Well I went out again today to another property to have a little look around to see what the foxes were doing there. The weather was a bit ordinary today (despite the glowing reports on the weatherzone site) it was as cold as a witches titty, wind was blowing its head off (was ok when I left home)
but I figured I'm here I might as well stick my head into the wind and see if I can get any red dogs to come out.
The first couple of stands saw no foxes at all, I then moved around to another spot that has a heap of blackberrie bushes, I walked about 5 steps from the BT, sat down and started whistling with the homemade Tenterfield, I went for around 10mins and nothing showed, so I just sat there for a bit admiring the views, next thing you know a little ol Vixen wondered into view :boogie: I moved and it stopped and looked my way, I stayed still and waited for it to start wondering off again, I then closed the bolt, took aim and whilst it was having a pee I nailed it right in the ear!
I picked her up and had a look at the damage and FMD it was a tiny little hole, I turned it over and saw a massive hole in its back, so the bullet entered near the ear and travelled along its body only to blow out its spine area.
This is not the first time I've seen strange entry exit wounds using these 39's but either way the fox was down for the count and that's all that matters to me at the end of the day.
After the usual photo session I drove about 300m up along the same patch of blackberries, stopped the BT and got out and got into position next to a small clump of blackberries, this time I used the Scotch Predator Caller as the Whistle had blood on it from the previous fox and I wasn't putting that in my mouth again until it was properly cleaned!
Anyway I was giving the Scotch Predator caller a good ol go for about 5mins when I spotted another fox come from behind some blackberries, I lined up the X hairs on its Diamond, squeezed the trigger and down it when, bang on target and this one exited the back of its neck area. I had a quick scan of the blackberries and spotted the rear leg of another one disappearing behind another clump of blackberries, I kept calling for a few more mins but couldn't entice it to come out.
Anyway another round of photos and I was off again in the BT, I tried a few more spots but nothing showed interest, I made a return call to Missed (forum member) after that I had a bit of a look around for some bunnies but none were seen, I called again from the BT with the Scotch Predator Caller and next thing you know a fox pops it's head up over the hill, takes one look at me and fooks off!
bloody little bugger.
I decided to go over to another part of the property that has good blackberry patches, had a whistle etc but nothing else showed up so though I'd fire a few rounds at a knot in a tree which was 220m away just off the bipod sitting on the ground and all 4 were within a 1-1.5" group so was happy with that.
Anyway here's some pics