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  1. Adding to this, his backstop as he described it was a big dip in the field shooting off a tripod. So a downward shot if that makes sense.
  2. Bumped into a guy who I don't see very often but I know does shooting. Got round to talking about foxes, bad weather and all the usual fed up stuff. He told me about a night he had recently and asked my opinion, so after giving him my answer I thought I would check on here for others opinions who are experienced foxers, and know more than me. He had a fox sitting looking at him at an estimated 80 yds, took the shot with a .223, heard the expected thud but fox runs off fast with tail straight out. He searched around with thermal spotter in the same field for the fox with no joy. He moved then to the next field, hoping he would find a dead fox. About 20 minutes had passed since the shot when a fox " casually in no rush " as he described it came walking down the field, which he shot. Obviously he was gutted and annoyed about the first fox. I suggested that I had seen a RIPS 260 video where hit foxes run with their tail up, and a hard hit fox can run a distance before keeling over. I also suggested the thud he heard could have been the bullet hitting the ground where the field was so wet and squelchy gave the sound. So, Q1 can a hit fox run with its tail straight out rather than up ? And Q2 could the fox he shot be the original 1st fox that ran off after a miss and then just happened to wander passed him ?
  3. I've done a search but nothing comes up, can't find any mention of the oneleaf 400 new day / night scope. Any views on it. ? Nobody fancy one ?
  4. Haven't been on here for a while, so don't moan if it has been talked about before. When I went to sign in, the stuff about agreeing to cookies and data protection came up. Is this something new after connection / server problems arose ? Can't ever remember having to do it before.
  5. When fitting picatinny mounts to a rail, do you position the pin to the front or back of the slots ?
  6. Unless I missed it in another thread. What's the thoughts on the new Alpex LRF ? Anybody tempted ?
  7. Probably not available any more, I have a box each of Eley in BB's and AAA's in 20g. The BB are RTO but the AAA are crimped. I have in the past as suggested above, opened up some 1oz loads and sacrificed a couple of 12g cartridges to swap shot size. I used to swap Sellior and Bellot no 7's with a RTO, probably not available any more.
  8. Stayed down Cheddar Woods for 3 nights. Had a drive down to Cheddar Gorge, caves flooded and the river was a proper torrent.
  9. Am I the first to post in 2024 ? Well, Happy New Year for 2024, if such a thing exists in this funny old world we live in. 🥳
  10. My brother seen a young rabbit yesterday.
  11. Of all the stupid things NRW has come up with I think this is the stupidest. I wrote to them last time they altered the Welsh GL, pointing out magpies are definitely on the increase, giving them examples of actual personal sightings. Well done NRW.
  12. To be honest I was going by my spotter's image and footage I've seen on YouTube. I have never looked through a thermal scope and can imagine that some of them have come in leaps and bounds, and are continuing to get better as nv did. I don't do Facebook but will get someone to show me what you said.👍 what does the LF mean in your post ?
  13. That's why I don't fancy a thermal scope, even if target identified, you are just aiming at a blob.
  14. Took a friend out last night, not the best night as no wind, but it was the only night available due to bad weather coming. Lot of woodcock and a few rabbits and owls. No definite sightings of fox. But two sightings left us baffled. First one, put caller out about 60 yds away close to a bank as a backstop on a vixen mating call. Within 5 minutes, 3 separate heat sources are looking over the bank about 20 yds apart. With the vegetation I could see them in the spotter but not tidy in the nv scope. Second one, different area picked up something with spotter in a hedge. Looked foxy. Had scope on it for about 15 minutes and could see a pair of eyes moving back and fore looking at me. Tried gentle squeaking but it wasn't interested. In the end it won and we moved on. Put it down to fox or cat. Any suggestions ? Might add, there are no gamebirds on this land.
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