nemasis243 Posted January 18, 2009 Report Share Posted January 18, 2009 Well it was an early start this morning and a 20mile drive to have a look at a few baits , they have been attracting foxes and the charlies have been feeding well and we have shot quite a few from the. A phone call from the farmer yesterday prompted a morning visit as he saw a fox on the bait about 8 o'clock in the morning ,anyway arrived at the farm and got to good vantage point which was well down wind approximately 180 yrds off the bait. I had a quick scan but there was nothing ,but it was just comming upto 7.30 so there was plenty of time for charlie to come for Breakfast. As I looked at the carass in the increaseing light loads of crows and magpies decended onto it , there must have been over 100 all trying to get a feed, Anyway rather than just sit in the truck I decided to have a mooch about round the other fields , its great that time of the morning and today the sun was beaming so it made it even better. I scanned the surounding land and across on the ajoining farm I spotted a fox trotting down the field , there was no use trying to call him as there was a river between us so he would have crossed it with the amount of water that was going down it and I didnt have permission to shoot on that land so I will hve to try and catch up to him again . So anyway I wandered back up to the bait and most of the crows and magpies had flown off and there was the odd one scattered around the field, I got the Swaro's out and a scan the bait was clear (or so I thought) and here was charlie sniffing his way across the top of the headland, I got set up and he moved across and suddenly looked at the bait and he froze, what the hell is he looking at , I thought , I scanned the carass again and there was nothing on it, so I decided to dispatch the fox there and then , I sqeezed a round off form the 243 and the 58grn Vmax , dropped him on the spot with the sound of a big thud comming back towards me, As the bullet hit him the water that was on his coat seemed to spray off in all directions as the bullet stuck , he was just over 200yrds away from my position and was quartering facing me , as I was elevated from him the bullet went in the front shoulder and blew most of his insides out as it exited. Before I moved from my position I scannned again with Bino's and there was nothing but the bait in the field. So I got down into the field and walked up the hedgeline and started to approach the fox , then out the corner of my eye I noticed movement , I froze and turned my head slightly to see a fox backing away from the carcass,he had been up inside the ribs and I couldnt see him, he had spotted me and decided to make a move back towards the woodland that lay a couple of hundred yards away. I flicked the X sticks open and rested the rifle on them , I called but to no avail he dissapeared over the bank into the wood. I called for about 10mins but nothing showed apart from the farmer on his quad who was doing the morning rounds. I waved him over and we both went and had a look at the fox I had just shot , it was a dog ,not the biggest I have seen but in very very good nick. I was pleased to take that one off as the farmer is starting to lamb in a few weeks , so I have a bit more work to do ,catching up with the one that got away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Sprags Posted January 18, 2009 Report Share Posted January 18, 2009 Nice going Nemasis. Regards,Sprags Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxwhistler Posted January 18, 2009 Report Share Posted January 18, 2009 Well done Nemasis. I must admit that i like early mornings. A good time to catch up with a few lamp shy foxes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6mmBR Posted January 18, 2009 Report Share Posted January 18, 2009 Glad to see you getting out You know what they say about all work and no play. Cheers Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob tail Posted January 18, 2009 Report Share Posted January 18, 2009 Hi Andy, Nice looking fox and a lovely colour too , glad to see you having a good result though for your efforts. CHEERS CHRIS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sapper063 Posted January 18, 2009 Report Share Posted January 18, 2009 do foxes stick to a set run and time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kip270 Posted January 18, 2009 Report Share Posted January 18, 2009 Well done Andy, your certainly getting to grips with them. ps turned the pic the right way round Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest martin Posted January 19, 2009 Report Share Posted January 19, 2009 Bloody hell Andy..........just one????? No serious now,well done mate,and a good read too,keep at 'em mate,speak soon.............martin. p.s. find that photo of the knife mate,and email me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nemasis243 Posted January 19, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 19, 2009 do foxes stick to a set run and time Hi mate I have spent a fair bit of time trying to catch the odd Charlie and over there years I have tried all sorts of tricks to give me the advantage. There have been many occassions where I have had foxes comming onto baits using the same runs and within minutes of the same time from the day before when I used the alarm clock trick to give me an indication of his habits. I have been caught out on many occassions where you have a big bait down and you think there is 1 or 2 foxes feeding from it , I have approached baits at night and have found upto 6 foxes on them at the same time, then its time to fill the Mag up I remember years ago I was asked to go to a small Pheasant shoot and the part time keeper just used a few wires and a shotgun to sort out his problem. One of the guns asked me to have a look round there one night and reluctantly the keeper agreed , he had some shock when I took 14foxes off there the first night, The farm where the shoot was situated had a huge dead pit two fields away from his pen ,he thought as the foxes would feed from the dead pit and not his Pheasants, after I started there they tripled the amount of birds they shot through the season, so it only goes to show they have a mixed diet. The foxes had three main runs through the farm and all the foxes seemed to use them, I would just set up depending on the wind,where I had a vantage point for two of them and wait for the foxes to come down the runs in the summer evenings, the most I shot in one evening was 9 . Believe it or not I took 120 foxes off that 220 acre farm in 12months, cheers Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
varminter Posted January 19, 2009 Report Share Posted January 19, 2009 Nice one Captin!!!!!!!! I know the fox is one crafty chappie , but now they are hiding away in carcases!!!! Speak to ya soon mate!!!!!! All the best................. RAY................................ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigun Posted January 20, 2009 Report Share Posted January 20, 2009 well done , at least you know you have another fox to go at which is nice to know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clivej Posted January 26, 2009 Report Share Posted January 26, 2009 As to what time do your foxes come around ia it the same time of the day of say time time from dawn? Or to put another way if a fox is seen 2 hours atfer dark will it still be 2 hours after dark when the summer months come round? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.223Mark Posted January 27, 2009 Report Share Posted January 27, 2009 Excellent write up nemisis and really good shooting yet again That was some going to get that amount of foxes off 220acres in twelve months Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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