AusVarmint

Learned my first lesson in airgun hunting this arvo,walked down to the dam in the light drizzle only 100 yds from the house but its got a few scrubby spots around it so i sat down back against a big iorn bark tree lowered the bream of my hat and started to whistle well within 20 saconds out of the corner of my eye comes this fox bolting through the grass down behind the dam he goes.i give the whistle a break for a few seconds and nothing ,raise the rifle ready to go .begin blowing and over he comes full pelt at me 50yds 30yds 20yds i call out HAY 10yds ,4yds i lower the gun and HAY again thinking hes gonna eat me .He hangs a hard left but a quick blow and he stops at 20 odd yds ,bang or pwet which ever you prefer with an air gun and i hit him between the eyes and a little to the right,he went down like a sack of spuds but 2 seconds later he was up and im watching him sail over the hill so my smile didnt last long.how many of you have shot foxes with an air gun where exactly does the pellet need to go... Im thinking it was the little to the right that hurt me..

I'm guessing you probably hit him on the brow just above one of his eyes, their skull is pretty thick there and bloody hard as well! Rest assured he has a pretty good headache (you no doubt knocked him out) and tonight he'll be resting a good concussion. If you're going to head shoot with an air gun face on is not a good look as you'll most likely struggle for penetration! You'll need to wait for them to look away from you and aim just below the ear and you should not have any problems. The other alternative is head on aim right between and just above where the front legs join the body to give you pretty much a good heart shot but a bit risky with limited power and wounding is more then a high probability. HTH

PS:- When I was shooting "a lot" of foxes (and I mean a lot...30 a night was not uncommon) I had my .17 rem blow up on eyebrows on a number of occasions and quickly learnt not to "face" shoot.