Getting rid of foxes question

[Polarbear]

[Fat Angry Scotsman]

[BTTD]

Guy i used to work with had a probablem in his back garden, in a built up area, not countryside. He got in touch with a pest controller, cost him £60 for a guy to sit in his back garden in a hide for two evenings and shoot them with a .22 rifle.
Guy was fully insured, and had appropriate licences.

[Islander]

[Nobby the Bastard]

Annoyed because I accidentally startled Badger tonight on my front garden whilst he/she was snuffling around on my front lawn and didn't have a camera with me.
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[Fat Angry Scotsman]

[mentalboy]

I'd suggest that a shotgun is not only a better tool for a moving target than a rifle, it's probably easier to get a permit in the UK for a shotgun than it is a rifle. However, as has already been noted, unless you have a back garden sized and located in a place such as my mother's then it isn't advisable to be waving any kind of firearm about.

And just for Nobby, taking shots with a camera is always the best course of action with badgers. Miss them with a firearm, they can get proper pissy, proper quick and just one of them sounds like a freight train bearing down on you.
Disclaimer: I was out keeping the local rabbit population in check, not taking pot shots at old Brock.
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[BTTD]

From what the guy I worked with said, the pest control guy set his hide up, put food in front of a back stop and then waited. He basically set up a very controlled situation where he was shooting a near stationery target 20 yards away with expanding .22 ammo.
You're not going to use a .243 in a residential area, or try and hit a running fox with a shotgun.
OP, call a pest controller and let them deal with it.

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

Deal with what? The foxes are making a bit of noise at night (close tne windows) and sometimes annoy his cats, so it’s the death penalty? FFS! Let ‘em be.

[BTTD]

[Fat Angry Scotsman]

[DaddyStu]

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

[Fat Angry Scotsman]

[Easy-X]

[tatters]

[Nobby the Bastard]

This evening it was a cub eating peanuts dropped by birds from the bird feeder. The cats next door were completely uninterested and my dogs didn't even bother waking up.

The guinea pigs in the back garden are still safe within their run.
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[Easy-X]

[tatters]

[Nute]

If you are out in the sticks a .22LR might be fine, but over here in a built up area the chance of a ricochet would be unacceptable (at least to me). I’d trade noise for lower bounce risk and use a .17hmr or just go with a centre fire. I know pest controllers who use .22 without problems.

I’ve seen lots of people have a go away from built up areas with a .22 and over 30m not kill the fox cleanly, their enthusiasm exceeded their skill sadly.

Prior to the advent of the .204 I had a .20 Tac built, still have it and use it for foxes. Brilliant round, and you can now get brass for it rather than having to make your own.

[Polarbear]

If you're happy to kill urban foxes for disturbing your siesta in my view you are on par with the hooray Henrys with their dogs and horses who do it for fun as well.

Just my view,
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[Nute]

I’m doing it on farms. Fox hunting with dogs and horses is not an effective way of controlling them and in my view is cruel so rightly banned.

[Nobby the Bastard]

Farmers needing to get rid of foxes indicate poor animal husbandry.
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[Nute]

Have you seen what a fox can do if it gets into a duck or chicken enclosure, or a pheasant pen or even amongst lambing sheep?

[tatters]

Foxes/Coyotes/Wolves etc cause problems for livestock/pets but one of the worst pests for the environment here in Canada is the Beaver. They devastate trees and cause flooding by damming waterways.

We shoot them out in the open or when they surface in the water for air (.17HMR/.223). And blow up the lodges with tannerite.


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