Bob57

Nipped out for an hour before dinner tonight and got set up on a bait spot at 200yds,was watching through the thermal when Charlie steps out of the hedge and trots out to the bait, so fired up the drone, face on stock aiming at spot, turned on ir and there was the fox, just as I got on the trigger it lifted its head, and straight away looked my way and went all alert and ran a few yards, stopping to look at me head up high,all alert again. Wind was blowing from him to me, and I had a nice row of conifers behind me which I suppose he doesn't normally see the glow from an ir against, I've had quite a few foxes spook from that tiny ir glow now ,which just goes to show how alert foxes are to something slightly different on their patch, even at that range.

I was out Thursday night and it was daylight too, but still managed to spank 3 Charlie's though. .204 Ruger,39grn s/b/ks and drone on top,the best medicine for fox. Love it😀

Well done,you can't beat a nice 300 yarder at night😃 I wouldn't say a kid could have made the shot as I've known a few that couldn't !!

Beaters day today, nice little 32 bird day, and not a single fox seen😃

I like that, lovely looking rifle☺,sounds like a lot of hours work!!

👍 That's good to know for the future.

Thanks for reminding me of that gunner, I had read it before awhile ago,but didn't stay in the old brain lol, re read and now it's made my mind up to step down twice from a .223 sized case👍

Just get the 17 hornet, might cost a bit more for ammo but will be a better all round than the hmr, unless the cost of ammo is a real issue!! Or better still get a 17 fireball😃and reload for it.

A mate has given me 235 fed once fired cases,and has a redding 223 bushing die I can borrow,which will save some pennies😀at the moment , just need to buy bushings now. So measured the outside/inside of necks, the 204 bullet + brass neck thickness and minus 3 to 4 thou which gives me a bushing size of .228 to finish with . What are you chaps doing to get them to finished size, one or two steps down from 223 sized neck, I'm thinking .238 then .228 but wondering if I'd get there ok in one go, .249 to .228 ??

Me too with my dad and decoying pigeons, his Aya no4 used to nearly knock me over😂 . I only get a couple of driven invite days and a few beaters days, but I certainly earn it with all the picking up and foxing I do☺

Hi Josh, any smaller calibre's like .17, .20 and .22 in the pipeline, I think they'd go down well with a lot of vermin shooters !!

👍 Me too, 50 odd years now,I can remember struggling to cock the old underlever .177 BSA air rifle to shoot sparrows and starlings out of the oak trees at home😀. Once a keeper allways a keeper I reckon, anyway a great way of life, just had a lovely dinner, Pheasant breast wrapped with bacon, caseroled with mushrooms onions red peppers etc, roast and mashed potatoes, broccoli and mashed swede with a smashing gravy😋 👌 , followed with homemade apple crumble and vannila ice cream👌.washed down with a cracking hobgoblin😘. Pheasant shot friday on the plate tonight😀. And now you know why I didn't go foxing tonight😂😂.

Well done mate,nice head shot, and I had you down as a target/gong basher only. lol

Yep I think you're right montey about the mating,all of a sudden there's foxes on all my shoots again, promised to go to 3 shoots this week and it's bloody freezing 😞.not enjoyable up a hiseat at the moment.

Thanks for that JC👍. Anyone using vn133 with 32grn sbk's ?

Cheers for that gunner, I've not looked into the dies yet so that's good info,will order some lapua cases next week for a start👍

That's what I said to my mate teusday night, after seeing 5 more on the estate opposite this farm😃

Nah, there'll allways be dire straits 😁

👍. Let's hope it works well for you mate.

'Tuwatt-o-meter'😂😂love it, bradders has gone quiet, hope he's not died!!

Oi, language Geoffrey 😂😂😂

Cheers gunner, looks like vn133 is a good powder for the practical, exploding magpies, my favourite 😀

My ma and pa brought me up to say please and thank you too, I can't stand people that are rude and have no manners, but unfortunately there's not many like you bradders that speak their mind and tell the offenders, so keep it up, I like your sense of humour!!when this thread started kicking off It made me smile, as i thought you were having a laugh!! Anyway you won't get me going to bisley, did it 30 odd years ago and the drive was a pig then😀. Hopefully you'll be doing the drive for many more years to come.

Thanks for that fizz, I'm hoping I can get mine shooting well with vn133, as that's what shoots good in my .204 and fireball, be nice to use one powder for all 3. That's a good speed for 24 grns with 39 sbk's and 22" tube, I've decided 23" on mine. Your rifle sounds nice, I'd be interested to hear how you get on with the pard nv008 , sounds like a good unit for the money!!

Ok cheers mate, no worries ,sounds like a good round☺.I will find my own load, with vhitavouri powder hopefully, I use 39grn sbk's in my .204 Ruger so know they do a good job on fox but as this will be a bit multi purpose i fancy getting the 32gr sbk's singing, especially for the smaller vermin.