Hunting & Fishing Nice evening on the farm hunting.

[robbobsam]

I was out lamping last night and bagged 20+ rabbits, this morning after gutting and skinning them I decided to try and bag a few of the foxes that have been increasing in numbers on my fathers land. I emptied the guts at the bottom of the valley about 150yds from a hide I had set up and waited to see what turned up.

The muntie was the first to appear, he initially came into sight at 400yds but as was working his way towards me I let him come until he was at 177yds. He got a little twitchy so I decided to put the new Schmidt to the test. The munties dropped like a sack of spuds from a high shoulder shot. (No. 13 this year).

Then as the light faded I saw charlie appear, he was only a young cub and I know there are at least 2 families of foxes with 4 cubs on the farm that I know of so I waited to see if the mother appeared, after about 45 mins the light was making it difficult to even see the young cub anymore so at 340yds I took the shot and watched the fox collapse on the spot.

 

[dubetsky13]

Re: Nice evening on the farm hunting.

Nice shooting!

 

[Shortdraw]

Re: Nice evening on the farm hunting.

Cool little critters. Where are you at?

 

[Playerz1337]

Re: Nice evening on the farm hunting.

Is that a baby deer???

 

[aaronraby1]

Re: Nice evening on the farm hunting.

its a muntjac deer. england or around im guessing.

 

[robbobsam]

Re: Nice evening on the farm hunting.

Its from the English Midlands. Its a Muntjac which is a deer introduced in the 1920's. Since which time it has really taken a foothold in the UK and is now so prevalent that there is an all year round open season on them.

They taste really good too.

 

[Advokaten]

Re: Nice evening on the farm hunting.

Nice- a small doe muntie right.

Must say it was som good shooting there.

My hat´s off.

/Chris

 

[robbobsam]

Re: Nice evening on the farm hunting.

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Swedish guy</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Nice- a small doe muntie right.

Must say it was som good shooting there.

My hat´s off.

/Chris </div></div>

Hiya Chris,

Your spot on mate, it was a doe and she was a fair size too, hanging up in my garage now waiting to be skinned. I have a lot of them around here and they taste really good, the fox was 1 cub from a family of 1 mother and 4 cubs. The others will be sorted very soon.

 

[Advokaten]

Re: Nice evening on the farm hunting.

Munties are great eating however a royal pain to skin in my opinion,

stil so worth while.

Well good shooting and should you ever consider needing a spotter,

I have a spotting scope ie a 5-25x56 PMII and a Eurpean firearms passport for the attached rifle.

/Chris