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Think I should of just put "shot my first fox!" And left it at that, thought people on here said about hi and lows. The fox I couldn't find was within range, 60 yards approx, I thought shot was good, he moved just as I squeezed trigger, maybe a bit of inexperience, lesson learnt! As for follow up to check, not allowed on the land, farmer was pleased I didn't as they don't see eye to eye!

I wouldn't of considered the shot if I was confident it would be a kill, the fox pictured was slightly further away, only a little bit, and dropped where it was hit, quick and clean, as I expected the first to be.

But lesson learned, don't share everything!!

Fair enough mate , I'm just glad that most people on here try to insure that they do everything in their power to insure good clean kills , eg 32gram 5s for pigeons and rabbits cos heaven forbid they would use anything lighter cos that could be presumed as ( under gunning it) . I must be a total sinner as I decided to shoot some pigeons with a 410 Saturday because I fancy it and one pigeon was hit made it to the next field slap bang in the middle of some peas and I wasn't prepared to trample the field to find it. So in my opinion I'm as bad as you, just you hit a fox and I hit a pigeon.

Think I should of just put "shot my first fox!" And left it at that, thought people on here said about hi and lows. The fox I couldn't find was within range, 60 yards approx, I thought shot was good, he moved just as I squeezed trigger, maybe a bit of inexperience, lesson learnt! As for follow up to check, not allowed on the land, farmer was pleased I didn't as they don't see eye to eye!

I wouldn't of considered the shot if I was confident it would be a kill, the fox pictured was slightly further away, only a little bit, and dropped where it was hit, quick and clean, as I expected the first to be.

But lesson learned, don't share everything!!

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It was always going to happen................HMR and missed/injured fox, it could have been a .243, and what would everyone have said then.

 

The fact is a HMR is VERY effective on fox if used correctly.

 

...and none of us is perfect with whatever we have in our hands, but I still think it best to simply keep stum when it goes wrong.

 

There can seldom be justification on a open forum to discuss the mistakes! :good:

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