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I thought i would nip out for a bit of foxing tonight to catch up with a couple of bother makers. First was a dog that has been taking chickens from a friend of mines son's place. I set up at eleven as it had been caught on the trail cam i lent him at quarter to twelve.Well he entered the field at eleven twenty six according to the clock in the thermal spotter, so i switched on the Drone and the Dragonfly. After picking him up with the Drone i followed his progress down the field waiting for a suitable moment. I didn't have to wait long, after making his way to the hedge he stopped to smell
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I only shoot homeloaded 32grn bullets out of both my 204s. I have managed to shoot many, many hundreds of foxes and haven't seen or had any of these so called splash incidents . I sometimes have to kill foxes at 300+ yds and do so without any drama or problems, but what do i know.?
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Yep! i have two Tikka T3 supervarmints in .204.
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Yes .204, are there other calibres??
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Well done on the fox control! SL on the subject of i/r the ruby pilled torches are ok but they emit a very bright red glow due to being only 820nm. Whilst this may not be a problem most of the time, it definately is when a lamp shy fox turns up on your patch. The fox will spot the red glow at a fair old distance and disappear quickly. I bought a Dragonfly 500mw laser i/r because the signature it gives off is very small and virtually undetectable so enabling me to kill lamp shy foxes. The only draw back with the Dragonfly is they are made by Starlight who are a really poor company to deal
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I hadn't been out foxing for a couple of weeks so thought i would go last night. After a conversation with the keeper who thought he had smelled fox at one particular farm i decided to start there. Arrived about 9.40pm and set the caller out on a fence post around 50yds away. Rifle loaded, scope checked and illuminator aligned and off we go with pheasant distress. After about 3 minutes there is one on the farm track looking towards the caller but not sure of it. I switched the Drone on and set the trigger by which time he had moved off the track into the field to my right and behind the sheep
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So the general consensus is doable but not advisable.
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I was having a discussion the other day with a chap i know about the suitability of .22 lr using subs on fox. Now i know they are regularly used in suburban gardens and the like at quite close ranges with good effect. However this chap claims a fox will drop on the spot at 100yds with a boiler room shot using subs. I just don,t know about that, never having used a .22 on fox, has anyone on here done that or is it as i suspect too much to ask of the small round?
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My 223 Tikka T3 1-12" didn't like hornady 53grn ammo, odd ones used to tumble. I tried federal premium 40grn and they were ok in it but at £29 a box 6 years ago they where expensive. Then i bought a Tikka supervarmint in .204 to try and i liked it a lot. I bought all the reloading gear for £200 s/h and very quickly found a load that puts bullet on bullet at 100yds. The reloads cost me about 40p each and i have hundreds of cases once fired from mates who don't reload and have binned their 223s in favour of 204. I sold my 223 about 5 years ago and bought another Supervarmint 204 for day ti
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If one has been used more than the other it will be a bit quieter.
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Yep! i take mine out. Better than thermal for finding shot foxes.
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Another good day on the blacks
ianm replied to David.evans's topic in Rimfire, Centrefire & Shotguns
Absolutely top drawer sport, crow bashing, you just know you have done some good every time you down one. -
Pheasant distress, rat distress and juvenile fox distress in that order.
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I went to a shoot i control foxes on, on tuesday night and caught up with a vixen that has evaded me twice before. After scanning with the n/v monocular i saw the first one about 150yds away on a ditch side. I tracked it with the drone pro and when it stopped for a crap i dropped it (top one in pic). Just as my mate had got to it to bring it back i spotted another at the top of the field. When he returned with it, the other one had moved from right to left to another ditch and was making it,s way to a bridge over it. The caller was in the next field so i turned it on hoping to draw the f
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.Back at the garden of fancy ducks.
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Good going, another two problem foxes gone.
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Nice sxs , what is it and is it a sidelock or side plate?
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17 hornet, 22 hornet, 204, 222, 223, 22.250, 243 et al , all kill foxes, i wouldn't want hitting with any of them, it would really ruin your day.
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I caught up with these two the other night hoovering pheasant poults up that were on the ground, they look like they are out of different litters to me though. The other one was back at my former neighbours where i shot the two vixens.
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I know exactly where you are coming from and if i was walking about i would probably have a lighter set up . However 99% of the time i shoot off the roof of my adapted jimny and i like the stability of the supervarmints. So much so i bought another in .204 and put a Minox 3-15x56 on it for day use.
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I wish i could but unfortunately beer has never been my forte, it makes me ill to some tune, so i just have a brew instead.
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Yes you are right, they were on the lean side but still felt heavy if that makes sense.
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Tikka T3 supervarmint .204, Drone pro x 10 with a Dragonfly laser for illumination. There was another on the trail cam half an hour after i left so at least one more to deal with this week. I need to go to the pheasant shoot first though as they are losing poults.
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Another thief bites the dust!
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I went to help a former neighbour out last night with some foxes that have been trying to get into his garden to kill his fancy ducks. He had been baiting them to a spot for a good few nights and i had monitored them on a trail cam. Anyway i was out of the house forty minutes and the job had been done, two vixens.
