The perfect calibre?

Over the many years I’ve been shooting foxes I’ve used a considerable number of rifles and calibres, and these numbers have been increased by my review work even further. I am sometimes asked what is the best calibre for shooting foxes, and to be perfectly honest this is an almost impossible question to answer. As I have said many times, virtually any rifle from a 12ft/lbs air rifle up to a .243 Win will, under certain circumstances, kill a fox. So selecting the “best” comes down to a mixture of things such as range, prevailing weather conditions, the type of land and possibly above all, the shooter’s own ability.

Of course you discount such items as air rifles as being fox suitable even though some, especially FAC rated models, will kill foxes. Equally, rimfires will all kill foxes and I use them myself where close range fox work is carried out around farm buildings and in noise sensitive areas – but again they are in no way what could be termed fox calibres.

“As the saying goes “a good big’un will usually beat a good little’un!””