Coyotegods: 17 remington on fox

Hilltop,
Hi, Like you I place the pill into the body, usually into shoulder or centre of chest, I have made my views on head shots in an earlier post. I can now see how I have not been too clear, as to why I am tuned into shooting long range. Let me try to put that right!

Our foxes are predators, and at this time of year their prey are new born lambs. The ewe does a pretty good job of fending off the fox, but when she has twins or even triplets it’s a no go, especially when two foxes team against her. So help is needed, this is where I fit in.

Here’s the picture: I arrive at night on foot and check out the field area, I could be looking at a flock of 200 to 300 sheep all in various stages of birthing. A scan with the light (fitted with a green filter) and I have to locate my fella by his eyes, try it when you have got 700 eyes looking back. He could be 20m or 250m away it’s the luck of the draw, now here’s the answer to you question, “ What makes it tough to close the gap on those reds in Wales, why are the shots so far, especially at night?”. If I enter the field area, the sheep will move away from me, it causes two problems, 1. The lambs could become separated from the mother, and if they don’t rejoin, those lambs will starve! 2. As the flock moves they could well startle the fox and he is outa there. A loss either way!

So I can’t get in, and he is not coming out! Time for the magic wand, the .17 Rem with its superb accuracy, I can thread that bullet through the flock, and put him down, the sheep don’t move and I will recover the fox the next day, or then if possible. You will I am sure agree, that my .17 is a specialist tool, and I have not found any other rifle that can do the same job. Last night there were two foxes working a few fields apart, same scenario as above but I was able to recover both, and as promised took some piccys for you all to view.

The pregnant vixen is shown against the .17 to give some scale, the dog fox was measured and was 3ft 8ins tip to nose, both foxes had a skull cap width of 5ins (English measure) fine pair of killers. Both unmarked, and in fine condition. The vixen was shot at 174m, the dog at 220m.

So as you can see my fox is on a mission and if not controlled will do immense damage. I hope this will give you an insight, as to where I am, in the scheme of things.
Doc.

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