Fox shooting thermally

To repay the generosity of a shoot owner Roy Lupton has offered to do some hi-tech foxing to get on top of some of the trickiest customers in the county. The pheasants and partridges are being hit hard on this South-of-England pheasant shoot and the keepers are having trouble contending with 'educated' foxes. And there's only one way to deal with that - night vision - plus a splash of thermal imaging too.

This film was first shown in Fieldsports Britain episode 207. To watch the whole show go to http://Fcha.nl/fieldsportsbritain207

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Here are the links to the kit used in Outfoxing:
Nightmaster 800-IR http://www.taclight.co.uk/dereelight/night-master-800-ir.html
Bushwear http://www.bushwear.co.uk/category/vermin-control/calls-and-lures/pageall
Blaser http://www.blaser.de
Zeiss http://www.zeiss.com

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Why shoot foxes?
The British red fox is widespread across the whole of mainland Britain and Ireland. The best estimate of the current British fox population is 240,000 adults in spring, to which a production of 425,000 cubs is added annually. The fox has no natural predator and for the population to remain stable, 425,000 foxes must therefore die each year.
Fox numbers need to be managed and controlled to prevent the predation of lambs, piglets reared outdoors, free range and domestic poultry. Foxes can also have a significant impact on vulnerable species of ground nesting birds such as black grouse, partridge, lapwing and curlew (Bealey, Green, Robson, Taylor & Winspear, 1999).
In order to protect such species while they are breeding, conservators and gamekeepers aim to control fox numbers, particularly from late winter to early summer. Foxes are also controlled around pheasant and partridge rearing and release pens in late summer and autumn. Overall, the direct cost to UK agriculture from fox predation

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