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Photos thread -Hunting. MOD NOTE in post #1.
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Was out lamping last night and spotted this lad in a field at about 150 yards in a ditch, sc89 called him into 60 yards then I let lead fly.;) He dropped on the spot, he was as dead as a maggot when we walked over to him.
Heres another pic of the 6 month old german/english pointer pointing.:D
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Idrove to the taxidermist last night with it so 2 months time ill have pics of the finished product . yes its an eight pointer and as far as i can see it looks even enough
Nice balance antlers.
In future, if deciding to keep a head for mounting it's advisable to leave all the neck skin on it and even the skin around the brisket and top of shoulders.
This makes it much easier to mount. Your are better off to leave too much skin on it (which the taxidermist can trim) than too little.
Did the taxidermist say anything about leaving more neck skin on in future?
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Went out with Ollie and got these. He did the write-up, I don't refer to myself in the third person!!!
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Myself and Glensman went out Sat night for a bit of lamping. Glensman had recently acquired a .223 and he wanted to break it in, also I wanted to get my first fox with my new stock. To cut a long story short, we covered miles and miles without seeing an eye, so we decided as a last resort to try a farm that was very successful for us last year.
We called for a while until we spotted a fox in the distance, she then tried to skirt around to get our wind but Glensman pulled off a lovely neck shot at 190 yards. We kept calling for another while and another vixen appeared, this time is was my turn, I delivered a lovely head shot at 126 yards. Upon firing this shot we noticed another 2 foxes on the hill so with a bit more patience we managed to call another one down which Glensman dispatched at 70 yards.
Thinking this was our night over we went and collected the foxes, ranged them and had a bit of banter; when we got back to the Jeep we noticed that there was actually 3 more foxes back out on the hill. I had a chance at one while he was in some gorse bushes, he wasn't going to present a better shot so I took it; I hit the fox hard but he trailed himself down into the gorse bushes, no matter how much looking we couldn't locate the fox in the heavy cover but I know he wouldn't have made it far. So 4 foxes from this one spot and at least another 2 left for another night. A few images:
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Glensman new gun
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Our syndicate then went out today to hunt a few strips of cover close to the pheasant shoot. The first place was unsuccessful, but the 2nd place proved to be successful. I got a shout from Glensman that there was a fox heading my way, true enough a big dog fox broke cover and I dispatched it with a well placed 42g Winchester Super x Double Magnum. The next place again proved unsuccessful but the final place gave us another fox. However, the fox was pricked and went to ground, but luckily enough our excellent terrier tailed it to the set and we broke in to dispatch the vixen. It was very important to get these 2 so close to our Pheasant shoot.
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Pic of the big dog fox that I shot.
Anyway I have rambled on enough, 6 foxes from a weekend ain't bad going.0 -
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Was out foxing last Friday night with Deeksofdoom.
I recently changed my scope from a Nightforce to a Zeiss and was anxious to see what it was like out lamping.
Very happy with the Zeiss it’s very clear under the lamp and far easier to acquire the target with the lower mag.
1 Vixen shot, photos are not great taken with a camera phone.
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i went for a stalk this morning with rick, unfortunately we only saw one sika that saw us first. so as we stalked the side of the mountain we heard a goat in the wood below us.
that will do me i thought as the owner of the land that gave us permission requested that we shoot any goats we see,
we were still out for deer so we stayed high over the little wooded area where we heard the goats with the intention of stalking back threw it on the way home,
we went as far as we were going to and turned down hill and then back onto the lower wooded area. there were plenty of tracks around some red deer and some sika tracks but mostly sheep and then a lot of goat tracks. we followed them back threw the wood up and down the humps and hollows until we spotted them.
without a word spoken both my self and rick took up position, rick to the right of me on a mossy bank that gave him a good prone position and i used a tree to lean against.
there were about a half dozen of them in our line of sight but we have seen this group before and there are plenty more of them around, much to the dismay of the farmers that allow us to shoot there.
a faint whisper from rick alerted me to the fact that he was ready and i gave him the thumbs up and said you have first shot, as he was eager to blood his new moderator.
CRACK and down went the first of the goats 243 100gr to the hart, then BOOOMMMM and down went the second 95gr sst to the brain, the rast of them scurried over the hill and left us to claim our prize.
not bad we thought for two .243's
as we were basking in our glory we heard a young kid goat bleating its way tward us.
both of us picked up our rifles to give it a warm reception, i saw it as it passed behind a gorse bush denying me a shot so i moved to my right and just had my scope on it as rick let fly with his moderated tikka, CRACK... and down it went.
a perfect shot to the neck
great shooting rick and an excellent end to the day0 -
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Went out lamping last night pretty much on the spur of the moment. Had a good night and got 3, have a bag full of tails in the shed, must count them to see how many there is now, but I'ld need a gas mask.
The carbon fibre pilar & bedding job I got ejg to do for me is really working a treat.
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