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    The beam is adjustable, it will flood or focus down to a spot. You wouldn't be able to use this on spot with a photon, there would be far too much light for the camera to cope with and it would "white out". However you could back it off untill it gives you the picture you want but if the n/m 800 is doing a good job i wouldn't bother.
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    Been doing a fair bit of foxing lately and last night was no different. I decided to go to the keepered shoot as i hadn't been for a week and there are always foxes there as it is such a large area surrounded by land that either isn't shot over or isn't keepered. Anyway the first place i went to and started calling at produced a dog fox in about five minutes of getting there. Nothing special, just a one hundred and fifty yard shot saw him go down. I am glad i had the dog with me as it slid down a ditch bank and wasn't visible in the undergrowth. I would of spent quite a bit of time lo
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    I couldn't see the rats with it either.?
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    I know what you mean but sheep and cattle are the worst for it. However it doesn't take long to scroll through the captured images. It's such a long time since i went out with terriers. You have just reminded me how much i used to enjoy the anticipation of whether a fox would bolt into a net or not. Great times they were. Which is fine if you aren't accountable for looking after large numbers of gamebirds. I can just picture the scene if i turned up with a lamp and muzzle loading rifle to control foxes. I don't think it would take the keeper long to say "foxtrot oscar and
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    The siting of trail cams is down to knowing your ground. On any given piece of ground foxes will invariably use the same routes, fox after fox, year after year. It takes me half an hour every other day to read the cameras and replace bait if required. Technology doesn't replace field craft it enhances it. On the other hand if you are a dimmock ( not speaking about ud ) no amount of high tech gear will help you, you will merely be a dimmock with good gear. He does but i don't believe he uses trail cams, hence the wings, probably.?
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    The intelligence gathered from trail cams is absolutely the best. It is a recording of what has actually happened with a date and time stamp. A fresh turd or whatever will tell you if a fox has been in the area but not when, a trail cam will. If you have several cams out and the fox is captured on more than one, as will be the case if you have sited them correctly they will also tell you which direction they have come from aswell. I like to kill them before we get to the pheasants wings laying about stage.?
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    Oh i know only to well how many there would be if i didn't hammer them relentlesly. The lad that runs our shoot and one of his mates used to walk round with a lamp every now and then, or try to react to seeing pheasants, partridge or ducks that had been eaten. When i joined the syndicate he asked me to have a go at them because he knew i used different methods and to be frank i have more time than him. As you know using a thermal spotter and a decent n/v scope, plus the intelligence you gather from trail cams is a far more productive method than wandering about with a lamp. I used to lov
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    I know there are no foxes on the small syndicate shoot i am in because i have six cameras out all the time in the fox hotspots and baited. I shot one on Monday night that turned up saturday night for the first time. I like to kill them as they turn up. Last year was the first year ever there were no cubs about on the shoot, because i killed every fox that turned up in Jan, Feb and March. The big keepered shoot i shoot foxes on is a different kettle of fish though. It is 8,000 acres and surrounded by unkeepered land, so foxes continually filter in. I shot three big dogs on Friday night u
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    Thermal spotters don't always help with finding things that have been shot. I spent an hour last week looking for a fox i had shot in a grass field that was due to be cut. Ther.mal in hand i was virtually on top of it before i saw the heat source. The dog is the best thing for finding dead stuff
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    Good going! It should be good when the maize is cut.
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    Good shot !
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    Good morning out.
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    Interesting to see the various patterns. I remember years ago trying out .22 shotshells. It was summer and i had a pair of shorts on. I had leant a thick piece of marine ply against a few bricks with a rat target on it similar to yours. From a distance of about 5 yds i shot at it and most of the shot bounced off the marine ply and hit me in the legs, i think that was the day i learned to dance! ?
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    I have had a couple of 243s and both liked Norma 58grn.
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    Well done! how do you like the round?
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    Much depends on what you call "do it all". What exactly are you going to be doing with it?
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    I have several cameras and different types but the ones i prefer are this type, 273449712017. I have read the spec of this one but it gives conflicting information. It says it is 850nm led and further down says it is 940nm. A quick message to the seller should sort out which it is, 940nm is more covert so less likely to disturb the fox, however some don't bother about the red glow of a 850nm. The 850nm led will shine further than the 940nm but you don't need to photo/film a long way off .as you are using bait.
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    My mate is left handed and every gun he gets is special order, pita!
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    Good choice of rifle, i like Tikka's a lot. However i would take that rifle of yours sraight back to the shop as it has a manufacturing defect. Some clown has put the bolt on the wrong side. ?
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    It might help if you could put a trail cam over the baited area for a few nights to see what time it is coming. I try and use them as much as i can to build a picture up of individual foxes movements, it saves me a lot of time waiting for nothing. Trail cams are fairly cheap now on the bay, there are some for £35.
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    Another brace tonight, two dogs that have been feeding on sheep that have drowned in a pond.
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    You say that like it's a bad thing!?
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    Another chap i control foxes for is in the same game shooting syndicate as me. He has two other shoots one consisting of three farms adjacent to each other the other is four farms. Well we went for our monthly look around on the three farm one last night. This shoot has a total area of approximately fifteen hundred acres which is all accesable by 4x4 which ninety eight percent of my shooting is. Two of the farmers had said they had seen foxes and one of them wasn't fazed by human contact at all, infact it stood close by and watched the farmer. We took up position on the top of a hill ove
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    Correct, and i have free reign to come and go as i please on 8,000 acres because he is a friend of mine that trusts me. He has his snare line which he checks twice daily and shoots any he see's during his daytime rounds and i kill them at night, it's an arrangement that suits both of us.
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    No it isn't a .223, it is a .204 with a 20" barrel.
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