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It must be desperate to let every other fox in the area know that’s its spot because there was a good 15 mole hills and every one had a little ? on it
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Well I’ve had a little break from my duties at the shoot, so today decided to do a few small jobs, firstly filling a couple of feeders with the leftover wheat for the pheasants that are still about and the large amount of songbirds, it was good to see a fair few more hens about than the cocks. After gathering up the feeders and electric fence units I decided to make a list of repairs needed to the pens, it turns out that with all this wind we have had there’s a fair amount of damage to all 3 of the pens, these repairs will be carried out at the end of spring once the weather improves, so with
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It was calm last night, when I left I came back through Helmsley and it was blowing a gale, which is mad because it’s 5 minutes from the shoot, I was there today and it was wild, started snowing when left about half 5
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Last nights foxing adventure was a trip to the pheasant shoot, now last time I was there we didn’t see a thing but as the weather was looking favourable with no moon and warm for this time of year I decided to give it another go, on arrival we headed to a part of the shooting know as the piggeries as this spot is well known for fox traffic, after 15 minutes or so Hugo’s dad spotted one a long way off through the thermal and with the hare call on full volume it wasn’t long before we peaked its interest and it started heading down the hedge back, at approximately 200 yards it decided to make a m
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I’d go for it, you’ll get nowt sat in the house ?
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There’s only one make Dave, the question is what variant you want it in ??
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Bonus that, now you have all the gear it’s your duty to abandon your family and spend all weekend out on the hunt, day and night, if your better half has anything to say about that tell her to give me a ring and I will set her straight for you ? ive just thought, she hasn’t got my number, I’m sure you can deal with it ?
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I have no problem with getting rid of single use plastics, I haven’t used plastic wads for years now and if they can get the price of the eco wads down and make bio degradable cases I would definitely use them ( or go back to paper ) but to try and ban lead is f*cking nuts, people feeding ducks bread kills more than lead shot does, unless it’s coming at them at speed
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What do you think, have you ever seen him smile ? with your new gear, it will look like I’ve just taken you out of your rapper next time we are out ?
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Lovely that, I know the weather is still terrible and we are expecting snow but you can still see things starting to come to life, it’s nice to get a break in the weather to enjoy some early season sunshine ?
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Cracking result mr sausage, I’ve never seen foxes working together to ambush rabbits, It would of been interesting to see if they made it work, but when the opportunity to take the shot appears you know what you have to do ?
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Well I thought I’d give the sheep farm another go tonight, now the wind was still mental but at least it wasn’t raining, tonight I took little Hugo’s dad with me, I gave him the chance to shoot as he has had a couple of misses lately and needed to redeem himself, I even let him use his chopstick shooting sticks, On arrival I noticed that a group of ewes and lambs had been moved to the top field as this is the driest place on the farm, so that’s where we headed, getting to the top of the field it was a few seconds before we spotted the fox heading at a good pace along the track towards the lamb
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Woo woo, just think you can spend all day lambing and then all night waiting for the gingers, you will never see your family again
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They are not cheap, at about £120 I got it to go with a night vision scope when I finally make my mind up what I’m doing It goes back about another 15’ where the pens are with the lamps, that’s probably the smallest one, I think there’s only 14 ewes in there, there’s another 4 next to that and massive shad the other side of the yard, the also have a round house in the middle of the yard that used to have about 40 beast in it and they use that as well, they are well into it now with a fair few tucked up against the hedge backs trying to keep out the wind and rain last night
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After getting a phone call from the sheep farm informing me that a fox had been spotted in with the lambs I told him I’d be up tonight, now the wind is strong but we can deal with that, so I picked up longshanx and headed to the farm, on arrival we noticed that the wind had got stronger and it had started to rain, by the time we got to the top field the rain was heavy and sideways so we tucked up behind a hedge and gave it half an hour with the mouth caller, by this time the wind and rain was mental so that was the end of that, back to the car, I stopped off at the lambing sheds to tell the fa
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That’s quality service, I hope whoever swiped yours at the show is so well camouflaged in the field that the farmer doesn’t see him and squashes the tw*t with his tractor ? ?
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Cracking pictures almost makes me want to take a couple of kids hostage just so I can take them out shooting ??
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Nice work sausage, good to see someone is managing to get out in a his weather ?
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A cracking result, they have shy’d off the mating call up this way, we’ll hopefully be up at the sheep farm this week giving the lost lamb call it’s first outing ?
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That is a beautiful place, I really do need to broaden my horizons and start taking shooting trips to other countries ??
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The one I’ve got on the side of mine is an 840, I would of thought the inbuilt one in the long ones spotter will be the same, I’m going to stick the laser on because that doesn’t seem to bother them
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That looks amazing, I’m always interested to see how people hunt in other countries, we don’t shoot birds with rifles often in England, if we do we use small calibres, we use .308 for deer, sometimes on fox, what else do you hunt?
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Good stuff, completely different to anything we do over here, what calibre rifle do you use for the capercaillie ?
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The more I think about it, I was a little tw*t, now my nephews just ask for money and get it, we had to be a bit more enterprising about how we came by our cash
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Hahaha, we did that to, Newcastle brown ale bottles, olde English cider and lowcocks pop bottles, hop over the back wall and pass them to your mate, you could do about 3 quid on a good day, another one around our way was people would put the money for the milkman in an empty bottle on the doorstep for him to collect on his rounds
