Back up at the shoot

[BenBhoy 4,706]

10 minutes ago, Dervburner said:

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[BenBhoy 4,706]

Got up to cut silage last night about 9, still like midday mind!  Check all my kit before leaving, all good. Still though, had a niggling feeling forgot something, thought not put battery in pard but quick double check and all good.

As I come over crest of hill into cut field see a browny red shape mooching along hedge about 600yds..... bloody muntjac! 

Get set up on sticks & after everything settles I start calling. Get the XM30s out for a scan...... battery dead!!! NO!!! I I'd put it on charge but after getting home discovered I hadn't turned switch on at wall, schoolboy.

So now I'm scanning with the pard008. Saw one about 300yds away but no safe shot, stalking along edge of footpath. Gave a couple of calls but not interested. 

40 odd minutes later (still kicking myself about battery!) I spot another pard008 lrf clocks it as 389yds. Again no safe shot (not my favourite field this, very flat) but I just follow as it making steady progress crossing from my right to left. Eventually I know its safe to shoot where it is now, so just keep tracking waiting for it to stop. And she soon obliged. One empty vixen @ 178yds. 

I fuckeď off home soon after, still raging about the thermal! 

[BenBhoy 4,706]

[Stavross 15,251]

Good result, you may of forgot something but you made the best of it and got the result you were after

[FOXHUNTER 5,021]

Just goes to show ,thermal not required

[shovel leaner 7,650]

I was always forgetting something, either on shoot days or going out fox shooting. So now I’ve got a laminated check list . Sounds a bit nerdy but it saves a lot of heartache and missed opportunities , and so far I haven’t forgotten anything. 

[FOXHUNTER 5,021]

3 minutes ago, shovel leaner said:

I was always forgetting something, either on shoot days or going out fox shooting. So now I’ve got a laminated check list . Sounds a bit nerdy but it saves a lot of heartache and missed opportunities , and so far I haven’t forgotten anything. 

I don't  have a laminated sheet but have a mental checklist I run through. Rifle   bullets ,knife , camera , sticks , phone ,bins , caller depending on what I'm doing

[BenBhoy 4,706]

53 minutes ago, FOXHUNTER said:

Just goes to show ,thermal not required

Opposite mate! Was so pisséd off at myself all night, really missed it 

[FOXHUNTER 5,021]

34 minutes ago, BenBhoy said:

Opposite mate! Was so pisséd off at myself all night, really missed it 

Missed it but dont need it

[David.evans 5,323]

And a good shot to looking at the shot placement

[BenBhoy 4,706]

38 minutes ago, David.evans said:

And a good shot to looking at the shot placement

Cheers David. Aye she dropped on spot & sounded soupy inside when I moved her! 32gn federal vital shok nosler 

[BenBhoy 4,706]

1 hour ago, FOXHUNTER said:

Missed it but dont need it

Might have spotted more with it!

[FOXHUNTER 5,021]

27 minutes ago, BenBhoy said:

Might have spotted more with it!

Possibly,  possibly not

[ianm 2,594]

On 07/06/2021 at 18:32, Stavross said:

.17hmr fodder on a warm evening

 

So long as there is zero wind.

On 07/06/2021 at 20:40, FOXHUNTER said:

Dont  think it is legal to shoot corvids on cut silage under the new GL as it's not crop protection, foodstuffs or livestock attack.

I am sure you can shoot them on silage because you know the same crows will shortly be on crop xyz. 

[ianm 2,594]

9 hours ago, BenBhoy said:

Well done sonny, looks like you are progressing leaps and bounds from the days when you had to sneak up on foxes having forty winks in a field and shooting them in the swede with the mouse gun.