Rack in 2002 or 2004 the power had been out for 3 days, which lasted for 10 days, the snow was 2 feet deep & solid, the moon
was as bright as daylight with the snow looking more bright blue than white. My wife & myself were gassing up the generator
& a real big red fox scooted thru the front yard toward our back field without a sound of course, like he was levitating along.
Wife said there goes that rabbit killer, that's all I needed to motivate me since nothing & I mean nothing else was going
on.
I went to the back window, raised it quickly & had my CZ 22 Hornet up & ready, 125 yards at a dead run---- no come to think of it
he was stopped when I squeaked at him.
Popped him easily & the crazy thing was, the snow was so hard he slid from where I shot him more than 80 yards on a slight slope,
all the way down to our lower back road which was a real trudge just to get down there & back, he was a big RED & I got him mounted
just to remember the event & how we held up, all those days.
Oh yea, 55 grain Sierra HP, still my favorite load for fox. Been a lot more bit that bullet since then but that was my very first reload kill.
At least during this long run, my first reloading run was in the 1970's & I can't remember which was what from back then.
He is the one on the left in pic.