Out hunting for a rabbit or two.

I saw this checky little bugger so aimed just above his ears and hit where I hoped. I think he is dead.

Ross

when shooting for skins useing a .220 swift or .222 we aim right on the end of there nose because the bullet blows up in there head and doesnt leave the result that you got.
but nice shot anyway i like the pic

So i take it the fox dropped right there????

Nope. He ran about 150 yards then I had to hit him with the 150 gn projectile from the 06.

Then Drew also fired about 10 rounds of BB into him.

Then, I think he was dead.

Sambar1, you are surely bull-----g me. When I shot for them with the skins back in the late 70s and early 80's and was using the 17 Rem, I never thought about hitting them in the nose.

I guess if one fox is 300 yards away plus, I could have, I guess should have. Blow his nose off I mean. When you are freezing to death, the 170 SL ain't lighting up the country that far out as it should, blah---. And to hit a target about 2 inches by 3 at the max! and the head is always moving at any stilumii......

You are a better shot than me.

Honestly though, next time I have my 204 out hunting, I'll take his nose off

Or are you having a lend of me.

I don't think you are having me on. Thinking about it.

Sorry for being a pain. BUT again, to aim for and hit his nose at the ranges we shoot them spotlighting..... often, I have trouble working out which WAY their head is pointing at 300 yards. The clouds, the mist, the COLD! And you aim for their SNOUT, nose or whatever. SHIT.


I really enjoyed hitting the rabbits then this bloke.

Friend your foxes are very similar than ours we shoot them almost daily from the back of the trucks with spotligths,we use 22lrs,a cz223 and a custom 243 ,sometimes my cz308with fmjs ,at long distance we put the scope between the eyes the only part you see at nigth at long distance ,but foxes are hard to put down a lot of times i used my dogos to recover lung hitted foxes they run 100 mts and they dye but you lost them ,i coulnt shoot a nose of a foxe in my life ,but i supouse it could be done .Juan

,i coulnt shoot a nose of a foxe in my life ,but i supouse it could be done .Juan[/QUOTE]

I've never hit a fox in the snout and at the ranges i shoot them at, i doubt whether i could. I don't think an instantaneous kill like the one above would be the result.

GBB,
A few years back I was on my mates cattle/sheep station near Whitecliffs.
The sheep were lambing & as a result the wiley red ones were out in force.
We were spotlighting on the first night & spotted 2 sets of eyes amongst the sheep right on the edge of the powabeam (200mt roughly).
I identified 2 foxes eating a newborn lamb, we were only getting flashes of the eyes because the foxes were too busy eating their fresh kill & only keeping an eye on us in case of danger.
I whistled to get their attention, as soon as I had his eyes (it turned out to be a him, big set of balls too) in the scope I touched off the .308.
I`m waffling on I know, anyway we retrieved him & decided to skin him as there wasn`t a bloody mark on him.
My mates nearly shat themselves laughing along with proffered comments ranging from I scared him to death or he died of old age waiting to be hit yarda yarda yarda, I`m sure you`ve heard it all yourself.
When skinning him we found the 130 gn Taipan hollow point under the skin just next to his asshole with a wound channel the entire length of his body.
Further inspection showed he had lost his front teeth. I shit you not, I had hit him in the front teeth & the slug travelled the full length of his body to come to rest within a couple of millimetres of fully exiting just next to his asshole.
Now, I`m not telling you this to brag about my exceptional marksmanship, but merely to tell a story in line with the wonderful photograph you have shared with us.
Incidentally, there is only one thing I love to shoot more than foxes.
Can you guess ? I`ll give you a hint they go meooow.

I leave for Kendall river station next Tuesday for a 5 day pig hunt. Now I AM bragging about that !

Cheers for now & thanks for the pic.
Morton

like i said we 'aim' for there nose not saying we hit it everytime!
we mainly use 50gr v-maxs surprising the difference it makes to the hole in the back of there head if you hit them on the nose! using a fixed 12X leopuld with really fine cross hairs it all makes the differnce!
we were shooting up to 20 foxes per week for skins so it payed off to experiment a bit to find the least damage.
we also used a 240 blitz spotlight shines a long way but we never shot past about 200m on foxes, we stretched it out on roos though.

another 'secret' is shooting off the back of a ute we use a back of wheat or oats to rest off its quick and very steady

Its nice to see that we do the same here in Argentina we put a bag of sion bean or corn in the roof of the trucks too but i believe for the photos that our foxes are bigger .Juan

do you rest the bag of wheat on the roof?

Make it a bit interesting going flat knacker after running foxes, wouldn't?

yeah half a bag of oats straight on the roof doesnt normally push the roof down. the bloke i go with doesnt normally run them down if they get away you just get them next time.
the bag does tend to slide around abit but a sheet of that grip mat stuff fixes that

another bloke i hunt with has just bought himself a new holden 1tonner with traction control being a primary producer him and his son both have 12ga autos doesnt give much hope to the fox these days there arnt many that get away.

Good to hear, mate.