- A hungry, careless fox.
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- Both illuminators on
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- Single illuminator on scope turned on - note tiny disc of light.
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G'day all,
I'm new to foxing and have only shot a couple including the dog in the coloured picture. I had spotted him with my trail camera making regular trips up an unmade Crown Road on my southern boundary. I fed him cheap tinned dog food for a couple of weeks to get him well into my paddock and where I could legally and safely - there is a house 300 yards to the SW - shoot him. He's been coming to the right spot for a few days now, but his routine was somewhat irregular and he could come at 7:30 or 11:30 so it was only last night I could take a shot at 73 yards at about 7:00 PM - actually I didn't expect him that early. Rifle used was an Anschuetz 1532 [double triggers] in .222 Rem. with a Photon XT 6.5x50L sight with a Pulsar X850 IR torch attached.
There's an interesting part of this story: one night at about 8:15 I went out to sit on another bait station [actually the head of a steer we just killed for the freezer] in another paddock, only to find this blighter had come early, but was not yet near where I needed him to be for a safe shot. Instead of taking the risk of disturbing him I set up at the gate to the paddock sitting on a low plastic seat and watched him through the night scope while practising sighting and dry firing with a snap cap in the rifle. As I watched him I saw the IR flash of the trail camera go off a number of times as he walked in front of the camera. In the end he walked off without offering me a safe shot and I quit for the night. When I looked at the pictures taken by the trail camera I realised it had recorded the IR illumination of the inbuilt light on the scope - it's the little circle of light - as well as the glaring light of the Pulsar IR torch. I was trying out sighting with the inbuilt illuminator as well as the add-on one.
I understand that some shooters believe foxes cannot see IR light and some believe they can. I'm in no position to judge, but my fox clearly did not give a damn about the IR light.
Jim