- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Fox trapping
- Thread starter cyffylog
- Start date
- Location
- Ballyclare Northern Ireland
Just wondering as if I mistakenly caught a badger for a few hours I wouldn't want it to destroy the trap before I was able to release him.Probably a bit of overkill, if your going to pick on the little cute ones like @Gator does.
CopperBeech
Member
- Location
- A Welsh man lost in England
Racking up big numbers early season with a rifle, thermal and night vision is a piece of pee. And boring as feck. Totally get why keepers etc use those methods. But find sport shooters who are out oj the stubbles whacking big numbers of Cubs the size of a cat with the same gear they would have if they were fighting the taliban and posting it all over face book for w*nking rights ...... a bit sad. It’s always the same kind of folk who want to bore the tears out of you about their big gun (the Nigel from accounts type). Given the same kit my mum can knock them down just the same.
Tin hat on
Tin hat on
- Location
- leics/warks border
As long as they're killed cleanly I don't think you can use a rifle too big.
A 17HMR is sufficient, with the right ammo.
A 17HMR is sufficient, with the right ammo.
foxes aren't stupid, quite the opposite. If you want to catch one, shoot it in the trap. If you want to catch repetitively in quick succession, remove to dispatch.
- Location
- Ballyclare Northern Ireland
So your saying .338 Lapua Magnum or .50 BMG is a bit of overkill then?
Not forgetting the bragging rights about who's shot one the furthest away.Racking up big numbers early season with a rifle, thermal and night vision is a piece of pee. And boring as feck. Totally get why keepers etc use those methods. But find sport shooters who are out oj the stubbles whacking big numbers of Cubs the size of a cat with the same gear they would have if they were fighting the taliban and posting it all over face book for w*nking rights ...... a bit sad. It’s always the same kind of folk who want to bore the tears out of you about their big gun (the Nigel from accounts type). Given the same kit my mum can knock them down just the same.
Tin hat on
Have heard this said before but from my own and others experience I don't follow this line of thinking. Always shoot in the trap, better than risking a bite going bad
CopperBeech
Member
- Location
- A Welsh man lost in England
If you want real success trapping them, when they are pairing up use scent attractor along with bait.
- Location
- Cheshire
What I’m asking is how do you remove it safely, with no chance of it biting you or escaping?
- Location
- Cheshire
Good mate of mine swears by his .17HMR for foxes. Not silly distances, just good clean consistent kills.
Easy, if you know, you know!!
- Location
- Shropshire
That is the preferred methodIn my youth I seen a man lift a live active badger by the tail and carry it.
CopperBeech
Member
- Location
- A Welsh man lost in England
I’ve tailed a few of them things and scruffed plenty foxes. There are a few ways to get them out of a trap without getting bitten and without shooting them. Mostly involving tipping them into a sack or drum. There’s a much easier way but it isn’t very PC.
ollie989898
Member
Only a bloke from Northern Ireland could possibly come out with that....
Turns up for a nights shooting with a fudging Barrett...
I've had several keen shooters tell me of big numbers of foxes shot in one night and I never really knew if they were having a laugh or not. I guess with thermal vision it becomes easy to spot them even at distance.
I agree.
Bloody eedjits. Surely they know what is going to happen....4/5 years ago I shot 3 with the 12 bore behind the buildings in one afternoon after the afterbirth from a fresh calved cow. Couldn’t believe it. Dad went back that night with the rifle and shot 6. All in the same field. Next day we were talking with next door and he was proper confused. Him and the gamekeeper had been sat out the night before, 1 each end of their big wood. Shot 16 between them 9pm-2am. When we looked 1 of ours DIDN’T have a shaved leg, while 2 of theirs didn’t. About a fortnight later the neighbour caught an unmarked white van on his lane. Threatened too get violent if the driver didn’t open the van too prove he wasn’t pinching stuff. Van was FULL of empty cages. The next week we shot 18 between us.
Take them down to the Burrells re-wilding estate, I say...
And shooting the fox would get the Gun a dismissal on some shoots too...
Scholsey
Member
- Location
- Herefordshire
just ask them if they are releasing foxes and if they are do it somewhere else, foxing with thermal/night vision kit on a cf rifle is like shooting fish in a barrel these days poor bugers have no chance, there probably are places she could release them where they wouldn’t be a problem.
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
There's many a red deer shot in the Highlands with a .22LR. My first deer was a fallow stag -- .22LR. But that was 63 years ago!Good mate of mine swears by his .17HMR for foxes. Not silly distances, just good clean consistent kills.