Blr243 wrote:Someone , fill me in. I have forgotten. Are we not approaching that time of year soon some young inexperienced pups are going to. Be out. On their own an easy targets.?
NTSOG wrote:Blr243: " I have forgotten. Are we not approaching that time of year soon some young inexperienced pups are going to. Be out. On their own an easy targets.?"
Jim
Die Judicii wrote:Congrats on the little vixen Mate,,,,
What is it with foxes running even after being well clobbered ?
The last two I've shot, have done that too.
Even though hit hard and well placed,,,, I haven't had this issue before.
They seem to be getting tougher.
NTSOG wrote:Finally - a fox!
I went out looking for hares last evening and sat near one of my fox bait stations on the north end of a long dam wall, but only saw one hare scarpering into a far paddock that's locked up for hay. I knew I'd never find it in the long grass so, as it was very cold - 3C last night - I packed up and headed back to the house. Just as I reached the south end of the dam wall several plover started screeching back where I had been sitting so I looked back through the NV scope and spotted the vixen going to the bait of dog food and offal from a couple of hares I shot two days ago. I was able to sneak back and take a shot from about 75 yards, hitting her in the left chest just behind her foreleg with a Hornady V max, 30 gr. She ran 35 yards and dropped. The rifle is my new [1976] Anschutz 1515 .22WMR with a PARD NV008 and an extra VCSEL illuminator [Black Sun Dark Engine] I bought from the UK. Using the add-on light saves battery power in the NV scope. [The red 'device' is a snap-on lens cover made for the PARD which does not come with a lens cover.]
Jim
Skinna wrote:...or kill & skin em in the one action with a 22-250...the sound of a 50gr vmax at 3600 fps to the skull of a fox is a sweet note sure to penetrate even the best of hearing protection...
NTSOG wrote:G'day All,
No photos as I would have had to scramble down a very steep and rocky cliff face in the dark to reach the blighters - I was sitting 60+ feet above the creek flat - and I'm not prepared to risk a fall since I have a titanium right hip.
There's another pair coming to one of my bait stations, but they're arriving at 1:00 AM and that's too late [or early?] for me.
Jim