adi1210 Posted November 6, 2011 Report Share Posted November 6, 2011 (edited) Got ready yesterday to go for the first rough shoot my dad and i have been working on all summer. we have put feeders out put small stips of musted crop around 2 small spinnies, put barley in the pond up every other night and done some serious foxing. Weve taken 52 foxes since feb this year. With all the work done we were ready for a good old walk round.There were 4 of us with 2 dogs to walk the woods and the crops out so all was covered. we stated on the thick hedges leading to the wood with myself one side and my dad the other and my two friends spread out inline next to my dad in the tall rape field, hoping to flush them or run them down to the cover crops, as we just got going we flushed an early cock bird which my friend folded nicely with a single shot. half way down the hedge we could see the birds running on through the rape, so we were getting a bit giddy. we got to the cover crop and all hell broke loose, there were pheasants everywere getting up and flying straight over the spinney. we should of stood someone round the back of the spinney at the begining,they would have had some brilliant shooting.anyway with only a few birds down out of a good 30+ we were more than happy. we stood and had a bit of a talk how best to walk the spinney through. What we ended up doing was.I stood at the very end of the spiney around 40 yards out into the field waiting for birds to fly forward. friend no 1 walked on side friend no 2 walked the other and my dad in the middle with the dogs. all 3 of them walked the spinney through slowly. all i could hear was guns going off and stop whistle blowing, thought i was in the wrong place untill i heard my dad shout "FORWARD" i was well ready for 2 cock birds flying at the top of some tall willows, Fantastic stuff. birds were also braking from the sides of the spinney so plenty of shooting for both my friends, they nearly walked it through when 2 roe deer ran out, i watched them run right across the field then my dad shouted "FOX" i turned round and there he was running flat out maybe 30yards away from me, i bowled him over in 1. Thats the one that we missed one night while lamping and we havent been able to get near him since. Great stuff and well chuffed. the spinney was walked now so it was round to the pond. What we do at the pond is stand each gun at the back side of some trees like in a triangle shape a good 30 yards bk from the pond and one of us walks to the pond and gets the ducks up but cannot shoot, that was my job. with everyone ready i walked slowly with the dogs upto the pond. up they went, must of been a good 20 or so mallard on with a few teal. they went high and bended right round each gun making brilliant testing shots,my dad dropped two and each of my mates dropped one each. another fantastic result. here's a pic of the fox i shot and the bag at the end of the day. Edited November 6, 2011 by adi1210 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gigs Posted November 6, 2011 Report Share Posted November 6, 2011 great mixed bag mate well done we had our second shoot of season yesterday we had 44 pheasants and one fox Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dorsey Posted November 6, 2011 Report Share Posted November 6, 2011 Sounds like a perfect day and good to see all that hard work has paid off! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adi1210 Posted November 6, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 6, 2011 fantastic mate.. all the birds we shoot are wild birds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mpk Posted November 6, 2011 Report Share Posted November 6, 2011 Well done a brilliant bag Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon123 Posted November 6, 2011 Report Share Posted November 6, 2011 Well done mate, Good shooting :good: 52 foxes since feb :blink: :blink: :blink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cometa24/7 Posted November 6, 2011 Report Share Posted November 6, 2011 well done adi, you and your guns/dogs..nice to see you had that fox that you'd missed while out lamping. Good story and pics. well done also for that hard work you all put in,it definatly paid off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyrapid177mk2 Posted November 6, 2011 Report Share Posted November 6, 2011 great mixed bag there good bit of shooting nice pics...RESULT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adi1210 Posted November 6, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 6, 2011 cheers guys, yer we had 52 foxes when we thought there were only a few, its a guy on PW that helps me out with the foxing hes a great help and top shot. we saw 14 last week in one night lamping, i missed 2 and shot 1,my mate shot one and missed one. the rest were too far or in bad place to shoot. think im going to try the frenchi boy alarm clock thing. Night vision would help no end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adi1210 Posted November 6, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 6, 2011 Well done mate, Good shooting :good: 52 foxes since feb :blink: :blink: :blink: maybe evan march cant quite remember when, Got the eye in from on here started coming down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deadliestdecoy Posted November 6, 2011 Report Share Posted November 6, 2011 sounds like you had a good day and nice write up too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texas Posted November 7, 2011 Report Share Posted November 7, 2011 Great shooting fella, nice photos too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wildfowler12 Posted November 7, 2011 Report Share Posted November 7, 2011 Great write up, and a great bag too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frenchieboy Posted November 7, 2011 Report Share Posted November 7, 2011 It sounds like you had an excellent days shooting with good company to boot! Well done. You have just shown how a good "vermin control program" and thoughtful game management can pay big dividends, even on a "smaller shoot"! Full credit to you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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