Gonna Shoot a Wabbit Posted August 27, 2008 Report Share Posted August 27, 2008 Hi all. Been a while since i posted anything, pressures of work and all that good stuff but don YTS and i were out this evening on a fox call out on one of local patches. One of our local farmers had been in touch complaining about foxes since the combine had been through and the field had already been ploughed and drilled. It is like the chuffin tractor olympics with this farmer. Where the combine leaves the field and the plough follows it. Anyway we pride ourselves on a 24hr notice fox call out so the pressure was on to do well. We arrived at 2045hrs on a light breezy night with no moon to speak of. Perfect for calling foxes We set up the .223 with your humble scribe in charge of the sako, whilst don had the annie .17 to deal with any rabbits. We made our way round and in the second field YTS has a pair of eyes in the lamp. He kindly directs me to a nice flat area just in front of me to avoid the dead ground in front and i deploy the bipod and make ready. The fox is not coming to the call and is undecided what to do. I am watching it through the scope at 120yds (god bless that swarovski) lying down and sitting up repeatedly and cocking its head as it listened to the call. It lay down again not presenting a shot and you have probably guessed whats coming. I place the cross hairs where i expect it to rise up and hey presto a red chest appears in the cross hairs as it sits up again and it cocks it head to listen again, cue a gentle squeeze on the trigger and THUMP!! The fox was facing me as i shot it and i aimed for the upper chest, the exit wound is a little gruesome those v max bullets sure do their job it dropped without a twitch. We slowly made our way round without seeing any more foxes until we came to our boundary field which we have shot alot of foxes in. Sure enough as we take up position and begin calling YTS has soon found another fox coming to the call. No daft fox this though as it tries to circle round us to the right to try to come back with the wind in its favour. I am on the deck in an instant with bipod deployed and tracking the fox in the scope. However it aint stopping and is determined to get downwind of us and if it does the game is up. It goes past at 80yds. My vixen yelp doesn't stop it nor does a crescendo of rabbit squeals. YTS tried old faithful and shouts "oi" it bloomin well stopped at 80yds and looked at us.....it hesitated for 2 seconds too long, gentle squeeze on the trigger and thump another clean hit. At the shot YTS gave a quick squeal scanned the field and saw another fox coming. Adrenaline is pumping now. I make an effort to calm myself as the fox follows the same plan as the previous one only this one circles right at 120yds trying to get downwind. It is in dead ground and all i can see is the foxes head, the same shout resulted in it stopping for long enough to place the crosshairs between the eyes and "thump" No 3 goes down without a twitch. I stay down as YTS scans the field and pronounces that is em all. As we made our way to pick up the first one i shot at 80yds YTS has another look round the field and spots another pair of eyes a long way off 240+yds away. I can only see a pair of eyes........i think it is a fox.........NO SHOT!! i aint sure so lets walk it up. I would rather chance losing the fox if that is what it is rather than the unthinkable. We close the range down to 140yds. i deploy the bipod and make ready. The lamp goes on and sure enough a fox is looking at me. It stands to come in to the call but i am ready for it. It takes a half step the right to begin to try to get downwind of us and gives me a classic broadside on view of it. No mistake and a gentle squeeze on the trigger and solid thump announces the 4th fox in the bag this evening. After collecting the slain to show a very happy farmer we head for home. Our job done and a very happy farmer. I was very pleased with my shooting tonight. All the foxes positively identified, shot at sensible ranges and all 4 never knew what hit 'em. Thanks for reading. rgds GSAW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeshaw08 Posted August 27, 2008 Report Share Posted August 27, 2008 Great write up and top shooting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auto Posted August 28, 2008 Report Share Posted August 28, 2008 Nice shooting big man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tulkyuk Posted August 28, 2008 Report Share Posted August 28, 2008 Well done boys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnGalway Posted August 28, 2008 Report Share Posted August 28, 2008 Tractor olympics followed by the foxing olympics Good stuff lads keep at them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROBLATCH Posted August 28, 2008 Report Share Posted August 28, 2008 nice shooting guys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magman Posted August 28, 2008 Report Share Posted August 28, 2008 Well done Good to see you all out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axe Posted August 28, 2008 Report Share Posted August 28, 2008 Good work indeed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_b_wales Posted August 28, 2008 Report Share Posted August 28, 2008 Excellent shooting. Well done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pavman Posted August 28, 2008 Report Share Posted August 28, 2008 nice work cracking read Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willcsmith Posted August 28, 2008 Report Share Posted August 28, 2008 good shooting. a very good nights work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dead-Eyed Duck Posted August 28, 2008 Report Share Posted August 28, 2008 All he had to do was to pull the trigger It was YTS's lamping and my calling that did the trick Don Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kev 1 Posted August 28, 2008 Report Share Posted August 28, 2008 A job well done Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magman Posted August 28, 2008 Report Share Posted August 28, 2008 All he had to do was to pull the trigger ??? It was YTS's lamping and my calling that did the trick Don Looks like things are back to normal Don , pleased for you mate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tikkamark Posted August 28, 2008 Report Share Posted August 28, 2008 Great shooting lads and cracking write up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stealth Stalker Posted August 28, 2008 Report Share Posted August 28, 2008 Great write up mate & cracking result SS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scifiden Posted August 28, 2008 Report Share Posted August 28, 2008 great write up & pictures. I'm dancin on the ceiling waiting for my fac. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scout Posted August 28, 2008 Report Share Posted August 28, 2008 Great write and good shooting, calling and lamping. Well done both of you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grasshopper Posted August 28, 2008 Report Share Posted August 28, 2008 It`s great when a plan comes together....very well done to you all good read too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Posted August 29, 2008 Report Share Posted August 29, 2008 (edited) Thats good pest control and shooting, nice size foxes too, keep up the good work. Edited August 29, 2008 by Frank Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bullet boy Posted August 30, 2008 Report Share Posted August 30, 2008 Well done!Great write-up,fab pics and three cracking foxes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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