Broken the curse... Pink mist and bone chips

[Yokel Matt 918]

Been having a right mare for a while with the fox's - The odd miss is acceptable and good for a bit of piss taking but after a while you can't help but feel like a liability It really doesn't help when you miss one at 60 yards and the person you're with then goes and drops it at 200 .. not to mention all the recent posts on here of lads cleaning up. After missing yet another sitter having been confident of zero it was time for a rethink. Working throught the usual drill of bedding check, barrel float, mod allighnment and all that bollocks it became glaringly obvious that the mounts were pissed after maybe a bump or something with some screws right down and others lose. Long story cut short (too late) it was shooting 3" high and 1" right at 100 meters. After taking it off and re-seating it I was finally happy and put it back in the cabinet.

 

Whilst doing some diy in the new pad I saw a fox out in one of the cut fields so decided it was payback time, and, still in my decorating gear and trainers nipped over the garden boundry and down the hedgerow. The fox had gone by the point so I decided to get down on the bipod, give it a few minutes and then have a call.

 

 

The fox emerged from a copse around 250 yards away, I had a call and it promptly ducked back in the hedge, I persister and it re-emerged further down the hedgerow and closer to me coming in at a run totally committed. I stopped it at 50 yards with a grunt and head shot it

 

Ok... so not the hardest shot in the world but they all count

 

 

and one for those with strong stomachs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited August 23, 2010 by Local

[dave1372 83]

Whether it was 60 yards or 360 yards .....it's dead thats all that counts ....and it was an exceptionally clean kill, so great shooting as far as I am concerned

 

:clapper:

Edited August 23, 2010 by dave1372

[martin 332]

AT BLOODY LONG LAST..... ........WELL DONE BUD!!!

 

Martin

[Yokel Matt 918]

Very... very long last mate

[hw100sniper 2]

Well done in getting yourself back to killing charlie Local ,hope youve got your confidence back

[FOXHUNTER 5,020]

That will work wonders for the self-confidence now as a few misses in a row really does your head in

[Yokel Matt 918]

That will work wonders for the self-confidence now as a few misses in a row really does your head in

 

[foxdropper 17,092]

Proof is in the pudding old chap .These Wiltshire foxes can smell a lack of confidence a mile away mind .Glad to see the rifle has come good .