Gwion wrote:Shooting clays and shooting a rifle straight isn't exactly the same thing.
Yeah but he wants to shoot foxes - I personally can't recommend a 22lr for that job, ok for bunnies and that's about it, If it was me I'd wait until I got the Cat B and buy the 223 or similar cal for foxes - way better option than any of the others he's thinking about.
It doesn't take much practice to learn how to shoot half decent (good enough to hunt) sure if you wanted to punch paper successfully then you would need to practice a fair bit to get it down pat but for hunting you don't need to have every bullet in the same hole, you just need to be able to shoot well enough to hit say something the size of an orange which isn't too hard to do with good consistency.
I taught my daughters to shoot pretty good in an arvo using this little method. I teach them to shoot for the head every time, that way it ensures a quick clean kill, they've both shot quite a few bunnies now and most are one shot kills which is pleasing to see.