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Post by sakorifle on Mar 7, 2016 18:03:33 GMT -5
The circle of life has started again, I've had a call from my night time foxing friend.
He has had a call from a farmer five miles away a Fox is taking his new born lambs can we help.
I have been going flatt out culling does and have harvested 96, four short of target I am pleased with that after being thirty down in January.
So tomorrow the hornet will be coming out, checked for a 150yd zero and put on duty tomorrow night.
It is the same most years but usually the foxes start killing a little later like I said in swilks post I bet they have cubbed early due to the very mild winter we have had.
This could be a busy predator culling year in the lambing fields.
Regards
Billy.
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Post by esshup on Mar 7, 2016 19:17:49 GMT -5
Billy, good luck on the predator culling!
The deer culling has really turned around for you. Good to hear that. I was really worried that you wouldn't make the target goal the way things were going in January.
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Post by saltydog on Mar 8, 2016 11:20:01 GMT -5
Good luck, and keep us up to date as usual..
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Post by sakorifle on Mar 8, 2016 13:26:08 GMT -5
well my old 22hornet is on song.
I have even loaded fifty rounds of 110gr vmax in 308, just in case it gets too windy for the hornet,its big brother can help out. lol
Batteries and torches all charged up and ready to go when i get the call.
As my hero big AL from furtakers says, time to get off the couch and put some fur in the truck.
Well, actually all we take is the tails, fur market collapsed years ago.
lol
Billy
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Post by nfalls116 on Mar 8, 2016 18:57:29 GMT -5
well my old 22hornet is on song. I have even loaded fifty rounds of 110gr vmax in 308, just in case it gets too windy for the hornet,its big brother can help out. lol Batteries and torches all charged up and ready to go when i get the call. As my hero big AL from furtakers says, time to get off the couch and put some fur in the truck. Well, actually all we take is the tails, fur market collapsed years ago. lol Billy don't eat them Billy? |
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Post by sakorifle on Mar 12, 2016 13:06:03 GMT -5
Went out last nighr but never seen a fox on the farm that is having worrying problems.
Did see a set of eyes a bit nearer home, we were using a red filter this time as this particular fox was just bolting as soon as the white light hit him.
We sat there and i put on the fox pro and went through my favourites list.
Mouse squeaker no
juvinile red fox distress no intrest
titmouse tantrum na not intrested
baby red fox distress are you joking im not coming
then i hit the pheasant distress and he could take no more, boy did he come down that field.
He stopped around 160 yds away and was going to get us on the cross wind so i levelled the hornet onto his shoulder and sent the little bullet, it was a good shot the 35 v max went in and did not come out, the fox dropped to shot.
thats one down but not the one i was after, the hunt is still on. lol
regards
Billy
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Post by esshup on Mar 12, 2016 22:24:44 GMT -5
Good shooting Billy!!!
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Post by sakorifle on Mar 17, 2016 17:54:24 GMT -5
Greetings
Went out tonight with my son Alex
Got to the field and who should be there the vernimous culprit, I told Alex to wait then when my foot touched his foot light it up .
He hit the beam foxy walked a little squeak through my lips he stopped I sent it,lights out dropped to shot from the little hornet.
No exit from the 35gr v max great bullet for foxes at night.
Then I showed Alex how to skin a foxes tail off in seconds lol
Got to pass these things on, here in the uk they are getting forgotten.
Another one has taken a lamb and ate half of it on my friends farm, I looked for it tonight as well but it was not out to play.
So it continues. Lol
Regards
Billy
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Post by bullseye69 on Mar 17, 2016 22:17:38 GMT -5
Excellent!!
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Post by esshup on Mar 18, 2016 1:26:12 GMT -5
Good going Billy!!!
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Post by sakorifle on Mar 18, 2016 5:51:50 GMT -5
 Here is a photo of last nights fox i went and took it this morning as i am on annual leave this week, on closer inspection the bullet may of exited. I never take cameras etc at night, simply because one has enough to think about safety wise in the dark without taking hero photos. I insist eveyone has a head torch on, no one moves until the shooter clearly says the rifle is empty, and no one walks with a loaded rifle, there only is one rifle and who ever has it is in charge of that particular stand. No one moves without the shooters say so. there is no cables or anything else from the rifle to a lamp, These rules have up to now kept everyone safe. unfortunstley ten years ago one of my friends broke one of the rules i suspect he climbed a gate in the dark with a loaded hornet, it went in under his chin and he paid the ultimate price he was 22 years old. Set the rules and stick religously to them. So that is the reason my night time forays rarely have photographs. regards to all Billy the furtaker, lol |
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Post by featherduster on Mar 18, 2016 10:24:24 GMT -5
That's quite a tale but where his tail.
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Post by esshup on Mar 18, 2016 10:59:03 GMT -5
Billy, I agree with you. There is no cutting corners when it comes to firearm safety, as once the bullet starts down the barrel there is no calling it back.
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Post by sakorifle on Mar 18, 2016 12:11:08 GMT -5
That's quite a tale but where his tail. I skinned his tail off to show Alexander my son how to do it. The tail is actually next door he is experimenting tying fishing flies with the fur lol Regards Billy |
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Post by moose1am on Mar 20, 2016 21:32:35 GMT -5
Did you ever think about making a recording of a lamb and using that in your game caller? Sort of a match the hatch. If the foxes are killing the young lambs then make a recording of a young lamb and or stake out a young lamb and use it for baiting the fox in before shooting the fox. This tactic was often used to hunt man eating tigers and lions by some famous big game hunters. Jim Corbett en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Corbett |
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Post by sakorifle on Mar 23, 2016 20:23:04 GMT -5
Greetings
Been out tonight seen one Fox but was not a safe shot so it walked.
I did try to call it but it turned and walked away,that has happened a few times this season I can only assume it is because the winter has been so mild they are not hungry.
Onwards and upwards be another night and we will meet again.
Regards
Billy
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Post by esshup on Mar 24, 2016 22:16:57 GMT -5
Billy:
Try a pup in distress call next time.
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Post by sakorifle on Mar 31, 2016 13:08:13 GMT -5
Greetings
I got fed up of playing come to me games with these foxes so last night I took the 308 and as I seen them we just just a check with the binoculars to see what was behind them then I let the v max go..
Shot three of them.
The buck season starts tomorrow so the only time I will have spare to go predator hunting will be weekends unless I get another lamb killer then I will have to respond.
Regards
Billy
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Post by esshup on Mar 31, 2016 22:41:38 GMT -5
Good going Billy!!!! If they won't come to you, you can send it air mail to them.  |
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Post by sakorifle on Apr 1, 2016 11:17:12 GMT -5
greetings
I have bit the bullet and bought a yukon photon 6.5x50 night vision scope with a 900yard illuminator.
well, they are on back order and i have paid the deposit they asked for to have my name on one of them.
Going to give it a go for those lamp shy foxes.
Means finding or getting someone to make a picatinny rail for my old brno hornet i know the rails are some long forgotten size but i will think of something.
Initially it will go on the cz 452 22rf then if a success i will try to get it onto the hornet.
That is plan A
plan B, sell it on. lol
All good fun trying new ideas.
regards
Billy.
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