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A .243 fitted with a sound moderator would make an excellent fox rifle. Shooting the .243 calibre when the quarry is foxes I have various people for whom I have been doing fox control for many years, and because I know both the land and the distances involved, I know the rifle that will be best suited for the job. Palm, Shea, Sal, Mango in varying proportions], Butter Oil (Milk), Emulsifier: Soya Lecithin), Wheat Flour Mark Ripley answers) A: I’m a big fan of the .223 as a foxing round as it’s pretty flat-shooting with lighter ammunition. In fact, using 35-gr ammunition, it performs much like the .204. A good .22LR will sort you for all your small game issues, a .17 HMR bridges the gap between small game and foxes (with the right ammo and at shorter ranges) while a good centrefire is really the best for foxes. Plus a .22 centrefire can double as a small species deer rifle with the right ammunition.

Bullet placement is crucial when foxing with a .22 LR and distances need to be kept short. The perfect shot for an instant kill is either through the top of the head or between the ear and the eye. With the fox’s angle, the latter was the only option. The .223 is the most popular of the fox calibres in the UK, with most rifles chambered for it. There’s a wide selection of ammunition available at a reasonable price when compared with larger centrefire options. Mark’s foxing kit Rifles

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Much of my shooting is done at night and when using the .17 HMR on rabbits I would guess that 90 per cent of the rabbits I shoot are well below 100 yards and at this sort of range the wind isn’t a factor. In any case, when driving round in the 4×4 I never know which direction the wind is coming from anyway! For instance, in the last week we have removed a lamb-killing fox with the .223 at around 130 yards and another with the same rifle at about 150 yards. My shooting partner had one with his .243 at 225 yards and I had two more with the .17 Hornet at 55 and 110 yards. Those two were close to habitation in ‘sensitive’ areas.

Next up are the old retainers, .222 Rem, .223 Rem, .22-250 and the .220 Swift rounds. The .222 Rem is a wonderful round — sweet to shoot, low recoil, accurate and available in a wide variety of lighter weight or heavy varmint rifle configurations. With a sound moderator fitted you have yourself a quiet effective fox round to 250 yards or so and it doubles up as a small species deer round, with the correct bullets. I can only speak from my own experiences of shooting with a wide variety of calibres and I have no doubt that as is very often the case in life, a good big’un will generally beat a good little’un! Under the cover of darkness, it’s much easier to close distances on even the most cautious foxes to under 300 yards. With ranges more difficult to judge at night, I prefer to use a .223. Like the .222 and .204, it’s an ideal foxing round – they are all good fox calibres. Travelling fast and fairly flat makes for a very forgiving round. Typically firing a 50-gr or 55-gr bullet, it tends to fragment well on impact, which means it’s more humane and less prone to ricochet. It can suffer the effects of a crosswind a little more than heavier bullets, yet this is less of concern below 300 yards — with foxes typically shot around 100 yards at night.From .17 to .243, Mike Powell lines up the options to find out which best suits different foxing situations L-R: .22 airgun, .17 HMR, .17 Hornet, .223 Rem, .243 Win You’ll find 40-gr subsonic bullets from any of the manufacturers such as RWS, Eley, Winchester or CCI that will deliver approximately 95ft/lb. It is the rifle that chooses the bullets it likes, not you. No one manufacturer is a better choice than another.