Back up at the shoot

[Stavross 15,444]

7 minutes ago, ianm said:

To be honest i have written two or three and for some reason the site wouldn't let me post them. I just got a message come up on screen saying error found. I tried to post directly from my documents and even tried doing it piece meal with little success. So it has put me off compiling an account of foxing trips just to have it sat in my document folder.

I had that a couple of times over the last couple of weeks, it seems to of sorted itself out now 

[Stavross 15,444]

Feeding this morning and they are doing what they always do this time of year and that’s wander off first thing, they head for thick cover and if it’s a clear day they walk the field edges. What I need now is some murky dark days and some proper cold weather to keep them around the pens and the farm

 

back to the sheep farm tonight for another go, went last night, seen 4 and never got a shot a any of them, they are liking the vixen in heat call now

[FOXHUNTER 5,021]

Out this morning with Bert in search of the wily old pheasant,  a truly wild bird unlike its dopey released cousins. These birds are unreal spotting you from hundreds of yards away and off in a crack. Not much about this morning but managed my first woodcock of the season which Bert  flushed from a hedgerow Then he stopped by a bramble patch , stood on his back legs and scented the air , I knew this meant a pheasant so urged him on and in he went and flushed a cracking cock bird

[Sausagedog 7,381]

Good old Bert

[Sausagedog 7,381]

Get them fox's Stav

[Stavross 15,444]

56 minutes ago, FOXHUNTER said:

Out this morning with Bert in search of the wily old pheasant,  a truly wild bird unlike its dopey released cousins. These birds are unreal spotting you from hundreds of yards away and off in a crack. Not much about this morning but managed my first woodcock of the season which Bert  flushed from a hedgerow Then he stopped by a bramble patch , stood on his back legs and scented the air , I knew this meant a pheasant so urged him on and in he went and flushed a cracking cock bird

You getting many woodcock up your way, we have a few natives up at the shoot but I haven’t noticed any good numbers yet

 

28 minutes ago, Sausagedog said:

Get them fox's Stav

I’ll do my best, it’s not very often you see that amount in a night around here, I’d be over the moon if I managed 2 in a night

[FOXHUNTER 5,021]

40 minutes ago, Stavross said:

You getting many woodcock up your way

No mate , it's the only 1 I saw.  They usually come in with the November moon . Good luck tonight think I will have a look myself.

[Stavross 15,444]

6 minutes ago, FOXHUNTER said:

No mate , it's the only 1 I saw.  They usually come in with the November moon . Good luck tonight think I will have a look myself.

It’s normally now to the end of November when they arrive at the shoot, I don’t like them shooting them before the end of December ( I have no reason for this ) and most of the guns won’t shoot at them at all, have you ever eaten one?

[Stavross 15,444]

The old girl at the shoot gave me 3/4kg of brambles earlier and said they would do me for a bramble and apple pie, she doesn’t know me very well, second batch of bramble gin on the go 

Edited November 13, 2021 by Stavross

[Stavross 15,444]

Sometimes I feel like giving up, seen 4 gingers at the farm last night, spent 3 1/2 hours there tonight, tried a load of calls, nothing, I know the weather wasn’t ideal, very still, warm and a bright moon, but I thought I’d of at least seen one, I almost feel like packing it in and taking up golf

[BenBhoy 4,706]

50 minutes ago, Stavross said:

Sometimes I feel like giving up, seen 4 gingers at the farm last night, spent 3 1/2 hours there tonight, tried a load of calls, nothing, I know the weather wasn’t ideal, very still, warm and a bright moon, but I thought I’d of at least seen one, I almost feel like packing it in and taking up golf

Snap mate. Just got in now. Seen badgers, roe, hares, rabbits & sleepy tucked up partridge - but not a single ginger! Still, better than stopping in AND definitely better than golf!! 

[Dervburner 2,549]

15 hours ago, Stavross said:

It’s normally now to the end of November when they arrive at the shoot, I don’t like them shooting them before the end of December ( I have no reason for this ) and most of the guns won’t shoot at them at all, have you ever eaten one?

They taste quite strong, darkish meat, very gamey.

[David.evans 5,323]

Respect Ben 

nice new photo very appreciated 

atb

[FOXHUNTER 5,021]

12 hours ago, Stavross said:

Sometimes I feel like giving up, seen 4 gingers at the farm last night, spent 3 1/2 hours there tonight, tried a load of calls, nothing, I know the weather wasn’t ideal, very still, warm and a bright moon, but I thought I’d of at least seen one, I almost feel like packing it in and taking up golf

Well I had a look out too last night and called in this nice vixen after 12 mins , hare call came in great and stopped 20 yds off the caller. Only 1 I saw but a better specimen that the one Mr Sausage got .

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Nice job mate, that looks a tidy bitch