Home | Ezine | Forums | Links | Contact
NitroExpress.com: Last evening...

View recent messages : 24 hours | 48 hours | 7 days | 14 days | 30 days | 60 days | More Smilies


*** Enjoy NitroExpress.com? Participate and join in. ***

Hunting >> Hunting in Europe

Pages: 1
André
.333 member


Reged: 28/06/04
Posts: 254
Loc: Brussels (Belgium)
Last evening...
      #137578 - 19/06/09 06:19 PM

While stalking Roebuck, I crossed the path of a vixen on her way back from shopping. She died so suddenly that she had no time to release what she was bringing back to the hole : 2 field mice and 1 slow worm !



--------------------
André
---------------------------------
3 shots do not make a group, they show a point of aim or impact.
5 shots are a group.


Post Extras: Print Post   Remind Me!   Notify Moderator  
Der_Jaeger
.375 member


Reged: 09/10/08
Posts: 607
Loc: SE Pennsylvania
Re: Last evening... [Re: André]
      #137583 - 19/06/09 10:00 PM


Wow! That's quite a catch she was bringing back to the den. She must've killed one, dropped it while she killed another, and yet again, then gone back to pick them all up. I bet she'd make a good retriever for me in the duck blind!!

Good shooting, too!

--------------------


Post Extras: Print Post   Remind Me!   Notify Moderator  
9.3x57
.450 member


Reged: 22/04/07
Posts: 5521
Loc: United States
Re: Last evening... [Re: Der_Jaeger]
      #137584 - 19/06/09 10:15 PM

Andre, what caliber rifle?

Nice shooting, too. Good to see one less predator!

--------------------
What are the Rosary, the Cross or the Crucifix other than tools to help maintain the fortress of our faith in Jesus Christ, the Son of God?


Post Extras: Print Post   Remind Me!   Notify Moderator  
André
.333 member


Reged: 28/06/04
Posts: 254
Loc: Brussels (Belgium)
Re: Last evening... [Re: 9.3x57]
      #137587 - 19/06/09 10:36 PM

Sauer 202 in .30-06, pushing 165 Sierra GK / N160 / 60.5.

--------------------
André
---------------------------------
3 shots do not make a group, they show a point of aim or impact.
5 shots are a group.


Post Extras: Print Post   Remind Me!   Notify Moderator  
Paul
.400 member


Reged: 28/08/07
Posts: 1031
Loc: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Re: Last evening... [Re: André]
      #137592 - 20/06/09 12:11 AM

When I was a kid my father and I used to walk around the paddocks with a spotlight, looking for these varmints near our lambing ewes. One night we found a fox that had taken one of twins. It stood near the mother and the other lamb, eating its kill. Every now and again the other lamb would come close and the fox would make a half-hearted lunge at it.

Dad sent me around the light beam to shoot it with our farmer's gun - a bolt-action Mossberg. On the still, frosty air, I could hear crunching on the bones long before I got up there. At maybe 15 yards I stopped and squeezed off with a rifled slug I'd loaded without telling Dad. Hit in the spine, that fox was blown over more emphatically than anything I'd seen then or have since.

But Dad was not pleased. 'What if he'd run? You might have missed!' Yeah, I thought, but we didn't need the dog to find this one.

So what is the point in context of this thread? Well, that fox still had dinner in its mouth, too.

Edited by Paul (20/06/09 12:16 AM)


Post Extras: Print Post   Remind Me!   Notify Moderator  
crkennedy1
.375 member


Reged: 05/12/08
Posts: 501
Loc: Utah
Re: Last evening... [Re: Paul]
      #137599 - 20/06/09 04:22 AM

What a great photo, the food-chain in living color. The only thing missing is a nut in the mouses mouth!

--------------------
DOUBLE or NOTHING


Post Extras: Print Post   Remind Me!   Notify Moderator  
Kalunga
.333 member


Reged: 16/06/06
Posts: 328
Loc: Germany
Re: Last evening... [Re: crkennedy1]
      #137653 - 20/06/09 09:26 PM

Weidmannsheil Andre ! Here in Germany it is illegal right now to shoot adult foxes, because they are still caring for their youngsters. We may shoot the young ones of course but adult foxes are not open before late July or so. But I think in the wilderness no predator cares about these kind of rules too much !

Kalunga


Post Extras: Print Post   Remind Me!   Notify Moderator  
Pages: 1



Extra information
0 registered and 25 anonymous users are browsing this forum.

Moderator:   

Print Topic

Forum Permissions
      You cannot start new topics
      You cannot reply to topics
      HTML is disabled
      UBBCode is enabled

Rating:
Topic views: 2581

Rate this topic

Jump to

Contact Us NitroExpress.com

Powered by UBB.threads™ 6.5.5


Home | Ezine | Forums | Links | Contact


Copyright 2003 to 2011 - all rights reserved