FuzzyM wrote:Have been meaning to get out my grandfather's fox whistle.
My mate got 2 .22's into a fox while we were spotlighting, the bugger left a fair bit of blood on the ground and somehow got away into thick scrub.
I actually got my gun license because I was sick of the ridiculous amounts of foxes around my family farm.
They used to actually run around the paddocks in broad daylight.
Haven't got one yet .
Doesn't help that mum has stupid expensive horses everywhere.
Otherwise the .223 would come out and a lot more pests would go splat.
Went away for a weekend last winter to a state forest a couple of hours away, walked around all day, missed a shot on a rabbit, went to collect firewood with the boys later in the day and a bloody fox trotted across the road and up the hill I had been hunting on.
valkyrie wrote:Was out hunting one night and stopped for a piss break. Mate of mine let rip the biggest loudest fart I had ever heard in my life and when we finally got the light back on about 5 minutes later, I s**t you not there was one sitting about 50m in front of the ute. May have been a coincidence butbut I likelike to think the little bastard just had to see what the hell made that ungodly noise
bigfellascott wrote:Ah well - better luck next time mate. I never use safeties myself, I just load and shoot as I need too.
Oldbloke wrote:bigfellascott wrote:Ah well - better luck next time mate. I never use safeties myself, I just load and shoot as I need too.
I find that a bit noisy myself.
Oldbloke wrote:bigfellascott wrote:Ah well - better luck next time mate. I never use safeties myself, I just load and shoot as I need too.
I find that a bit noisy myself.
on_one_wheel wrote:Oldbloke wrote:bigfellascott wrote:Ah well - better luck next time mate. I never use safeties myself, I just load and shoot as I need too.
I find that a bit noisy myself.
I'll second that on the noisy issue, from time to time I get a fox right in and realize that I'm not loaded, it's hard to hide the noise of a bolt cycling with a whistle... even the sound of the safety being switched can alarm a fox. My Remington 700 safety is the loudest of the lot, if I switch it carelessly the noise resonates through the stock.
I find for me the most stealth way is to have one in the chamber and the bolt handle up when calling in a fox.
bigfellascott wrote:I like the scotch predator caller, called in quite a few now with mine, only thing I suggest is getting a cork for it (doesn't take much to make a noise from it if walking around with it (a cork and a piece of string to attach it to the caller works well)
I've called in Crows, cats, foxes, rabbits, roos with it so far, not to mention a few other species of birds too. Oh cattle love it too along with the Tenterfield Whistle