Rifle.Scope recommendations

sonnybill

Hello lads,

I’m having issues with grey crows and foxes lambing .. have shotgun but the grey crows seem to smell the metal and impossible to get within range !

What rifle /scope combo would ye recommend or where in west of ireland or website should I be looking

Thanks

clivej

sonnybill wrote: »

Hello lads,

I’m having issues with grey crows and foxes lambing .. have shotgun but the grey crows seem to smell the metal and impossible to get within range !

What rifle /scope combo would ye recommend or where in west of ireland or website should I be looking

Thanks

17HMR will knock them over. Put a good 6-24x50mm on top and that would make for a great set up. CZ have a new range of 457 rifles out now, and can be got for about the €500 price.
A good scope would be the Nikko Sterling Diamond LR, not to expensive and good glass.

minktrapper

clivej wrote: »

17HMR will knock them over. Put a good 6-24x50mm on top and that would make for a great set up. CZ have a new range of 457 rifles out now, and can be got for about the €500 price.
A good scope would be the Nikko Sterling Diamond LR, not to expensive and good glass.

Out of curiosity which 17 HMR bullet are ye using on foxs and what distance is it effective to.

clivej

minktrapper wrote: »

Out of curiosity which 17 HMR bullet are ye using on foxs and what distance is it effective to.

I don't have a 17 HMR rifle, Have the .223 for foxing. And 3 .22lr rifles for other sports.
But from all reading I do the 17 HMR is what you need for the grey crows.
Sure a .223 would do you as well.. A great calibre for the foxes.

Rows Grower

Had the .22 handy last night when I spotted this vixen from the front door trying to figure a way in to the chickens and turkey. She ran first but stopped and turned for a hand squeak and a single CCI standard velocity 40 grain did the trick.

That's the 3rd vixen in the last 3 months I've got with the .22 within 80 yards of the front door and before that had no fox trouble here for 4 years, they're everywhere this year.

Feisar

Rows Grower wrote: »

Had the .22 handy last night when I spotted this vixen from the front door trying to figure a way in to the chickens and turkey. She ran first but stopped and turned for a hand squeak and a single CCI standard velocity 40 grain did the trick.

That's the 3rd vixen in the last 3 months I've got with the .22 within 80 yards of the front door and before that had no fox trouble here for 4 years, they're everywhere this year.

A friend of mine outside Tullamore says they’d bait you out of it down there.

Rows Grower

Feisar wrote: »

A friend of mine outside Tullamore says they’d bait you out of it down there.

I thought the 18lb vixen I got a few months ago was big but here's one of the biggest ones I've seen in a while, shot not too far from where I am by a local hunter from slightly over 290 meters with a 70 grain Sako.

Some fox, but what a shot to remember.

Post got moved into this thread so I should add it was a Hawke scope.