Charlie wanted his angels

everypenny

I dropped my very first Fox lamping last night.
I have a 22lr CZ and fire sub sonics with a moderator threaded to the muzzle.
Went out with the brother. He'd shot before and quite sucessfully. We started at one end of a valley with a river about 5 meters accros to our right and a busy road about 350 to our left. The end of the valley ended in a large hill about 450 high which acted as a natural butts for any 'off target rounds'. (I've heard they can happen but have never experienced it myself ) We moved into an area and kept the river to our back. We tried both Vixen and Rabbit calls using an electronic caller, a disc and our hands. After about 20 mins of periodically scannign with a Dreben 120 with orange filter we saw a pair of amber eyes staring at us from the hill on the far side of the road. He moved down and you could see him working up and down the ditch trying to find a save place to cross. He must have learnt the code though cos he was across in no time and trying to box around us to get a scent. Thankfully he couldn't because of the river. He settled the far side of a ditch which ran at right angles from the river for approx 150 yards, about 100 yards away from us. No matter how we called we couldn't get him to come past this ditch for a clean ID and close shot with a garenteed backstop/butts. What we did do though was move to the edge of the ditch and corner him between us and the river, with a ditch either side of him. A quick flash of the lamp showed he was about 110 meters away from us. The gradient down to him was high though so i dialled my sights (Nikko Stirling 4.5 - 14 x 50 Mil Dot) to 70 Meters, my brother lit him up and i took the shot. Clean behind his fore left leg, lungs and heart i think cos he didn't get far but definitely lungs. On finding him we saw it was an old dog fox. Not bad for the first night out, and definitely looking forward to the next.

tfox

Congrats, first of many I hope

dev110

Congrats, I hope to do abit as well when I get back from college. Hope its the first of many

everypenny

Thanks lads,

I'm new to it all so any tips or hints on kit or methods would be great. I have a deben 120 lamp. Whats annoying me is that the bracket to the sight is non-adjustable. When its on theres no way of zeroing it to the scope which means that i'll always have to go lamping with a buddy. Although fun it means you have to share shots. :-) Any suggestions on how to modify a flexible bracket for it or anything else that can sort the prob?

Cheers.

poulo6.5

well done.
i have a cz .22lr style my self. a great gun well wear;)

sean raff

had one for years too,brilliant starter rifle and bunny killer had the odd fox.
well done on your first of many

kildare.17hmr

fair play lad first of many for ya hopefully! if i was to recomend anything it would be a LED lamp to mount to your scope, its all you need when lamping alone! I have the LED lenser p7, i find it great with my HMR, itll cost ya between 60 and 80 euro depending where you get it and if you get the accessory kit.

http://www.zweibrueder.com/ENG/produkte/html_highperformance/html_Pserie/p7.php?id=p7

You can get other LED lamps like this for less money, some are a bit better some are not but this lamp will shine further than the range of the rifle so it would be a good choice!

good thread going on the subject here
http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056117809