Woke the three kids up at dawn, the boy (8) wanted to stay in bed, the girls (6 and 10) were keen to go for a morning dawn walk.
I let the 10 year old take my .22 (I got it when I was 11 so I figured it was a good time to start her) I told her she could take sitting shots at rabbits and I would back her up with the shotty. Its the same Beretta 12g 410E sxs I posted pics of a few days ago. I had some number 4's (36gm) to take.
We were 5 minutes into the walk when a hare bolted from a boxthorn clump at full noise running away from us. It was not a .22 shot due to the speed, so I hit it with a first barrel at about 30m (once I realised it wasn't stopping for my daughter) and then it crossed to the left and I hit it again. we walked about 10 paces towards where the hare had gone down, I had time to drop two more shells into my gun and a fox, no doubt making a getaway after the noise came over a contour bank toward us. He was only at a trot about 25m away so made an easy broadside target. He must have misjudged the direction of the noise and clearly had not seen us. He dropped instantly. After this we saw two more foxes within the next few minutes, but they were outside shotgun range and I couldnt get my hands on the .22 fast enough. We tried to whistle them up, but I think due to the noise and the wind picking up they were becoming very skittish. So the whole walk only lasted about an hour.
I took some pics to share the short morning hunt with you all.
I also found these pig rootings, I will take some SG's next time.
Some pics of the country this block offers.
Check out the white foot on this fox - I have not seen one like this before.