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Blackpowder fox hunting

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09 May 2006, 13:02
tbolt
Blackpowder fox hunting
Heres a pic of a fox that came into a whistle.

The gun is a 50 TC Renegade. Do you guys use any special bullets for small game or just blast them with whatever you are currently using for big game.
Cheers
10 May 2006, 06:03
Versifier
A prb is generally the choice for small game with a big bore (flatter trajectory & greater range), but when opportunity knocks....If you have a deer load and you're all sighted in, why not?
If I were deer hunting, the guys I hunt with would be a little upset if I shot a fox, or anything else that wasn't a deer (though I think I could successfully argue the case for shooting a coyote). If I were alone I'd have a more liberal attitude.


..And why the sea is boiling hot
And whether pigs have wings.
-Lewis Carroll
11 May 2006, 19:40
Ohiosam
A few years ago in ML season after I tagged out I was doing some pushing for a friend. I started through my neighbors woods and just as I got to my propery line my buddy shot. When I got to him he'd shot a very prime coyote.

So he posts at the end of the next patch of woods and just as I walk in I jump a red fox. He ran past my buddy too but this time he missed. Some of the most fun I've had deer hunting without shooting deer!!
16 May 2006, 01:03
muzzle
Probably the best hunting experiences of my life were when I would take off with a 40 cal flintlock that I built. I'd take enough powder etc. for 20-30 shots and go out just looking for cottontails and spend an entire day out looking for them. Hell I need to do that in the next 3-4 weeks.