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  6. Welsh Game Fair

    in Events and Meets

    Posted · Edited by garygreengrass

    Who's going to this brilliant game fair this year. I'm going on Sat' 19th. It will be my 11th consecutive time there.

    It would be good to meet up with some other PW members.

     

    Steve.

     

     

    I am hopeing to be there and meet up. :good:

  11. Help finding insurance

    in Welcome to Pigeon Watch

    Posted

    alrite lads just wondering if anyone can recommend any good shooting insurance ive looked at a couple but i'm new to all this and didnt even no you needed insurance :oops:

     

     

    cheers

     

    Have a look at the countryside Alliance as the support all things to do with the countryside and trying to overturn the hunting ban. Myself and all my mates are with them. :oops:

  12. Another result foxing

    in Sporting Pictures

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    Went out tonight at 2300 with chunkyed in the hope that we would come across a fox or two, turned out it was only one, but its better than nothing.

     

    Anyway, we got into the first field which is an L-shape, turned the corner, put the lamp on and there was a fox in the bottom corner. As soon as I put the lamp on, it gave it legs. We got out the truck and had a squeak, lamp on again and nothing. It had gone, and I bet its still running now :)

     

    We proceeded to the next field with no joy, saw a cat... but for all you cat lovers out there, I left it.

     

    I drove around a few more fields, still with no luck so we stopped at the top near a boundary fence and had a squeak. In the distance we saw a pair of eyes, but it was a long way off. We tried calling it in, but the wind was quite strong in our faces so I don't think it could hear. At this point we thought, ****** it, lets look in the last field and head home. On the road on the way to the last field, we pass another field which is owned by the same farmer, I put the lamp out of the window and turned it on in pure hope that there would be a fox there. Lo and behold, there was, right near the gate to the road. I drove past and went straight to the next field. Pulled up, jumped the gate, chunkyed on the lamp, gun out of the slip and we were ready. A security light turned on behind us so we moved further down the hedgerow to get away from the light. I started squeaking on the back of my hand (forgot the WAM caller) and Ed switched the lamp on, with a red filter. The fox was heading our direction at a fast rate of knots. It jumped over an electric fence and kept coming. When it got to about 30 yards, I let 36 grams of number 1's go his direction. It ran! So we ran :) I had another shot and got a miss-fire, reloaded, and had another, it was still running. It had 5 shots in the end, poor ******, it obviously wasn't his time to go. We caught up with it the other side of the field lying in the ditch.

    Enough from me...

     

    Another one down

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    Another dog fox to add to the list.

     

    All the best,

    Sam :good:

     

     

     

    ??? All that matters is it"s good ending, sometime these things happen,Well done.

  16. how big a calibre for fox

    in Guns & Equipment

    Posted

    I use a .243 for fox with home load 65 grn hornady v-max, but before I started to load my own I was using 55grn honady v-max a real good fast accurate bullet. My advice is get a box and give them a try it"s a lot cheaper then a new riffle.

    When I applyed for my FAC I put down fox and deer for my .243.

  17. This is a big fox

    in Sporting Pictures

    Posted

    Out on the hunt again last night after complaints from another farmer, this my best shot yet at 275yards with a lamp and using a red fillter I also had another dog fox at 245 yards went up today with rangefinder. This as got to be one of the biggest foxes I have shot. The rifle in the picture is my .17hmr not .243 I used .17hmr and my boy just to try to get some scale to the photo.

     

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  18. Dog fox and lamb last night

    in Sporting Pictures

    Posted

    Well done mate. isnt that lamb a tad big for a fox to kill?? don't really know but have only heard of them taking really young lambs i.e. very small. maybe it was dead and he picked it up?? either way that fox had a taste for lamb and you have stopped it, good shot.

    I took the photo with my phone but the lamb does look as big as the fox as the lamb was a new born must be me **** at takeing photos and a cheap phone?

  19. Dog fox and lamb last night

    in Sporting Pictures

    Posted

    Had a phone call from one of the farms I shoot yesterday that he is missing some lambs, when up last night and saw one pair of eyes out across the valley which I estimated at about 150-160 yards, got out of my discovery set the rifle up on the bonnet with the bipod switched on the lamp (scope mounted light force 140 with red filter) put the cross hair right between the eyes and squeezed the trigger, I could hear the bullet making impact and lights out.

    Went up today with my range finder to check the range and move the fox out of the way, It turned out to be 175 yards and a head shot ( well pleased with that shot ) but next to the fox was a lamb with puncher marks in the head looks like I had the offender a nice big dog fox.post-21386-1270858425.jpg

  20. Lightforce

    in Other Sales

    Posted

    Gun mounted? You can get barrel mounts for shotguns.

    You can get mounts for these lamps for shotguns I have seen them on the net in the UK for sale but can"t remember where try goolgeing light force lamp gun mounts.

  22. Please can you give me some rifle advice

    in Guns & Equipment

    Posted

    I think the savage is a great gun looks good and fires great. the only problem i find is it is a little heavy.

     

     

    I would go for the savage too. :blush:

    I have hit a drawing pin at 100yrds and the second shot missed by 5 mill very nice looking rifle too.

    But the best advice on what rifle you get is get a good scope if you can"t see it you can"t hit it?

  23. Calibre Question

    in Bullets, Cartridges and Reloading

    Posted · Edited by garygreengrass

    You want go far wrong with a .17hmr if you are only getting one gun for now as I use a .17hmr for fox and rabbits ( head shots ) out to 120 yards, you will be surprised how far that looks in the dark with a lamp. Very accurate rifle but there is an issue with the wind. As for a .22 I got rid of it for a .17hmr best thing I have ever done as I found .22 only to accurate 50-60 yards. If you know somebody with these rifles my advice would try one to see what you thing as this just my personal choice, or you can be like me and use a .243 65grn for both and take the rabbits head off as you don’t eat the head. :lol:

     

    If you are close to me you can come and try mine.

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