ASK THE EXPERTS
Sporting Rifle’s Experts
Foxing: Mike Powell
Professional gamekeeper and foxing expert
Big game: Pete Carr
Big game hunter, author and editor of Sporting Rifle
Rifles: Byron Pace
Rifle reviewer and experienced hunting journalist
Antique guns: Diggory Hadoke
Auction regular and vintageguns. co.uk owner
Technique: Mark Ripley
YouTube star and extreme-range foxer
Optics: Chris Parkin
Target sports journalist and optics reviewer
FOXING
Q Does the weather affect foxing at all? Obviously we humans prefer if it’s dry, but in terms of actual fox behaviour, does it get easier or harder depending on the weather?
A In truth most animals are affected by the weather as much as we are. When I was young and shot foxes for a living we would be out almost every night in the winter no matter what the conditions were. We had to! We soon came to expect that in wet conditions, we would see far fewer foxes
