I love fox whistling A cheap tin whistle a .22 and off you go. I remember having to yell out to stop one bumping into me. Shot it at about 5 meters. Whistled one up for a mate who had never seen it done before, all I heard was him giggling as it came closer, another convert to the art of fox whistling.
Another time I was in a tree and a fox stopped right under me. He had one eye and I was on his blind side. I went to squeeze the trigger and nothing! Trigger wouldn't work. I worked the bolt and tried again, nothing. The fox was looking around getting nervous then he took off. I unloaded and closed the bolt on an empty chamber, squeezed the trigger and the BLOODY THING WORKED Lucky fox that one.

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And one of my only fox pics. Taken at the out-laws place in Hartley NSW.

Still recall my first successful attempt at fox whistling when I was about 16 . Came across a vixen and about half a dozen largish cubs . Blew the whistle and about 4 or 5 cubs came charging towards us at full tilt . Think I managed to get one with my Erma lever action .22 magnum .
Prefer a bellows type predator call to the whistle these days .

Fox are my favourite target too.

I shot my first with an Uncle who loved pommy guns and had a Holland and Holland built for him then a custom Hollis. My father used to carry on about the wasted money when I was just into my teens.
But what lovely guns.

I only ever shot one sambar with my Carcano 6.5 near Gaffneys creek way back in 1975. It was no big animal but it was a buzz at the time!

Have shot a few Fallow over here in the Wimmera including one with quite decent antlers. But as we know, there are no deer in the Wimmera and I would become a eunick if I ever said otherwise.

A lot of Reds get bagged near the Grampians but I haven't had a go yet. One gun nut i know has shot a few with the new 7 mm WSM.

He reconds they are increasing rapidly.

I just get a buzz out of getting foxes though. I guess its my can of beer (sorry, cup of tea)

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