Smoke pole fox

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Smoke pole fox

Post by bigpete » 14 Jan 2018, 1:16 pm

Well,I made a bit of a resolution this year to hunt more with my muzzleloaders. So this morning I went out with a mate who bow hunts with my hawken to see if we could call in a fox.
My first attempt at one was a failure. We arrived at the edge of a steep drop off leading to a river flat and one was contouring the base of the drop off at 50m. Click back to full cock,set the trigger,draw a bead,pop ! Fail to fire ! Damn,should've cleaned the nipple back at the car !
Had a bit of a calling session there just in case but nothing came. So we moved to a position a couple of hundred metres away.
I sat at the base of a gum tree with my mate about 10m to my right in the shade of another tree. My position wasn't great as I had the morning sun shining right on my face but I figured on letting my mate shoot anyway.
After working the scotch call for about 5 minutes I glanced over at my mate. He was frantically pointing at something off to my left. I had a look and could just see the head off a fox through the grass 50m away,heading toward me. I looked at my mate again and he indicated I should shoot,good idea considering to get a shot himself would've meant shooting in my direction. Carefully I shouldered my hawken as the fox cautiously approached. I gave a few lip squeaks till it gave me a clear shot at 25m. BOOM !!!!!! A thick cloud of smoke erupted from my hawken and obscured the fox. I let it clear and thought damn I dropped it clean !
No such luck ! The ball hit slightly left,took a bit out of the side of its face,entered just behind its ribs,and exited the tail. I reloaded as fast as I could ( for some reason I ended up with a stuck ball and had to ram the ram rod against a tree to seat it !), walked up to the wounded fox and gave it another ball to the side of the head. Tough little bugger.
So I'd guess my year has started off well !
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Post by tom604 » 14 Jan 2018, 1:24 pm

well done :thumbsup: and im glad your showing the clean side :lol: :thumbsup:
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Post by Mongrel » 14 Jan 2018, 1:29 pm

Well done Pete and great write up :)
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Post by RoginaJack » 14 Jan 2018, 3:04 pm

tom604 wrote:well done :thumbsup: and im glad your showing the clean side :lol: :thumbsup:


yep, great comment and nicely shot, Sir.
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Post by Oldbloke » 14 Jan 2018, 3:43 pm

Well done BP. Another Red Coat bites the dust. And a few thousand native Fauna live on.
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Post by Bent Arrow » 14 Jan 2018, 4:13 pm

Nice one Pete
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Post by Daddybang » 14 Jan 2018, 4:47 pm

Nice work BP !!! :drinks:
Damn I wish we had foxes up here!! :lol: :drinks:
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Post by Oldbloke » 14 Jan 2018, 5:06 pm

Daddybang wrote:Nice work BP !!! :drinks:
Damn I wish we had foxes up here!! :lol: :drinks:


You already have enough problems with dogs!
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Post by Daddybang » 14 Jan 2018, 5:44 pm

Oldbloke wrote:
Daddybang wrote:Nice work BP !!! :drinks:
Damn I wish we had foxes up here!! :lol: :drinks:


You already have enough problems with dogs!


Well yeah but look at the smile on the big fellas face!! :lol: :lol: :drinks: :drinks:
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Post by Archie » 14 Jan 2018, 7:59 pm

When I read the title I was thinking, please don't tell me someones's done a "paddock to plate" on how to smoke a fox... Nice one.
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Post by RoginaJack » 14 Jan 2018, 8:50 pm

Like me to send a few up your way? Seta few traps (blind set/trail) for dogs and caught 4 reds over a couple of nights. :D
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Post by Stix » 14 Jan 2018, 9:03 pm

Good story mate...
Certainly not my choice of "pole" for hunting, but im really glad you got to finish the fox...!!! :thumbsup:
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Post by Daddybang » 14 Jan 2018, 9:03 pm

RoginaJack wrote:Like me to send a few up your way? Seta few traps (blind set/trail) for dogs and caught 4 reds over a couple of nights. :D


That'd be right! :lol:
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Post by RoginaJack » 14 Jan 2018, 9:07 pm

Yeah, ain't it always the way and nice looking reds too, been feeding on the farm chooks. The 2 dogs eventually made a couple of bad decisions too. :lol:

love it when a plan comes together. :D
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Post by duncan61 » 14 Jan 2018, 10:55 pm

I know the thrill.When I was at the Dairy farm years ago I ordered a H&R single shot in 22 Hornet to dispatch downed cows with and when I picked it up I zeroed it out the back paddock then on the way back on the quad bike a fox ran past and started bounding through a culvert so I could see it for a second then it went out of sight again so I counted it down and let one go and got it in the bum.Fluke shot but it was not dead so I went to finish it off and the case was stuck so I found a bit of fence wire and popped it out.When I reloaded it was gone but I found it and finished it off.Foxes chew the teats off our cows when they are in labour so we have no love of them and I regularly went out and popped a few.The 17HMR with a scope was better than the open sight Hornet
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Post by Lumbajak » 15 Jan 2018, 1:47 pm

Well done Pete! Particularly with the ol blunderbuss!!
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Post by Lumbajak » 15 Jan 2018, 1:48 pm

Well done Pete! Particularly with the ol blunderbuss!!
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