Have you heard of one of these? Probably not as I believe it to be a purely West Country peculiarity...........it's a bit like a Macnab...... but smaller!!

This is how it occurs..

Went out last night to try and remove a couple deer from a fruit farm. Having set up a nice 'Kanzel' or box hide, it really is not a hardship to sit for a few hours and watch the natural world doing it's thing.

The farmer had been complaining of rabbit problems - so I also took along a .22 to oblige.

Here in the UK we tend to use these little rifles with a moderator and subsonic cartridges. Net result: a shot that makes no more noise than a twig cracking. Accordingly, I'm often able to polish off a few rabits while waiting for Roe to appear.

Half an hour passed and the first rabbit appeared. A shot resulted in a carcass about 70m away.

Ten minutes later a fox came sniffing upwind and was about to pick my rabbit - when a round from the moderated .270 dropped it cleanly.

No more than two minutes elapsed before movement drew my eye to a young Roe buck emerging from a nearby copse - a further shot from the .270 dropped him where he stood.

Reloading proved worthwhile, as within 20 seconds a futher roe buck emerged - doubtless wondering what the noise was about.

The moderator spat once more - resulting in a second deer on the ground.

About the time I realised I was out of ammunition for the .270 - movement called my attention to the opposite side of the field. To my chagrin, a second fox was now pelting off down the field - with my rabbit in its jaws!

So there it is - the 'Macnib'!

Rabbit, Fox and Deer - taken from the same point within less than quarter of an hour.

Anyone else had a shoot resulting in a mixed bag to remember?

Rgds Ian

Waidmannsheil Ian, sounds like you had a great evening, good shooting!

I use a Blaser BD880, which gives me a 20ga over a 30-06 w/a Hornet on the side. Early one morning I poked a fox with the hornet, within 5 minutes a boar comes out to 'investigate', so I plugged it with the '06. At which time it tore off like a bat back down through the brush, kicking out a group of boar, which then ran out in front of me and stopped just long enough for me to shoot another. Long story short, within 15 minutes I had 2 Boar and the fox down, WH Dom.

Hi Ian & Dom,

Yeah, the mixed bag that got away! A McCry!

Over/Under rifle, which I had to have and realize I don't want it or use it! 7x57R under a .12 gauge (bore for the Brits).

Had my nifty little Tuetonic ammo wallet which neatly holds three rifle cartridges (177gr. TIG) & 4 shotgun cartridges (2 slugs and 2 nickel plated #4's). Organization is important!

04:30.....getting light......just as my butt hits the bench in High Seat, look up and see a Fox at @ 125 meters in an open field - mousing. Drop Rucksack and grab Boomer; 7x57R speaks. Fox down. Re-load, in process see movment to left of downed Fox; another Fox. Switch Field of Fire left, 7x57R speaks again. Dead Fox (or so I thought). Re-load, still fixated on the spot where the supposedly dead Fox is located. Fox is now standing in same spot where I just shot - Yipes, musta missed or wounded.....Boom! Fox down.

Want to re-load and realize all three 7x57R cartidges from wallet expended. Frantically search jacket pockets and rucksack to no avail. Sounder of Wild Boar go trotting by one of the dead Foxes. Only ammo available is .12 Gauge slugs but don't trust the Slug/shotgun bore/Scope combo at anything over 50 meters. Watch helplessly as 7 Wild Boar trot peacefully across an open field.

Net result, three Dead Foxes and no more rifle ammo, depart for home at 04:40, arrive home at 04:50 with thermos flask still full of hot coffee....smoke a cig w/coffee and go back to bed.

Congratulations IanF,
you really did a good job, but you make me to remember the joke between a fisherman and a hunter.
The second one, that has to hear everyday the exagerated stories of the friend, once decided that it was enough, and begun describing a very bloody hunt made with any kind of gun (from pistol to bombing plane with nuclear bombs). to any living creature that he meets (from insect to humans). When fisherman, horrified by the descriptions, after a while tried to stop him,
the hunter quietly said: Ok, I'll stop, but the whale has to return to be a trout.
Luckily is difficult to make a massacre, as fantasized by the hunter using a fishing line.
But the doubt is that you have a fisherman friend

Hi,

Last time Ian came to mine he sat in the seat and shot a fox. At the shot a couple more foxes came out to investigate and bothge were dispatched with the same 270...

On the first day of this Fallow season I was out with another mate. He shot a pricket trying to neck it as it ate my cover crop, (or what there was of it...) It lifted his head and the bullet went into the body cavity through the front ofthe chest. It was a fatal shot but the deer ran 20yds or so at full pelt until Rick put another one in it to be sure. The buck dropped mid-stride into the thick grass at the edge of the wood landing on a crouching fox that jumped out to get out of the way. Rick sent another 243 his way missing him as he ran putting nother round into the buck...

It was no surprise he was happy for me to take the deer!!!

Rgds,
FB

Sounds like a great day in the field.

Sounds like you guys need to carry more ammunition!!

Did something similar to your McNib someplace near Fairford last year. Shot one roe kid, a fox and a muntjac from the same high seat within slightly more than an hour. Great fun! Not easy to do something like that at home in Norway!