Rained all day here,

[Nath]

So I oiled the sticky pull start on the chainsaw, put the Buell's batt on trickle charge, nursed Tia as she has been sick yesterday for 24hour and loaded some 308. I found h4227 works good @30grn under a Speer 110grn HP.
I was hoping to try for a bird before dark on a short hunt with the mending dog but it's still chucking it down outside!

Any way had some good shooting this week, last Sunday I took two fox one hour before dark. I waited next to a wood to thick to get in and it allways holds fox. Sure enough near pheasant roosting time they made their move to try and catch a late supper. Vixen first at 22 yd and shortly after the dog appeared at 97yd at the end of the ride. I stopped him by yelling and as he looked my way I just could not get steady on him but when he ran back from where he came from I swung through and fired. I had no idea I had killed him untill I got there. I was pretty pleased with the event I can tell ya!

I had Wednesday of work to go beating on the Christmas shoot and a good time was had by all.
Three fox's were seen and one shot. One of them came walking down to 20ydsto Tia and me without a care in the world!

Thursday I took Rob lamping for fox with his 270, we saw 5 and took 2. This was by driving very quietly and using a red light. The first one was called in and taken at something like 75yds, a classis heart shot.
It lept in the air and made a 40yd dash, it's last. (dog fox).
The second, a vixen was sighted down wind from lying cattle getting a warm from the cold westerly and hence no shot!
We crept the little Suzuki from the southeast and using Robs new range finder got down to 180yds, at that I swung his side facing towards her and shut the little quiet engine off. After a pause I started a squeal, this made her come towards us and away from the cattle at full pelt. It took two yells to stop her at Robs request and well you know the rest! 114yds the range finder said she was when she floated off to the great pheasant fields in the sky.

While we were out we used Robs new range finder to check the distance he made a shot on a rabbit last summer. We thought it was 450ish yds back then but we were wrong! The device says 555yds
He missed with the first shot but with my advice connected with the second shot. Thats a bloody good way!

Looking forward to Boxing day, we are spending it with good friends and need to get a couple of rabbits for them, time for some 9422'n soon

Still rain'n

Nath.

[RKrodle]

That is one long shot Nath. It sounds like you had a pretty good week, hope the rain stops soon for you and Tia comes to full recovery.

[TedH]

That's a heck of a shot on a rabbit! Sounds like you're having too much fun with the foxes.

[WinM71]

Snowed all night here (New Hampshire), about 8"-10" to blow out this morning. Another 6"-8" due tomorrow. White Christmas to be sure. Time to get in some time (a/k/a/ therapy) at the loading bench.

[kimwcook]

Thanks for the post Nath. Always enjoy'em. 555 yds. that is a long shot. And, for a target the size of a fox, even a big one, that's a good shot.

It's 0 degrees Farenheit here this morning with a slight breeze. The sky is clear so it's a brisk one. I've got to replace some belts on the wife's car outside. I don't have a shop yet. We'll see how I take this. I'm not 18 anymore boys.

[Old Savage]

Probably a big rabbit

[Nath]

Phew Kimwcook, I would not like to change them belts in that temp. Can you run the engine some to warm things up some?

Just to clarify, the rabbit shot took two shots and me spotting last summer on a windless evening. The other night we were able to laser the tree we were under back then from where the rabbit was.

Yes TedH there is always the loading bench or cleaning guns, there's nothing on the fools lantern that comes anywhere near to that!

Nath.

[marlinman93]

Snowed all night here, and so far all day! Supposed to snow through the night, and then turn to freezing rain tomorrow! Hope our flight gets out Sunday AM!

[KirkD]

Nath, you are fortunate to have such nice weather. We had a howling snow storm all day yesterday. Today, it took me about 45 minutes with the snowblower to clear my lane. The temp this morning was -14 degrees C. Another snow storm is forecast for tomorrow.

[Nath]

Phew guys, I have got it good really then.

Good luck with the flight Marlinman.

The weather report here indicated rain stopping for three, they got it wrong. It was a quarter to three when it stopped I grabbed the Greener and a few shells and took the mending dog up the fields.
Tia put two pheasant up and I missed both Oh well the dog seems back on form and thats good enough.

Happy snow blowing!

Nath.