Foxy Spots

[stop.end 4,079]

Just keeping checking on the spots you've had the most successful rewards and hope you have plenty of places to check...you will be hitting pairs in ground now though no matter the weather... That's only if there there in the first place though.

[Rabbit Hunter 6,613]

Walking local and trying for a couple of foxes is a thing of the past I think. Too many ramblers out and about all with mobiles thinking anyone with terriers is up to no good, foxes been slaughtered by thermal cutting their numbers at least in half amongst other things. I see more foxes walking my terriers after work on the streets at night than I do out and about in the country.

[dillydog 8,462]

3 hours ago, Rabbit Hunter said:

Walking local and trying for a couple of foxes is a thing of the past I think. Too many ramblers out and about all with mobiles thinking anyone with terriers is up to no good, foxes been slaughtered by thermal cutting their numbers at least in half amongst other things. I see more foxes walking my terriers after work on the streets at night than I do out and about in the country.

You know how to age and ruin a man

[Rabbit Hunter 6,613]

4 hours ago, dillydog said:

You know how to age and ruin a man

True though mate I’ve seen a massive change since I started, so it must be totally different to when you were ratching about as a youngster.

[TonyT 1,425]

42 minutes ago, Rabbit Hunter said:

True though mate I’ve seen a massive change since I started, so it must be totally different to when you were ratching about as a youngster.

He’s not that old

Or  is it me that’s old

times have changed unfortunately 

ATB  T

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

Things change mate .Was a time I could dig all day to fox .Nowadays despite there being plenty about still I’m lucky to drop on two a season .I shoot  too which is how I know the numbers are there .Shooting is the only way to control the fox properly second only to snaring .Fox control with terriers was ,is only a token gesture .Necessary tool but dosnt dent a population in the least unless digging cubs .

I thought that the badger cull would of freed up a lot of earths but they still ain’t to ground even in the worst of weathers .

[dillydog 8,462]

24 minutes ago, foxdropper said:

Things change mate .Was a time I could dig all day to fox .Nowadays despite there being plenty about still I’m lucky to drop on two a season .I shoot  too which is how I know the numbers are there .Shooting is the only way to control the fox properly second only to snaring .Fox control with terriers was ,is only a token gesture .Necessary tool but dosnt dent a population in the least unless digging cubs .

I thought that the badger cull would of freed up a lot of earths but they still ain’t to ground even in the worst of weathers .

The culls f×cred the terrier game right through our country,  you're right about the empty places though,  back to the old days where you could drop a dog knowing the humbugs weren't home. 

The thermal boys have ruined a once great sport, no way you can even hope to compete.  The antis have no idea what they've done banning hunting,  no fox preservation at all, treated no better than a  

[downsouth 7,212]

On 01/01/2023 at 11:00, dillydog said:

They can be warm and wet, cold and dry but not wet and cold, saying that I used to dig or bolt upto 70 a year (not season), I wouldn't touch that now. Whether that's through just getting old and lazy or just seeing the danger in being where I'm not wanted or needed or just the damage the rifle does is all up for debate.

The way I used to look at it was I'd treat my area like spokes in a wheel, hit every earth in one area before changing areas the next day, sooner or later I'd cut down the possibilities because I'd been to enough or I'd left the stink of dogs on enough places, cutting down their chances.  That's how I USED to think, two things changed that. The first was I sent a mate the day after snowfall to check some pipes I'd checked the day before (sneaky b*****d I know) while I checked fresh places a mile up the road. I had a fox that morning and was chuffed with myself and my little plan until I bumped into the mate who'd had four from the place I'd sent him !

Secondly I've been a pro and amateur terrier man for a few packs of hounds and once you see the utter shit the fox will happily sit out in you'll lose all faith in weather watching. 

Maybe they were in there the day before and them old dogs of yours just didnt find em

[sionnach99 1,258]

I went out for couple hours last week checked maybe 8/9 fox earths bolted one , he popped out a hole covered in ivy I thought I’d all covered. Then went on checked another in a different area and hit on a pair. I think if you hit areas with very little cover or spots for foxes to lie up in on a miserable day you have a better chance of meeting them in ground. A lot of big woodland and scrub round me and you never hit foxes in ground because there spoiled for choice the worst day that comes they will still be warm and dry don’t need a hole. But if you hit sheep hills where there nothing only stone walls and u know there’s foxes in numbers in the area I reckon it common sense that foxes will use holes a little more often in these areas than areas with cover everywhere just my opinion maybe I’m wrong . 

[Moocher71 4,049]

On 03/01/2023 at 19:42, dillydog said:

The culls f×cred the terrier game right through our country,  you're right about the empty places though,  back to the old days where you could drop a dog knowing the humbugs weren't home. 

The thermal boys have ruined a once great sport, no way you can even hope to compete.  The antis have no idea what they've done banning hunting,  no fox preservation at all, treated no better than a  

Like you say the ban as done nothing for the fox ,

[Moocher71 4,049]

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