Jarvis 277 Posted January 23, 2019 Report Share Posted January 23, 2019 Had my first night out at last after waiting about 5 months to get the ground cleared where I live to control the fox numbers for my mate who rents the land to graze his sheep and he lost a lot of lambs last year. To say it’s crawling with foxes is an understatement! I pulled up and straight away there was a fox wandering up behind me. Boom after 2 minutes first fox down! Put rabbit distress on the caller and had two running in. the first was eighty yards, the second was 200, both dropped on the spot. Turned the caller off. Gave it 10 minutes and I saw another two in the distance. Turned the caller on again and had the forth one trotting in to the caller, bang down it went. It was a bloody cold night and my rifle started to freeze up so after 1 hr 20 minutes I had shot four and saw another seven!!! Ive got lots of work to do! 10 1 Quote Link to post
Stavross 15,601 Posted January 23, 2019 Report Share Posted January 23, 2019 Wow, that’s a lot of fox, looks like you have made a good start on them, nice work Quote Link to post
Longshanx 833 Posted January 24, 2019 Report Share Posted January 24, 2019 4 foxes in just over an hour some going Jarvis. Why can’t it be like that up our neck of the woods Quote Link to post
Jarvis 277 Posted January 24, 2019 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2019 On 24/01/2019 at 06:51, Longshanx said: 4 foxes in just over an hour some going Jarvis. Why can’t it be like that up our neck of the woods Expand That was only 3 fields as well, the one I was parked in and the two I could see into with the thermal! Lots more to cover yet!! I lI’ve seeing foxes about, its a great sight, (as long as they aren’t at the shoot I do where I want them all taken care of) but where I live the numbers that are here is crazy! They need getting on top of. Quote Link to post
Longshanx 833 Posted January 24, 2019 Report Share Posted January 24, 2019 I’ll be baiting my stables soon as he also has sheep and will be lambing March April. Not seen many about lately on a night. Always seems to hear about loads the further south you go, lucky gits Quote Link to post
Born Hunter 17,763 Posted January 24, 2019 Report Share Posted January 24, 2019 With that amount of foxes about I'd be organising a morning of fox drives. Couple walking guns with dogs and two or three standing. It can be a lot of fun on foxy land. But that's because lamping is a fecking chore in my mind. LOL 1 Quote Link to post
Jarvis 277 Posted January 24, 2019 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2019 On 24/01/2019 at 11:16, Born Hunter said: With that amount of foxes about I'd be organising a morning of fox drives. Couple walking guns with dogs and two or three standing. It can be a lot of fun on foxy land. But that's because lamping is a fecking chore in my mind. LOL Expand I love it out at night on the foxes, and doing it in the day is a no go as the land is completely surrounded by a forest which is open to the public so the last thing I want to be doing is having people blasting away in the day and get townie do gooders walking their dogs sticking their oar in thinking they know the law! 2 Quote Link to post
j j m 6,539 Posted January 24, 2019 Report Share Posted January 24, 2019 nice shooting bud Quote Link to post
The one 8,477 Posted January 24, 2019 Report Share Posted January 24, 2019 Nice going mate they all look like there big well fed foxes too 1 Quote Link to post
Jarvis 277 Posted January 25, 2019 Author Report Share Posted January 25, 2019 On 24/01/2019 at 21:10, The one said: Nice going mate they all look like there big well fed foxes too Expand They bloody are all big! Had these two last night up there. The top one is a vixen and it was much bigger built than the dog. 4 Quote Link to post
Rimfireboy! 1,463 Posted January 25, 2019 Report Share Posted January 25, 2019 Brilliant result so far Jarvis, well done fella. 1 Quote Link to post
Longshanx 833 Posted January 26, 2019 Report Share Posted January 26, 2019 Good going Jarvis they are definitely well fed down there, should make yourself a few quid by taking the tails, this time next year you’ll be a millionaire 1 Quote Link to post
Jarvis 277 Posted January 26, 2019 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2019 On 26/01/2019 at 07:19, Longshanx said: Good going Jarvis they are definitely well fed down there, should make yourself a few quid by taking the tails, this time next year you’ll be a millionaire Expand If it was like the old days and you got money for the skins the amount of foxes here I could quit the day job! 2 Quote Link to post
sussex 5,777 Posted January 26, 2019 Report Share Posted January 26, 2019 Three of us sitting in highseats waiting for deer , still early I had a pair in front of my seat and shot one , one of the other lads shot two walking to the seat and one just after getting up in it and the other lad never shot any ( he had deer in the next field ) but see 7 .The Shoot has had a year off so haven’t been on the job , we have not really bothered because we are more concerned in culling the deer ..There are loads about . 2 Quote Link to post
Jarvis 277 Posted January 27, 2019 Author Report Share Posted January 27, 2019 On 26/01/2019 at 15:16, sussex said: Three of us sitting in highseats waiting for deer , still early I had a pair in front of my seat and shot one , one of the other lads shot two walking to the seat and one just after getting up in it and the other lad never shot any ( he had deer in the next field ) but see 7 .The Shoot has had a year off so haven’t been on the job , we have not really bothered because we are more concerned in culling the deer ..There are loads about . Expand I’ve lost count the amount of times I go up to the shoot I keeper to look for a deer and plans soon change because I end up seeing a fox and the freezer ends up staying empty for another day! 2 Quote Link to post
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.