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<blockquote data-quote="Waffen" data-source="post: 98676" data-attributes="member: 4311"><p>I've seen some nice stories so far, I fear mine will not even hold a candle to them.</p><p></p><p>Mine took place about 3 years ago, I was out on our ranch shooting varmits out of our Pecan trees before the harvest. I was in my truck with a spotlight trying to catch raccoons eatting pecans, I had shot about 50 that night with a Ruger Mini-14 ranch rifle, it had a Simmons Whitetail Expedition 4-12x42AO scope. Obviously not a real serious rig. I was getting ready to head back to the house and was crusing back across an orchard when I noticed another set of orange eyes in a tree. I scoped the animal to find out what he was, I thought it was a raccoon and was about to take him, about that time the animal tears out of the tree and starts tearing *** out of there. Once he hit the ground I realized it was a mature red fox. At that point the chase was on. I floored my truck and headed after him. He soon made it to a large creek bottom that was about 15 feet deep and I had lost him. I just took a wild guess and drove down about 1000 yards to an area where I could cross the creek. All the while I'm driving about 45mph in pecan orchards. I came up on the other side of the creek to see him in a feild trotting along. He knows i'm after him when I shine the light on him. He was headed for a neibhoors fence about 250 yards away and I knew I had only one chance. I turned the spotlight sideways and rested by gun between my thumb and the spotlight handle, and took a deep breath. I took one shot and he tumbled headfirst while in a dead sprint. I was amazed. I know in 1000 years I could never redo that shot, It had to be blind luck knowing the accuracy of that Mini-14, but hey it was still my most memorable.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Waffen, post: 98676, member: 4311"] I've seen some nice stories so far, I fear mine will not even hold a candle to them. Mine took place about 3 years ago, I was out on our ranch shooting varmits out of our Pecan trees before the harvest. I was in my truck with a spotlight trying to catch raccoons eatting pecans, I had shot about 50 that night with a Ruger Mini-14 ranch rifle, it had a Simmons Whitetail Expedition 4-12x42AO scope. Obviously not a real serious rig. I was getting ready to head back to the house and was crusing back across an orchard when I noticed another set of orange eyes in a tree. I scoped the animal to find out what he was, I thought it was a raccoon and was about to take him, about that time the animal tears out of the tree and starts tearing *** out of there. Once he hit the ground I realized it was a mature red fox. At that point the chase was on. I floored my truck and headed after him. He soon made it to a large creek bottom that was about 15 feet deep and I had lost him. I just took a wild guess and drove down about 1000 yards to an area where I could cross the creek. All the while I'm driving about 45mph in pecan orchards. I came up on the other side of the creek to see him in a feild trotting along. He knows i'm after him when I shine the light on him. He was headed for a neibhoors fence about 250 yards away and I knew I had only one chance. I turned the spotlight sideways and rested by gun between my thumb and the spotlight handle, and took a deep breath. I took one shot and he tumbled headfirst while in a dead sprint. I was amazed. I know in 1000 years I could never redo that shot, It had to be blind luck knowing the accuracy of that Mini-14, but hey it was still my most memorable. [/QUOTE]
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