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hello folks, my first ever photo posted, just a picture of my first fox since moving to dumfries and galloway. This was not the fox i was after but it made me very happy. I was out checking my trout farm last nite and spotted a fox mooching around the field next to the farm so raced home to get the .22 as the .22-250 is out of action at the moment. When i came back the fox was still there but soon legged it after a wee call so i quickly ran down the bottom of the farm to cut it off.It had dissapeared but this one came running out the woods to my left but wasnt stopping so i made a BAHH to make it stop and thump , i hit it right in the chest with a remington high velocity but the ****** ran for 50 yards before falling stone dead. Has any one else had this, the fox was only 30 yards away when i shot it and the bulled passed straight through its heart area.

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the 22LR is renound for its quietness not it's stopping power :welcomeani: , and as it is such a small bullet, I dont think it has the sheer blunt force of other calibers to cope with shooting larger animals such as fox, it is more of a rabbit & squirel gun, shots at fox can be taken, but only at close range, and I would say only at the head, because a projectile traveling through it's head no matter what the animal will kill it, chest shots on a fox with a 22LR in my opinion is very risky, but if the bullet does go through something like the heart in the chest cavity, the fox is commig down, it is more risky to take these sort of shots :good:

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the 22LR is renound for its quietness not it's stopping power :welcomeani: , and as it is such a small bullet, I dont think it has the sheer blunt force of other calibers to cope with shooting larger animals such as fox, it is more of a rabbit & squirel gun, shots at fox can be taken, but only at close range, and I would say only at the head, because a projectile traveling through it's head no matter what the animal will kill it, chest shots on a fox with a 22LR in my opinion is very risky, but if the bullet does go through something like the heart in the chest cavity, the fox is commig down, it is more risky to take these sort of shots :good:

 

and how many foxes have you shot with your 22 please.

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ive alawys considred the .22lr to be inconvenient, eg: jamming up magazines misfires ive even had a breach explosion myself. personally i intend to stay away from rimfires as they do not have good stopping power.they are alrite with rabbits and other small vermin but if you are going foxing at least give the fox the rite to die quickly and with at least pain possible.for this i preffer either .223

or .220 swift (im not saying that these are the only allowances). sorry if im being a bit critical but i just dont think its rite using such a small round on such a large animal :welcomeani:

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i just have to give my view on ''no matter what the animal will kill it'' i was out once with a freind and we saw a fox. we were only out for rabbits and in the clip was cci stingers. i lined up on its forehead and fired. it went down but got back up again wich amazed me i had to put another 3 into his head and neck area to bring it down. this upset me quite a bit

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the 22LR is renound for its quietness not it's stopping power :welcomeani: , and as it is such a small bullet, I dont think it has the sheer blunt force of other calibers to cope with shooting larger animals such as fox, it is more of a rabbit & squirel gun, shots at fox can be taken, but only at close range, and I would say only at the head, because a projectile traveling through it's head no matter what the animal will kill it, chest shots on a fox with a 22LR in my opinion is very risky, but if the bullet does go through something like the heart in the chest cavity, the fox is commig down, it is more risky to take these sort of shots :good:

 

and how many foxes have you shot with your 22 please.

 

I have shot no foxes with my 22LR but all you have to do is look at the round and see that it is not the ideal fox weapon, it will kill foxes but as dogfox stated it would be better to use something a bit more powerfull, I said risky which means it is possible to kill it. Something going through its heart is assured of killing it but I do not think it has the knock down power of the more suited fox calibers :good:

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I have killed 11 foxes using .22lr, very good for the job (sub 60yds) if you go for head shots, and ONLY if you are confident. I would never cosider a chest shot with a .22lr

 

Still, good sized fox you have got there, not suprised it ran for a while.

Looks like a nice area you moved to :welcomeani:

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Nice one m8, good to see another take a tumble, shame it wasn`t a vixen.

Another thing to remember is that at this time of year they are breeding and the hormones are up as well as the fact it was halted by a human voice which will send the adrenalin up.All of this will make a beast run as most stalkers will know only too well.

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Well done Weejohn, Shot this yesterday on the farm, close to a field were ewes are lambing, was out with the .22 after magpies and saw him 50 yard away sniffing round some big bales, got to within 20 yards and dropped him stone dead, I understand that .22 is not a foxing round but at this range there was no way I was going to let him pass, as a farmer who has seen a fair few examples of the carnage they can cause this time of year I did not think twice about the shot

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Nice one, the .22lr is fine at that range and fine with a chest shot. In fact its almost preferable due to the target size. They run for a number of reasons adrenalin is a big one but with the damage caused never go too far but can take a few seconds for the fox to realise its numbers up.

Had you shot it at 30 yards with the 22-250 I'd have hated to see what happened :lookaround:

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Nice one m8, good to see another take a tumble, shame it wasn`t a vixen.

Another thing to remember is that at this time of year they are breeding and the hormones are up as well as the fact it was halted by a human voice which will send the adrenalin up.All of this will make a beast run as most stalkers will know only too well.

 

 

This was a vixen , the other fox was MUCH bigger, i have shot a few foxs with the .22 with high velocity bullets and all of them that were shot at about the 20 -30 yrd mark in the heart ran before falling stone dead, it is unusual since using the .22-250 puts a rather large hole in them. The closest fox i shot with the .22-250 was about 10 yds and that was in the head, not much left i must say.

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Try the head :lookaround:

It brings them flat down, I have had them simply drop on there knees almost like sitting.

This is with both subsonic and High velocity ammo. Even when I get the chance on fox with the .222, I will still go for the head as its what I have used for almost everything, and it works 100% everytime if you hit the right mark.

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WELL DONE :lookaround:

 

The .22lr, is good for foxes only in certain conditons, below 60yds and make sure you hit brain or, engine room :lookaround:

 

Below, is 2 i got last August, 1 in the boiler room and other brain shot. :whistling:

 

Funnyly enough, the chest shot fox droped, using winchester subs.

 

Frank.

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