Not really the weather for it.

[Sausagedog 7,381]

Lousy forecast for here tomorrow....maybe saturday.

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

2 minutes ago, FOXHUNTER said:

Soft Southern foxes mate , Northern foxes much tougher I remember years ago my mate was shooting 85 gr hollow points , 6 foxes in a row ran on anywhere up to 60 yds. I said can you not shoot them properly but on inspection every one was perfect behind the shoulder. I once shot a small vixen with 100 gr soft point and it just walked off with no reaction into some gorse , thought I had missed it but on checking was lying dead in the gorse.

Having seen you northern boys shoot I’m not surprised

[FOXHUNTER 5,021]

Just now, foxdropper said:

Having seen you northern boys shoot I’m not surprised

we shoot better than the southern boys.

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

Apparently not

[FOXHUNTER 5,021]

Just now, foxdropper said:

Apparently not

As said tougher foxes , not released southern softies

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

Fair comment .Few here all DOS .

[FOXHUNTER 5,021]

Just now, foxdropper said:

Fair comment .Few here all DOS .

Poor Cubs shot at the rescue centre

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

Did wonder on the night mate ,mental .

[FOXHUNTER 5,021]

Just now, foxdropper said:

Did wonder on the night mate ,mental .

Send some up here will you

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

Love to mate but I need 14 more for 150 before January .
Joint best ,two of us shooting that same farm years ago when I first started was 264 .Husbandry was appalling with previous manager and corpses of dead chicken  everywhere .

We got numbers down to around eighty a year then the badger cull and now numbers on the up again .I could shoot a fox on that farm every night of the year I’m sure of it .

[David.evans 5,323]

I think you two need to get a room lol 

atb 

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23 hours ago, walshie said:

I knew it was going to be a big moon last night, but checking the weather forecast it said it was going to be very cloudy, breezy and dry.

It was cloudy but still let quite a bit of moonshine through. It was so still it was almost eerie and raining. Well done BBC for being so shit at forecasting weather. 

Too late, we were there, so we persevered.

There wasn't much around but eventually Jack spotted a vixen through the thermal about 100 yards away. Maybe a little further. He lit it up, I took the shot and it went down, but then got up running in circles, despite the heart/lung shot. I put another in it, but instead  of being lights out, it sat up staring at us, requiring another. I had similar to this December time last year. Ii wonder if in the mating season they are so pumped up on hormones they become robofoxes?

Shortly after that, my lightforce blew either a bulb or the wiring - I'll have to check later, so we were stuck with the cordless lamp with much less range, but at least we didn't have to go home.

About an hour later I spotted a fox lying under a bush out of the rain. Maneuvering with the stealth of Apache Indians, we got into a position about 60 yards out where the lamp could light it up for the shot.  

I lit it up and Jack took aim. In the silence it felt like ages but to be fair he could only see the head and shoulders and it was laying flat on the ground in a dim red glow. It was in no rush to get wet, so stayed where it was until eventually Jack pulled the trigger. It cartwheeled over on the spot and it was lights out. 

He was a really good condition chubby dog fox.

As we haven't been to this place for a couple of months I was expecting a bumper haul, but we didn't see any more and called it a night after another hour or so.

Still beats Eastenders though. 

Nice write up

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

5 hours ago, David.evans said:

I think you two need to get a room lol 

atb 

We know each other mate ,just bit of banter

[David.evans 5,323]

I know that lads

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

Well last night was a nightmare .I’m putting it down to being tired but missed two foxes that should of been brown bread .First admittedly was on the move walking towards me ,very close before I saw it in thermal .Second fox was the luckiest fox alive I’m telling ya .I found a fresh chicken kill out in the run area .I probably disturbed the fox as I drove in ,much like the other night same shed .

I decided on a wait and eventually true to form in comes a cautious fox .The fence on this shed was cracking a good un  in the moisture filled atmosphere .He avoided that corner and went round the shed unsighted for several minutes to appear at the far left corner but behind  the electric netting .I could see it plainly in the pard but as the netting was doubled at this point I decided against threading a bullet through .It wandered up the netting at a fast pace from there with me struggling to get on it with quad sticks fouling in the long grass beneath me .

Behind the run there is the remains of a strip of sunflowers ,enhancement for the chickens and the fox spotted something in there unseen by the thermal .A squeal and it was off running the other side the strip ,last I saw  of it was about two hundred yards when it stopped very briefly on the ploughed ground to get a better grip on whatever it had caught ,probably a rabbit by the squeal .Pulled the trigger as it stopped but missed to the right with me cussing the long grass .Only serves to make the successes sweeter though .