shooting a rifle at night is a sport for many, but involves very little feild craft, marksmapship skills yes, but actaul countryman type knowlegde very little.
if lamping with a rifle were to be banned (not someting i would wish for btw) then its my firm belif that most "modern" keepers would simply not know how to kill a fox, and in my eys this is a sad state. they would however have to cencentrate their efforts on killing bad foxes and not just every fox.
its is a very affective ,humane means of control, but does not take any consideration of survial of the fitest or a natural balanc