A Vixen gets the Game

[Cold Spring]

43-degrees this morning here in PA, the leaves are turning and thoughts get to hunting. Our grouse season starts in a few weeks and my 20 bore straight grip Sterlingworth has already moved up to the front of the safe. Her name is Vixen and she's a 1913 Fox who's served me well for many years. 28" tubes and bored Mod & I-Mod. I was out in the mountains today, checked the cabin and remembered this Red Letter scene on its steps ..... a daily limit of two birds taken nearby that morning.
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[Stan Hillis]

Vixen is a really foxy girl, Frank.

[6pt-Sika]

Darn Frank I was expecting to see a nice old Sako “Vixen” in 222 Nice shotgun though !

[mobirdhunter]

What a nice piece of wood on that little gun.

[Rick Roemer]

What a great day to remember! Hard to top that one.

[oskar]

Very nice looking Fox, , it must like you, it hits where you point it.

Here you go 6pt-Sitka.

[Frank Good]

Very nice!

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by Erich Bretschneider

Very nice looking Fox, , it must like you, it hits where you point it.

Here you go 6pt-Sitka.

Thanks is that one the 24” version or the 20” version ? I had a 24” Mannlicher square bolt clip fed Sako 222 then later I had an actual Vixen round back of bolt 222 20” Mannlicher .

[oskar]

It is a late 20" floorplated L-461 "Vixen" marked, one of my favorites for hiking in and calling predators.

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by Erich Bretschneider

It is a late 20" floorplated L-461 "Vixen" marked, one of my favorites for hiking in and calling predators.

I had a friend in Wayne County PA that’s no longer with us that hunted deer quite often with a Remington 600 in 222 . It was I think the first or second day of the season back around 2002 or 3 anyway I’d killed a decent 8 point that morning and I went with our group over to push the woods beside this man’s house . Our group consisted of me this guy his son his two nephews and two other guys . Anyway that morning he and his wife tagged a nice ten point and a nice nine point both using that 600 with factory loaded 50 grain stuff shot them both behind the shoulder . He was really happy he found part of the jackets in both deer . While the others pushed brush he and I drank beer in his den . They were big bodied bruiser bucks I’d have been skeptical to shoot them with it but those two weren’t !