With lambing season just around the corner I received a call from some farmers requesting help reducing the fox numbers.
After an impressive result on a property in that area a few weeks earlier, 4 of the neighbouring farmers wanted to engage my services to cull foxes and an ever growing rabbit population prior to lambs hitting the ground.
Word of mouth and reputation is everything, especially in rural communities.
Doing the right thing, being professional and getting results generally leads to more work and for you recreational hunters, more access.
After packing and saying my goodbye's to the wife and kids I headed off for another 3 nights of fox control.
First night was spent on a property I had been to before and yeilded a dozen foxes and handful of hares. After a bit of sleep that morning it was over to meet the new clients and familiarise myself with their properties before the sun went down.
The following 2 nights adding another 38 foxes and 50 odd rabbits to the tally.

All in all it was a very successful trip with 5 very happy farmers and a safer environment for lambing season.
The gear I'm running this trip is a Sako 85 Hunter chambered in. 223 with the Pulsar Thermion2 Pro XP50 LRF and 55gr Adi world class ammo.
My air rifle is an FX Impact M3 600mm barrel in .22cal topped with the Infiray RS75 thermal scope which was on loan to me for a couple of weeks shooting Cometa 18.13gr pellets @ 890fps.