Good things come in threes

Anyone who shoots foxes will tell you that things don’t always go to plan. Try as you might, you can’t kill every fox stone dead in its tracks – so it pays to have put in the practice with your rifle so you can put things right as quickly as possible. One fox I shot recently was a good example of that. My first shot wasn’t perfect, but by staying calm I was able to swiftly put things right.

I was running round in the truck one evening and headed down one of the tracks on the old airfield. I spotted a likely suspect well over 500 yards away in an adjoining field, so I immediately changed course and drove round to a spot downwind where I could check with the thermal. Nothing. The fox I’d seen was clearly on the move, and had kept moving, so I headed back to the airfield to continue my rounds.

Shortly after that