Back up at the shoot

[Stavross 15,948]

Well I’m calling it a night because I’m losing the light and I’ve got an early start in the morning, I’ve seen 2, first one, I had the caller in the silage field and I was stud at the top gate expecting anything to come up the cut grass, so with the caller out I thought I’d give it 20 minutes or so, next thing, there’s a ragged looking fox the other side of the gate and it had walked up the barley instead of the grass, seen me and trotted back into the long grass on the track, I then moved to another spot, put the caller out on chicken distress, within 2 minutes a fox was in the bottom of the field I’d just been at the top of, by the way it was mousing and jumping about I’m sure it was a cub, it showed no interest in the caller and headed along the hedge and up towards the top of the field, in the direction of where I’d just come from , at least I know that there’s a couple about and I know where to sit up now, speaking to my mate, he said they will be starting to cut barley by the end of the week, so there will be more to go at

[FOXHUNTER 5,021]

Had a look out on some laid barley this afternoon for some woodies. Plenty flying about but they have loads of fields of barley to pick from .

There was only one laid patch I can get set up on which is not ideal until hopefully they are cut this week and I can get on the stubbles. 

The birds that did decoy came in lovely but many more were just flitting about all over with no pattern. 

Managed 54

[BenBhoy 4,706]

Our neighbour cut barley today. I'm carting the bales off tomorrow then shoot it tomorrow night 

[FOXHUNTER 5,021]

Just had an hours calling on some fresh cut grass fields ......saw nothing except a few rabbits and hares and this fella

 

[BenBhoy 4,706]

One young vixen tonight, but only just. Spotted her sneaking under gateway into field I was in, at 150yds. Let her move down  hedgerow a little but was moving away from me, so next time she stopped i squeezed trigger. Bloody miss to the right/behind her, saw the dust kick up..she took off but only another 25yd & stopped wondering wtf. Lined up crosshairs, gently squeeze, hit........ but then she's back up dragging down field . Wait for stop & finally this time it drops her. On inspection, first hit was far back on guts. Dunno what's going on, but I packed in there until I can check zero, not happy wounding like that. 

First time I've used pard 007 on the 204, not exactly filled me with confidence.

 

Edited July 12, 2022 by BenBhoy

[FOXHUNTER 5,021]

Pulled up in the street and there was another 2 hedgehogs having a face off 

[FOXHUNTER 5,021]

12 hours ago, BenBhoy said:

One young vixen tonight, but only just. Spotted her sneaking under gateway into field I was in, at 150yds. Let her move down  hedgerow a little but was moving away from me, so next time she stopped i squeezed trigger. Bloody miss to the right/behind her, saw the dust kick up..she took off but only another 25yd & stopped wondering wtf. Lined up crosshairs, gently squeeze, hit........ but then she's back up dragging down field . Wait for stop & finally this time it drops her. On inspection, first hit was far back on guts. Dunno what's going on, but I packed in there until I can check zero, not happy wounding like that. 

First time I've used pard 007 on the 204, not exactly filled me with confidence.

 

Were you in Australia

[FOXHUNTER 5,021]

Well Mr Stavross I had a family day out today down your neck of the woods , the wife and daughter loved it ,very nice place with nice people

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

How much were you charged for the munties Stav if you don’t mind me asking .Pm if you want .

[Stavross 15,948]

12 hours ago, FOXHUNTER said:

Well Mr Stavross I had a family day out today down your neck of the woods , the wife and daughter loved it ,very nice place with nice people

Of coarse it’s full of nice people, they are all like me

It’s a nice place Yarm, it’s got some nice little shops and some good places to eat, did you have a look in Lucy Pittaway, her art work is lovely, if I had a spare 6 grand kicking about I’d have one of her paintings 

[FOXHUNTER 5,021]

4 hours ago, Stavross said:

Of coarse it’s full of nice people, they are all like me

It’s a nice place Yarm, it’s got some nice little shops and some good places to eat, did you have a look in Lucy Pittaway, her art work is lovely, if I had a spare 6 grand kicking about I’d have one of her paintings 

It was a refreshing change to be somewhere where all the people spoke well and random strangers would speak to you.No sign of council estate chavas

The wife wants to move there but we need to win the lottery first

[Stavross 15,948]

When we moved about 5 years ago, we looked at a few houses there but couldn’t justify the price, there’s houses that are basically the same as where I live now and they are 70-80 grand more because of the postcode,

[Stavross 15,948]

I had a call from my mate earlier asking if I’d shoot a few game cover munchers, he then told me that he’d just cut a big field of feed barley so I thought sod it im taking the .243, when I got there he had cut most of the field only not the 30 odd meters down to the stream at the bottom of the field, where I wanted to be for a call, he always does this to me, I did see 2 cubs over the other side of the stream in the long grass, on next doors land but it wasn’t worth risking a shot as I had no way of recovering them. As I checked the other strip of cover towards the wood I seen a deer in the wheat, probably a bit over 200 yards from me, looking at it through the scope I could see it was a very nice buck, probably the nicest looking beast I’ve seen on there, it looked to have a lovely 6 point set, I changed the round from a BT to a 90gr SP as it stood there side on giving me a choice of shots, after thinking a bit longer I decided not to take the shot as I thought with the heat there’s a good chance by the time I got the carcass to longshanx the meat could be knackered, so I’ll definitely be back for him, maybe in a week or so as my mate said the wheat is about to come off

[BenBhoy 4,706]

14 minutes ago, Stavross said:

after thinking a bit longer I decided not to take the shot as I thought with the heat there’s a good chance by the time I got the carcass to longshanx the meat could be knackered

I like that. I think too many folk are too quick to take shot just because they're there & they can. 

[FOXHUNTER 5,021]

Announcement.....I'm giving up foxing as it's too stressful

Received a call from farmer yesterday that a fox is hanging  around the hen hut and stealing sweetcorn put out for the hens.

So rang my mate to come through with  his C50 and see what he could do as I didnt want to shoot after that miss the other night as haven't checked scope. 

Anyway saw 2 foxes but no shot on for either so moved to another field and called one in immediately to 70yds and my mate duly missed it ....I felt like crying

This is the same farm where Stav missed one so these foxes are living a charmed life. 

They are taking chickens and I need to get them but they are proving very tricky.

I've never had such tricky foxes to sort out I'm pulling my hair out...