So on a new property over easter, i was heading off to do some familiarisation with the allotment, & figered ill be back before dark so wont need to hook up the light rig...
So heading over a hill after sunset to check out the last few paddocks, i see what looks to be a mallee root couple hundred yards down the bottom of the hill & its moving...thinking its due to not having cracked a can yet, i decide to confirm it with the rangefinder, & sure enough, by the time i got to it, it had become wedged back in the ground again...
- Close-up pic of waddling mallee root...
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Did a quick loop of the last 2 paddocks as it was too dark to see now so wanted to hurry back for a feed & get back out with the light.
As i drove back to within 80 yds of where the moving mallee root was, a bloody fox popped up & darted accross my path & through the fence...
It pulled up on the other side of the fence so i turned the car with the spotty pointing at it, to which it took off again, but pulled up to look back.
So i turned the car a little more slowly to get enough light to see its eyes...
Stuck the 204 in the 'V' of the door & windscreen pillar & took a punt on where its chest was based on the direction it was moving (my right to left).
After the crack, i heard the solid wollup of a hit & thought i saw its silhouette take off...
I had no idea either how far it had ran, or how far it was when i shot, so i drove the area in a grid pattern hoping to find it.
I guessed it was 120-150 yds from me so my grid search went out to about 180yds & found nothing.
Drove out there in the morning & found it straight away...it was a good 240 yds from where id let rip...i was wsy off & wasted 20 mins lookin for it the night before.
- Found him...!!
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You can see i got him a little way back, all because he was another 100yds further than id guessed...still pretty happy with the result given i couldnt actually see him...
This is entry wound.
- Smack bang in the middle
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It was a cold night & it didnt have its guts hangin out, so i took him back to camp & undressed him.
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So thats the part of foxing during lambing...
Here is the part of foxing during lambing that gets me every year...
Having one of these abandoned little ones bleeting out to me thinking (or hoping) im mum...
- Short lived...
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Then another...
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and another....
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All turned into breakfast by daylight...this one hacked up by birds, most likely crows.
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The others i found that night (or that found me), had vanishes...no doubt dinner to the clever foxes that avoided me, or the local Wedgie...
Anyway...got a few foxes for the farmer the next night but left one out in the paddock without realising so that one missed the portrait session...got a few different sized hoppy things too...some made it home...some were made instant fertilizer by the 204 & 22-250...
Got 5 over the 2 nights.
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And dont those hares hold some bloody claret..most of the blood you can see in this pic has leaked from head shot hares...!!!
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