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My third trip out with Martin on the lamp and a large dog fox fell too our efforts this evening.

There was a set of eyes at the top of one field and it spelt fox to me, with the strong wind the sheep were all hiding in the hedge down the bottom.

I stopped the truck around 200 yards out and had a scan for the ruby eyes, “nuts” it had moved to the fence then slid into the wood.

So we checked a field behind…nothing…back to the spot and a set of eyes further along but hovering behind a fallen tree.

I put the Kahles on 12 mag but with the light sky the red filter was not giving me the ID I wanted. So whispered white light!!!A nice white chest and a gap in the branches’ ……bang …thud and a 1000 jack doors start to squawk.

Paced it to 170 so quite pleasing and a large exit wound from the 75 gn ballistic tips.

 

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TEH

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nice one with regard to the filter you can usually get away without one but depends who else shoots round you, I recently got a deerelight with the red led module and that is considerably better than a lightforce 170 with filter. And far easier to carry more to the point!

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nice one with regard to the filter you can usually get away without one but depends who else shoots round you, I recently got a deerelight with the red led module and that is considerably better than a lightforce 170 with filter. And far easier to carry more to the point!

 

I am not keen on using a white light because it shows up the whole area and people can see it for miles, giving Mr&Mrs Busy Body and their curtain twitching neighbours a chance to ring up and mess up a good evening.

We like to turn up for 2/3 hours shoot foxes and go home “ Leave no mess only dead foxes”……….

 

 

TEH

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Im the lamp man ,,, yep it was a true shot as soon as i wipped of the red you could see it was a hard shot , the crafty fox was crouching down behind a large fallen branch

The "****" came after the crack of the rifle , but only because it was a clean kill. The was so much against the master ,, **** light long shot and a true meaning to the saying " Cant see the wood for the trees " Mater 1 fox 0 .. heres to another good night ,,,

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