Out tonight

[firepower 68]

Out tonight on my regular permission and we pulled off the lane through the gate onto a tarmac side road that drops down into the fields. From the top you have a clear field of view for about five hundred yards. We stopped and popped on the fox caller. After a few minutes the lamp went on and low and behold Charlie was sat out in the middle of the field. Off went the lamp and I set up on the bi pod across the bonnet of the truck. On went the lamp and out went Charlies lamp. The shot was taken at the 180 yard mark with around a ten to fifteen mile an hour cross wind from left to right. The field has furrows and the fox had dropped out of sight so to be on the safe side we pulled to the bottom of the road hopped out and went to find it. After a short search with the battery lamp we found her in the furrow but still alive. Good job we checked. She was dispatched straight away. As soon as she had been taken care of we did a quick scan of the field again and blow me there was a second fox at around a hundred and fifty yards. No backstop and houses behind it. That one will live to see another day. The .243 has scored two for two but needs a S&B mil dot scope

[bob.243 9,798]

Out tonight on my regular permission and we pulled off the lane through the gate onto a tarmac side road that drops down into the fields. From the top you have a clear field of view for about five hundred yards. We stopped and popped on the fox caller. After a few minutes the lamp went on and low and behold Charlie was sat out in the middle of the field. Off went the lamp and I set up on the bi pod across the bonnet of the truck. On went the lamp and out went Charlies lamp. The shot was taken at the 180 yard mark with around a ten to fifteen mile an hour cross wind from left to right. The field has furrows and the fox had dropped out of sight so to be on the safe side we pulled to the bottom of the road hopped out and went to find it. After a short search with the battery lamp we found her in the furrow but still alive. Good job we checked. She was dispatched straight away. As soon as she had been taken care of we did a quick scan of the field again and blow me there was a second fox at around a hundred and fifty yards. No backstop and houses behind it. That one will live to see another day. The .243 has scored two for two but needs a S&B mil dot scope

Great read Firepower

 

Was in a similar position as yourself on Monday night, I was out with the .22-250, saw this fox at about 120 Yds. but houses behind it, tried to squeek it in a bit closer and moved my position a bit to get a better back drop but it dissapeard, but low and behold another one popped up on the brough of a field about 500Yds. eyes ablaze in the lamp, and it came rushing in to about 60Yds. but again houses in the background, plenty of open ground and good back stop elsewhere put they had to come in to range with the houses behind them, so never got this one iether, oh well another night perhaps, safety first, it's a great sport.

 

ATB, Bob.