Long Range Foxing & Varminting in the UK | Element Optics Global Hunting, S1E3 

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You'd get your pants on quick if your girlfriend's husband shows up!

@@teacheng3795 Ha Ha I would get them on faster than you dropped that fox. 😂👍

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It’s certainly a beautiful part of the country. I hope your health improves, all the best, mark

@@260rips Thank you Mark.

Hell of a shot.

Do you interest in pistol shooting? I heard it’s legal in NZ.

Good morning Mark (NZ Time). Back when I was twenty and still using air rifles and shotguns on the farm, I got interested in black powder and had a SxS Pedersoli percussion, but I also had a BP ML dueling pistol (legal without a licence as you will know). I couldn't hit a barn door from the inside 😄, so No, not interested in pistols. But yes, we are still allowed to own and use pistols here in NZ, but the restriction are there and you can't hunt with one, all shooting has to at a registered range. Range regulations have been tightened up a great deal here. I just turned 70 and treated myself! I sold my SH Tikka T3X in 243 Win (it had gone off the boil) and I bought a Tikka T3X Aspire in 243 Win, but I transfered the set trigger from my old rifle T3X and fitted side QD sling mounts and a short rail under the forend, for a QD bipod. I have an Arken EPL on top. But it doesn't like ammo I reload, so back to ladder testing. Today I'm testing different bullet seating. Where do you seat yours? I was hunting with a black powder muzzle loading patch round ball rifles (54&50) for a while, but I was finding it harder to stalk into a range where an ethical kill was possible. I had taked quite a few Fallow and some Wallabies with it before selling them. I then changed to the Tikka and have not looked back since. Goats and Fallow are my favourite, as I can carry them out of the bush.

Thank you! Look out for videos on the shooting show and shooting & country tv as well 😉👍

@@260rips Already subscribed matey. I like the air gun show you’ve started doing too, smashing the rats 🐀 👍

Element nexus, I had an nxs and sold it in favour of the nexus, just my opinion 👍

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Hector, Mark goes over some of his kit here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Dx755shesHc.html He skips the actual rifle build, though. From memory it's built on a Rem 700 action rebarreled to .260 Rem by a UK custom builder. I can't find the vlog where he talks about it, but it's probably on his own channel 260rips.

Yes I think I’ve gone over it a couple of times in the past on the 260rips channel but here’s a quick run down! So yes as stated it’s a custom built 260 rem built on a rem 700 blueprinted action with a jewel trigger set at 1.5lb. It has a 24” semi varmint Bartlien barrel with a 1-8.5 twist, Mae t12 scout moderator, accuracy international folding stock, atlas bipod topped with a element nexus 5-20x50 scope and one piece Sportsmatch mount. Ammunition is handloaded 143 grain eld-x bullets over 41.7 grains of n160, lapau brass and federal or magtec primers.

It’s a custom built 260 rem

Good luck hope it goes well for you 👍

more of not taking shots you dont know you can make under the current conditions. If you cant judge the wind well don't shoot at game on a windy day. practice on paper/steel/etc until you know what your shot will do. distance doesnt make a shot unethical, lack of skill for the shot does. this man does not lack the skill.

​@@robertmuir734 If according to you longer distances do not cause more crippled animals (when executed by skilled hunter/shooter), than you simply do not know what you are talking about. You kind of stated, that his groups on paper target remain the same size...at any distance. If you admitted, that his groups would grow in size with longer distances, that you would also have to admit, that the probability of crippling the animal is also growing with longer distances, no matter the level of his skill. Of course good shooter is able to make ethical shot at longer distance than an average shooter , but everyone has it´s limit. When you see him happy that he managed (this time)..., it means he was shooting beyond his limit already, where 10 shots out of ten would be perfect like in this video. I know it is tempting to try it, when you see a fox at long distance. On the other hand I am almost 100% sure, that there is no such a hunter on this planet who would not experience some misses as well as woundings only... Certain percentage is OK. What is that level ? 70% 80% 90% I do not know. I only wanted to emhasize, that we could be even better hunters, if we would manage to get closer without being noticed.

sure guy. whatever makes you fell better and sleeo well.

@@robertmuir734 I did not want to offend you. (I hope you do not feel my message that way). But am I wrong, if I say, that groups are getting bigger with distance as percentage of crippled animals?

@@robertmuir734 Please, read my message once more, I corrected it later.... My english is not very good, I tried to explain my point a bit better, when I corrected it later....

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You don’t have a clue what your talking about. This is pest control to stop foxes killing your livestock. There is nothing worse than arriving to a field to find lambs have been killed.

Yes regularly. I watch all manner of songbirds, hares and other wildlife and enjoy seeing them, this is one of the reasons I shoot foxes and crows as both predate songbirds and other wildlife that I would much rather see on the farm. The other reason is to protect the livestock on the farm which is why I am able to shoot here.