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    Only use the 1st stage to imitate a fawn/kid, the 2nd stage is the terror cry and won't get them running in to see what the danger is. The call isn't that short, it lasts about a second i'd guess. I'd be interested to know how other people get on with the calling as it's all self taught at my end, there's probably better methods but no-one seems to know that much about it and if they do they don't let on their secrets. I asked the same type of questions being asked here but went out and learnt by trial and error in the end as no-one seemed to know what they were talking about, either that or
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    I'm no expert on calling them but I've had best results from calling in woods or on the edges of them-I watched a doe this morning moving along a hedge out in a field and tried the call but there was no response at all, they just don't seem to go for it out in the open. You can get them to run straight in to around 5 /10 yards inside woods at times. I use the buttolo (apparently the cherrywood call works as well but i've never tried it) and use the fie 3 second pause pattern that's in the sticky for calling roe at the top of the stalking section on here. I rarely get a result using the call
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    That looks really good mounted like that, I like those shields with the inlet for the medal and the head's not bad either.
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    He was full in velvet so there was no colour, it wasn't my boiling! Also there are no points given for colouring/beauty or weight with munties, it's all to do with size/eveness.
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    I took the munty I shot at an rta a few weeks ago to the Midland to have it measured for a taxidmist friend who wants it mounted as a display on his stall, it made a silver medal, missing gold by 0.1 point-can't get much closer than that! I didn't want it as there was no fair chase and no good memories attached so I took it along with the frozen skin over to his last night, he is a happy chap. Here's me with it cleaned up and the medal at the Midland, I was pleased as althoug it was an rta it shows the genes and habitat are there to produce good animals. : Since then I can't stay
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    Adamthomas is spot on, there are no real restrictions on how/where you store your ammo but they're not keen if you do something daft like leave in in the porch or on a windowsill on show, just keep it in a commonsense place..
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    You will find ammo is more expensive and that the crack from a magnum will make it too loud to shoot big bags of rabbits. I got a centrefire (.22-250, didn't want a rimfire at the time) on my 1st application with no mentoring conditions on it, it all depends what you feo is like, just apply and see.
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    Jog on dickhead, why bother posting on this section? Lurchers on foxes is now illegal, rifle shooting is sport as well, dogs are not the only sport you know (and yes I have got a working lurcher). In answer to the question asked: .243 for foxes-gives you versatility for deer if you want to get into that later, spend as much as you can on the scope. .22 for rabbits-cheap rounds and cheap setup, deadly on rabbits (and hares fence hopper).
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    Just got in from foxing at a release pen where they are very lamp shy due to the neighbouring estate selling their lamping, had the same as you, missed with the 1st off the sticks at 170 ish, made the 2nd shot count at 282yds though . The 2nd fox was in the same field off sticks at around 180yds, both little vixens, one this years cub, 1 last years.
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    I agree - superb animal, what a fantastic head. Never shot one myself (work in progress )but that is certainly the biggest head i've seen. Do you have a side on pic? Just wondering if his canine's were intact or had they broken off? I don't know what it would make, I have never seen one anywhere near as good as that on my land and I shoot several, it must be a medal of some sort i'd expect. I do have a side on pic but the canines are obscured by grass, they were not particularly big but one had slight tip damage that looked old to me as it had coloured over. Canines seem to be common
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    Here's a munty I shot last night when I was out lamping foxes, he had clearly been hit by a car and was in some discomfort, when I picked him he had joints the size of golf balls and was clearly infected with both front legs broken. Upon gralloching, the kidneys were yellow, the spleen an unhealthy grey and the lymph nodes were swollen and brown. What a waste of a beautiful beast, I have certainly not seen anything of this quality on any of my land, the antlers are 4 1/2" and have a large girth. What made it worse was the bloke I was shooting with said "oh yes, there was a deer hit by a car
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    Thats an interesting malform, did you notice any damage to the carcass that could have caused it?
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    That's a cracking head remmy.
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    Good post, have you tried using probe wipes? I use them for knives and general kit then use virkon for the back of the vehicle as a scrub. The probe wipes easily fit in a roe sack so you can use them after bleeding and again after opening up the cavity to prevent contaminating inside the carcass. They come in a tub just like baby wipes but they are bactericidal. You can get them on ebay if you're interested.
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    No worries steve, glad you've got it sorted, I ended up using winchester 55gr ballistic silver tips for foxes and munties and 95gr silver tips for Roe, 1" high with the 55gr at 120yds and without altering the zero it shoots the 95gr level with the bull but about 3/4" to the left. Most of my land is foxes and munties only but if i'm out for Roe, I chamber a 95gr and have the mag full of 55gr in case I bump into a fox at range. I have taken munties with the 95gr and carcasse damage was not too bad. My T3 was used but as new as well so I didn't have the chance of sending it back to the factory
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    You might not believe me, but I have the exact same rifle and really struggled with it, it wouldn't group any ammo and I spent a fortune trying all sorts of different types. Luckily, in the end I had a mate who had had the same trouble with his T3. I had tried ammo through my rifle, then shot the same through a steyr and they grouped well from the steyr but not through mine, I then tried my mate shooting my rifle as I was starting to think it was me, but no, his groups were as wide as mine. I had always shot a remmy 700 until it was shot out and it was on the nail every time so I was becomin
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    Chuck them in the dead pit, or hedge them if they're well away from where anyone will find them.
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    I borrowed it off a mate and it is a good read, a lot of the content is going over old ground if you've done a bit but if you're pretty new to lamping with centrefires i'd highly recommend it. Everyone will learn something from it, no matter how long you've been lamping. If I remember rightly the bloke who wrote it put some videos on youtube, his name is robert bucknell so a search on there might be worthwhile before you shell out on the book to see what you think about his methods. I don't think all his methods are perfect but then again no-one's are. He certainly shoots a lot of foxes so
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    The EA will only grant trapping consents in certain areas and for certain reasons, they will dole them to most applications out down south but you will find they are not given out so readily in the north.
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    Some stallholders were packing up in disgust halfway through the 1st day, it was just about the worst gamefair i've been to. A complete waste of money and not at all as it was described on the website. Everyone I spoke to will not be going next year and have told as many people as they can not to bother either.
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    Consider whether you're ever going to have a go at driven shooting as a lot of the more formal shoots don't approve of semis or pumps so that might rule those out for you. Semis are good if you're not going to do any driven and obviously go for a 3 inch if you're doing a bit of goosing, I shoot a pump nearly all the time, they very rarely go wrong (jam etc which can happen with a semi) and can handle quite a bit of abuse in a truck, it doesn't take long before you don't realise you're pumping it and they're not that much slower than a semi. The other reason I got one is that I do a lot of la
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    Just got in from the gamefair, really disappointing, I would say don't bother to anyone thinking of going tomorrow, I might as well have just set fire to £20
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    Stunning
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    No they don't, I suppose I meant the tests themselves are not about trophies not that the people who do the test aren't interested in them. They're just a proof that you can do something to a recognised standard, nothing more.
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    Would have thought IF things where that bad an accident would have happened before now, and any of the dsc courses will not make anyone into a good shot.( just how many times in a day can you do the shooting test) but you want it as you will be getting good money from them that Have to do it. Its been said above this is for the some folk to make more money, its got nothing to do with the deer. how much is a driving test by the way, does it stop accidents and fools killing or inuring others. people have been stalking and shooting deer for lots of years with very few accidents , al
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