 4, 2015 Went to the local perm this morning armed with the .22-250 hoping to bag a couple foxes. Within minutes of being their spotted 2 with the binos at about 400 meters which appeared to be playing, so shouldered the rifle and then realised they we're stuck ass to ass with each other. Waited 10 minutes to see if they would break it up and they didn't so i dropped the cross hairs onto the smaller of the 2 thinking that was the vixen and then over thought the shot and started to doubt my capabilities. Decided not to squeeze the trigger as I didn't believe I could take 1. They eventually split up and went their separate ways. The bigger 1 came galloping straight towards me stopping briefly to smell the area every 20 -30 meters then stopped at about 150 yards I was already settled on the bipod 1 little squeak to get a better target he turned as though to puff his chest out then it was lights out a 200 yard zero left no adjustments required. As I went to stand the other smaller one came out of the hedge and started smelling it's friend a quick reloed after making the rifle safe put the cross hairs on its shoulder and again the 50g vmax at 4000fps got their in no time. Turned out the smaller fox was the dog. Was very angry as I forgot my phone and couldn't get a pic 2 Quote Link to post
shropshire dan 467 Posted January 4, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2015 I genuinely thought it was a month or two away Lol. Quote Link to post
DeerhoundLurcherMan 997 Posted January 4, 2015 Report Share Posted January 4, 2015 Good shooting Dan,pics mean nothing mate. How many you had with the 250 now? Quote Link to post
shropshire dan 467 Posted January 4, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2015 Cheers buddy. Only 9 so far. Not many but gaining more confidence with the setup each time which is always going to help. I've let quite a few go before now as I didn't feel upto the shot but I keep nailing long range targets so definitely getting used to it now. Mostly daytime shooting at the moment. The one permission is awesome for daytime foxes as previous shooter was useless and lamped and missed most foxes so educated them lol 2 Quote Link to post
ianm 2,594 Posted January 4, 2015 Report Share Posted January 4, 2015 They will actually start to mate in november. Quote Link to post
shropshire dan 467 Posted January 4, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2015 Fair play. Just read up on fox life cycle and it says January is the peak of the mating season. Quote Link to post
slipper 116 Posted January 4, 2015 Report Share Posted January 4, 2015 Well done dan, there was two or three barking last night driving the dogs mad managed to drop a dog fox before it got to foggy, nice when you get results from short sessions Quote Link to post
shropshire dan 467 Posted January 4, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2015 Cheers Chris. Got their at 9.15 AM and had those 2 by 9.40 Am. Packed up at 12 after a couple myxi rabbits. Looking at ordering the new nite site eagle in a few weeks Quote Link to post
CHEVINFOX 3,537 Posted January 4, 2015 Report Share Posted January 4, 2015 Nice shooting, shot a vixen last December which was in cub and well on Quote Link to post
shropshire dan 467 Posted January 4, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2015 Cheers mate. Couldn't be happier with the results Quote Link to post
Bigad 136 Posted January 4, 2015 Report Share Posted January 4, 2015 Nice shooting bud Quote Link to post
shropshire dan 467 Posted January 4, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2015 Cheers bigad. Can't wait to get the nite site eagle and electronic call now should bag a few more haha. Quote Link to post
Bigad 136 Posted January 4, 2015 Report Share Posted January 4, 2015 Yes you will do night vision is a game changer Quote Link to post
shropshire dan 467 Posted January 4, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2015 Can't wait. It'll take some getting used to I should imagine. Quote Link to post
Bigad 136 Posted January 4, 2015 Report Share Posted January 4, 2015 One you get used to the head up shooting you will be laughing. If wind in you favor and your quiet they don't know your there giving you more time to line up the perfect shot Quote Link to post
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