Looked back!

[Sausagedog 7,381]

One one place I've been playing cat and mouse with a fox for a few months now.

Seen him a few times, at least once he followed me but I couldn't quite see my sights in the evening light. Nearly as he came into me mouse squeaking and I was just able to make the sights out at 60yds but he made me just before I fired.

He had followed my trail out of the forrest, I had a feeling and waited but never got the shot.

Skip forward a few weeks and while stalking fallow we bumped into each other.

He ran away then turned uphill but stopped to look back. 

In the murky light I lined up the sights and sat him on top of them. At about 80yds he just dropped out of view.

[BenBhoy 4,706]

Welcome back mate, been a poorer section without you. 

 

 

 

[Sausagedog 7,381]

2 minutes ago, BenBhoy said:

Welcome back mate, been a poorer section without you. 

 

 

 

I'm never hard to find, up the fields or in the woods mate.

[FOXHUNTER 5,020]

1 minute ago, Sausagedog said:

I'm never hard to find, up the fields or in the woods mate.

What a nice piece of ground

[foxdropper 17,092]

Looks nice fallow ground too

[foxdropper 17,092]

On 25/12/2022 at 18:54, Sausagedog said:

One one place I've been playing cat and mouse with a fox for a few months now.

Seen him a few times, at least once he followed me but I couldn't quite see my sights in the evening light. Nearly as he came into me mouse squeaking and I was just able to make the sights out at 60yds but he made me just before I fired.

He had followed my trail out of the forrest, I had a feeling and waited but never got the shot.

Skip forward a few weeks and while stalking fallow we bumped into each other.

He ran away then turned uphill but stopped to look back. 

In the murky light I lined up the sights and sat him on top of them. At about 80yds he just dropped out of view.

I used to think along the same lines mate ,might be different here but there’s rarely one fox left or one fox that knows your movements .Unless it’s a distinctive coat or a limper then it’s just a fox .The place I do there’s a fox ,or so I thought that’s IR shy .The other night I had 3 run from the IR but I had two of them when they stopped to look back .I missed a fox ages back that is understandably IR shy but the other two ,not a clue .There’s a couple that are call shy having called two braces and shot one from each so there’s two more that know I’m trouble .I surprised a fox round a corner last night by a dung heap that took off like his tail was on fire and was still running up a bank two fields away .

Theres a bad limper too that can run like a greyhound if he knows I’m about but his time is probably up soon as he’s on trail cam as regular as clockwork .

Good work on the fox mate but if it’s like here it’s never ending .

[Wolfdog91 6,268]

Good to see you back SD ! Been missing you and all them classy guns if yours

[Sausagedog 7,381]

42 minutes ago, Wolfdog91 said:

Good to see you back SD ! Been missing you and all them classy guns if yours

Classy! Cheap old outdated junk more like.

[David.evans 5,323]

Arrr SD 

that’s not true I think we all read your outings with a touch of jealousy with your guns , me personally would love to shoot one off them 

atb mate

[Sausagedog 7,381]

Been testing a topsy turvey Valmet for a few days now.

I don't like 26" barrels or topsey turvey guns as a rule but wow, this one comes up spot on every time and follows through. I've taken pheasants, crows, pigeon and squirrels with it and not paid for it yet!

[si brown 8,486]

4 hours ago, Sausagedog said:

Been testing a topsy turvey Valmet for a few days now.

I don't like 26" barrels or topsey turvey guns as a rule but wow, this one comes up spot on every time and follows through. I've taken pheasants, crows, pigeon and squirrels with it and not paid for it yet!

That’s all I use now sd…

old 26” Miroku with fixed 1/4 1/4

good gun for roost shooting and using steel for the geese. 
not missed my auto one bit and I certainly don’t miss scouring the fields for spent cartridges  

[David.evans 5,323]

Lazy git SI

[foxdropper 17,092]

On 28/12/2022 at 10:00, Sausagedog said:

Been testing a topsy turvey Valmet for a few days now.

I don't like 26" barrels or topsey turvey guns as a rule but wow, this one comes up spot on every time and follows through. I've taken pheasants, crows, pigeon and squirrels with it and not paid for it yet!

Just keep your eye on that following through at your age mate

[shovel leaner 7,648]

Good to see you back posting SD . An O/U ? I’m not saying anything.

[Sausagedog 7,381]

1 hour ago, shovel leaner said:

Good to see you back posting SD . An O/U ? I’m not saying anything.

Well......