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    Game for a fox

    Feb 06, 2020 6 minutes
    Credit: Ger Bosma / Getty Images

    At the end of the shooting season I’m usually lucky enough to be invited on the beater’s day pheasant shoot on a farm on which I control the foxes. This is an informal shoot where only maybe 20 or 30 birds will be shot, but is always a great day out with good company on some of the most scenic ground I have the pleasure of shooting over.

    Aside from the small ‘family and friends’ shoot, the farm is mainly involved in beef and lamb production as well as some arable. It’s during the lambing season that my services are most needed – with the farm running a zero tolerance policy on foxes, I keep a tight rein on them when there are lambs in the fields or poults in the release pens.

    The farmer and one of the farm lads also keep a watchful eye, and will usually shoot and trap a

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