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Touch of snow and temperature under freezing point persuaded me and my husband to go for a hunt yesterday evening. At 8 p.m. we were sitting separately on deer stands, and waiting for some hunting adventure, if our hunting patrons hear off our wishes. Although I have never hunted a fox down and I´m still waiting for this moment, that evening I wished successful hunt to my husband more. I knew the evening before a fox had fixed his wagon on the same place where he was hunting yesterday. There were five deers feeding on grass in front of the deer stand where I was sitting, so I watched them calmly and drew my cap down on ears, because the freezing wind became stronger. However, at about 10 p.m. I caught my breath when I heard a shot from a nearby deer stand. I had a feeling that I heard a moment when a slug hit the target. I called to my husband and I found out that he was shooting to a fox but he didn´t see it branch away. I hoped that the hunt was successful and told him I heard a shot, so we would find a fox on shooting point for sure. I went to meet my husband. When we met each other, we got an unpleasant surprise. The fox dissappeared scentless. We managed to find some slots, but no drops of blood. Dissapointed we went back to our car… ••• The following morning my husband couldn´t sleep because of the last hunting experience and after he woke up, he took our bitch Brita to retrieve the fox. Freezing sunny morning brings more luck than the evening, when they saw some fox hairs at the shooting point. Brita started retrieving without hesitation on a 10-hour old slot. Only five metres from wood border some drops of blood appeared. Brita started retrieving on blood and some moments after she finally retrieved the fox and brought it from undregrowths. The fox went 70 metres after the shot in the heart. I would like to tell my husband „Good Luck!“ And I would also like to voice a real thanks to our bitch Brita z Golštýnů for master-made fox retrieving. At home we couldn´t cheat our daughter Eliška at this experience with the fox… Maybe Eliška will keep hunting and cynology tradition in our family in future, we hope….
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