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Carl, Dom, Pete, where are you ??? Started with some feral cat and fox stalking ... taking the opportunities to learn things to the kids about games, tracks, prints, hunting or simply lying on the ground in the dark night and admire the stars in the sky ... The ruger number one and the TSX's worked pretty good. I'm trying to hunt with a treestand but this makes me feel like a piece of drying biltong ... We have to hunt those so late in the night that even a quality X56 scope is barely not enough to see the target. WHat's up in your parts of Europe guys ?
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Not much on my end - to busy riding my desk... A boar and two bucks. Thx for asking and hope all is well.
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Go Ruger Go ...
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Was that a juvenile fox or is that the general size? No matter if it was a juvenile, they grow up and then eat a lot of sheep!
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The second one ? Yes it was weaned and hunting alone but it was born this year. A pretty small target for me at such a range.
They aren't problem for sheeps but for small game and birds, and also roe deers fawns when they're just born. We have so many of them ...
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Then it was a great shot congratulations. I was trying to compare the size of that one to a jackal. How big do the foxes become when mature?
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Adult males weight something like 15 to 30 lbs, as far as i remember those I saw in Nalibia they 're about the same size as jackals, but they don't have their pack chasing big game habit.
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Thats very interesting indeed about packs chasing their prey.
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Am I wrong about th� jackals ?
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Am I wrong about th� jackals ? No, jackals are about the same size. I have not seen them chasing prey as a group because they mainly scavenge or catch small things like insects, mice, birds, rabbits and baby animals.
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I saw jackals seriously chasing a springbock in Etosha. I was told they were able to chase wounded, sick or weak big games and track them t'il they can't run anymore.
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I will not doubt they can do it in areas where food is scarse, like Etosha. Maybe they also do it over here and I have just not seen it. I have seen a warthog chase a cheetah but that was not because the warthog was hungry!
Have also seen a cheetah chase a jackal. Maybe it was for fun that he chased the jackal or maybe he just did not like jackal. It was funny to see how happy the jackal seemed when the cheetah stopped chasing him.
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8 were in the cornfield, 3 of them taken
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Good job. it looks like they (the boars ... and the corn fields too ) are especially (far too much) abundant this year in Wallonia, what about Germany ?
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Good average I'd say.
Boar on the right had 80 kg at an age of 18 months - but that is nothing unusual either.
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they call me jungjager, just completed hunting school today!
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Congrats Mossbergman. How long do you have to wait to get your licence ? Was an extremely cold day today in the european capitol city of huting (I mean St Hubert of course) but a very successful drive.
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Three driven hunts from November 1st to 3rd, I participated handling my dogs. Sorry for the crappy pics. Day 1: 7 fallow deer, 41 boars, 10 roe deer, 2 red fox Day 2: 21 red deer, 75 boars, 6 roe deer, 4 red fox Day 3: 4 red deer, 49 boars, 8 roe deer, 6 red fox
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