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Decided to go lamping on foot tonight.

Crunch crunch crunch on the frozen ground!

I walk a few miles tonight and am worn out!

Got busted by one and heard a dog fox in the distance so headed that way.

When I found them it was a small dog and a large vixen.

The dog slipped away but the vixen hung around, she took some stalking what with hedges, closed gates, mud and frost. 

I ended up with a 70yd chest shot to the front. The Hornady 30grn put her straight down for good.

A smart vixen just coming into season.

 

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A fair size too.

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U.

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This is good fieldcraft and the end result was a shot at 70yds. All to many times I read of shooters who claim that they can't get closer than 2 to 3 hundred yards. If consideration is given to the wind, background and lay of the land the distance to the target can be reduced. I have then sqeeked them in to the other side of a ditch and the other side of an apple tree.

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24 minutes ago, toxo said:

Good work U.

A bit of hard work usually pays off in the end. Do you do any calling or just stalking?

Bit of both, I could not locate the last two but switching a vixen call on revealed them a treat even if they did not come to it.

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