Freezing foxes

You could probably take them with a .22, but if you're wanting drop at the spot power you will probably want a .25 or even a .30. Shot placement will be more important than FPE though. Either a headshot or heart/lung shot will cut anything down if you know where to aim and have enough power.

A 9mm-.357 caliber should do it in the head or heart. Just the sheer shock would drop them dead in their tracks. Something like a Benjamin Bulldog with a Donny FL Emperor with extender and a Pitbull depinger ought to do the trick Shooting Polymags or even regular JSB pellets. No tuning required.

Head/brain shot with any cal at close range 25- yards and under DRT.

I've taken a handful with my .25 cricket shooting 34gr jsb at 870 fps. All with headshots (best is side of head between back of ear and eye). Has worked great so far out to 62 yards.

What are the laws for your location? The EU covers a wide range of countries...

I have taken yotes out to 65 yards with my 25 with a shot right down the ear canal. They flop over doa. It is pushijg 60 ft lbs though.

A BRAIN shot with any caliber that penetrates at least to the off side will drop a fox on the spot; NOT too be confused with a head shot. The two are not the same! I wouldn't trust any caliber airgun to drop a fox in its tracks with a chest shot.

Another hugely important consideration and benefit of BRAIN shots is the victim never even realizes it was shot, so is spared extreme trauma in its last moment(s). 

Stormy,

I've used a .25 FX Wildcat with JSB Kings to take 4 possibly rabid foxes from 20 to 60 yards which were wondering around in semi-urban areas out in the daytime. Because they were possibly rabid, the head had to be collected in tact to do the rabies test on the brain. So like most things I hunt/pest, I shot them in the neck and they all dropped right in their tracks. When I was a boy learning to hunt animals, an oldtimer advised me: "If he's close enough, shoot'em in the neck and watch'em drop like a sack o guts. And you won"t mess up no meat." Colorful childhood. He was right though. Even a glancing blow in the neck is enough to drop animals straight down. Without all that bothersome flopping around that happen with headshots.

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Umm, sounds like you really mean to anchor that critter on the spot where he is hit. There are two ways to do that. The first way is deliver enough hydrostatic shock that it shuts down the nervous system. You are not going to do that with a .22 AG because you can't get enough velocity. The second way is a pellet in the fuze box. A .22 that puts more than six or eight fpe on the target will do that every shot, if you hit the target. That can be a big IF but it sounds to me like you have a specific shot in mind. You already know where you are going to shoot from and where your target will be. That is a huge part of the problem solved. Get some marbles or paint balls and set your self up on your range at the distance the shot is going to be taken. When you can hit the marble nine times out of ten shots, you are ready to take the shot. Mind you missing the shot is not an option. So don't take it if you can't do it, wait for the next opportunity.

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Only fox I ever took was at 35 yards. .22 Cal Cricket Carbine Mini @ 32fpe. Shot it on tot of the head while facing me and head down rummaging for food. Dropped instantly with an almost unnoticeable shake of it’s left hind leg. I didn’t investigate because it was really mangy. But my assumption was that the pellet went into the brain and then into the cerebellum stopping all activity. If that shot isn’t possible, I would opt for the quartering away behind the ear depicted above

I would recommend the higher power from the Benjamin Bulldog .357 if you want to guarantee anchoring a fox with either head or body shots.

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Umm, sounds like you really mean to anchor that critter on the spot where he is hit. There are two ways to do that. The first way is deliver enough hydrostatic shock that it shuts down the nervous system. You are not going to do that with a .22 AG because you can't get enough velocity. The second way is a pellet in the fuze box. A .22 that puts more than six or eight fpe on the target will do that every shot, if you hit the target. That can be a big IF but it sounds to me like you have a specific shot in mind. You already know where you are going to shoot from and where your target will be. That is a huge part of the problem solved. Get some marbles or paint balls and set your self up on your range at the distance the shot is going to be taken. When you can hit the marble nine times out of ten shots, you are ready to take the shot. Mind you missing the shot is not an option. So don't take it if you can't do it, wait for the next opportunity.

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Great pics not so great text ..... Not trying to be a troll but KISS Keep It Simple... fancy fonts makes for very hard to read text on small devices 

When a fox is going towards me why do I need to shoot him in his eye rather than in between his eyes?

Do you think FX Slug in .22 at 930FPS is not enough to induce a hydrostatic shock?

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You need to shoot him through the part of his brain which connects to the spinal column. The direction his head is facing determines the entry point on the head. That's why I gave so many pictures. Many shots are fatal but not many literally anchor the prey on the spot. You have to damage that brain to spinal connection to drop them in their tracks.

Sure an FX slug at that speed should be about like shooting him with a .22 long rifle. I would not expect a .22 long rifle to stop him in his tracks with a body shot. It might and it might not. So I should have been more clear when I said, "You aren't going to get that kind of shock with a .22 AG." A body shot with a .22 Hornet at AG ranges will anchor your Fox to the spot. That is possible because the center fire .22 is carrying easily five times the energy of any AG you are likely to take to the field as it leaves the muzzle with something between 600 and 700 foot pounds of energy. You should not count upon any .22 AG delivering that kind of energy on target in a body shot if you want an instant, in his tracks, take down.

You have repeatedly said you want him frozen in his tracks. That leaves you with the head shot I explained above.

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Umm, sounds like you really mean to anchor that critter on the spot where he is hit. There are two ways to do that. The first way is deliver enough hydrostatic shock that it shuts down the nervous system. You are not going to do that with a .22 AG because you can't get enough velocity. The second way is a pellet in the fuze box. A .22 that puts more than six or eight fpe on the target will do that every shot, if you hit the target. That can be a big IF but it sounds to me like you have a specific shot in mind. You already know where you are going to shoot from and where your target will be. That is a huge part of the problem solved. Get some marbles or paint balls and set your self up on your range at the distance the shot is going to be taken. When you can hit the marble nine times out of ten shots, you are ready to take the shot. Mind you missing the shot is not an option. So don't take it if you can't do it, wait for the next opportunity.

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Great pics not so great text ..... Not trying to be a troll but KISS Keep It Simple... fancy fonts makes for very hard to read text on small devices

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In the software engineering world, where I come from, we have a rule. It goes something like this, "I will accept the data I want from you in whatever format you produce it. You will get the data you want from me in whatever format I wish to provide it." It has always worked for me.

So, your phone will not use a font which is not installed. It will select the default font instead. This font is Comic Sans. Since it doesn't work for you on your phone ...

I have an ATN Video shot from my hunt that will demonstrate BerryvillesSpook point very well (Berryville I did not mean to offend, Your data was good I was giving you a heads up that using fancy fonts that others cannot read means that data is lost to those that may need it)

I was set up to hunt hogs so my rounds where sharp nosed boat tails for head shots This Racoon kept coming in so I decided to pop him. Normally a .308 Texan at this range even a body shot would do it but because I used the wrong tool for this shot I Ice picked

https://youtu.be/6MBm6tHvrJw

I also went from a 4 inch target to a 1 inch target as far as a headshot was concerned