Scouting pay's off!
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Scouting pay's off!
For weeks I have been working a patch of mine after some fox's, four there was. I got one a few weeks ago but could not catch up with the others.
After work yesterday I visited with a small flash light and rifle just after dark, no sight of them, again!
Suddenly the vixen let out a howling sreaming blood curdling cry not far away, made the hair(whats left of it) stand up ont' back o'neck! A dog fox was trailing her barking too all be it drowned in her screams. Never saw them! They moved off into some oaks and I could here them fighting and such in the distance.
Being off work today I made sure I was back before light today. As it got light I bumped into the third dog fox, he was carrying a tree guard! I have never seen that before, he was clearly frustrated, walking in circles and to and froing, I could not get a shot because of the dense birch twigs as I looked down on him and eventually he moved on.
I headed him off but never did see him again but I made a stand and stood it out, it soon became apparent I was not alone in that larch plantation and to my shock after fifteen minutes there they were, the vixen and her big dog. Ever likely the other dog could not get a look in he was huge!
She flirted with him right in front of me, offering herself to him and springing about with total abandenment, scooping mouth fulls of larch needls as she pranced. It was quite a spectacle!
Time for buisness, as they moved off luckily she gave me the first shot, the rising steam told me she was done before I recovered from recoil, just as I finnished working the bolt big boy came running back. He stopped behind some cover, for a tense moment I thought he would take off but he didn't, he stepped out and I had to squeeze a shot through a little three inch gap between the larch. After the second ball of steam it was done,30 and 40 yards or so, heres the snap.
One of those special moments that make it all worth while.
Nath.
After work yesterday I visited with a small flash light and rifle just after dark, no sight of them, again!
Suddenly the vixen let out a howling sreaming blood curdling cry not far away, made the hair(whats left of it) stand up ont' back o'neck! A dog fox was trailing her barking too all be it drowned in her screams. Never saw them! They moved off into some oaks and I could here them fighting and such in the distance.
Being off work today I made sure I was back before light today. As it got light I bumped into the third dog fox, he was carrying a tree guard! I have never seen that before, he was clearly frustrated, walking in circles and to and froing, I could not get a shot because of the dense birch twigs as I looked down on him and eventually he moved on.
I headed him off but never did see him again but I made a stand and stood it out, it soon became apparent I was not alone in that larch plantation and to my shock after fifteen minutes there they were, the vixen and her big dog. Ever likely the other dog could not get a look in he was huge!
She flirted with him right in front of me, offering herself to him and springing about with total abandenment, scooping mouth fulls of larch needls as she pranced. It was quite a spectacle!
Time for buisness, as they moved off luckily she gave me the first shot, the rising steam told me she was done before I recovered from recoil, just as I finnished working the bolt big boy came running back. He stopped behind some cover, for a tense moment I thought he would take off but he didn't, he stepped out and I had to squeeze a shot through a little three inch gap between the larch. After the second ball of steam it was done,30 and 40 yards or so, heres the snap.
One of those special moments that make it all worth while.
Nath.
Psalm ch8.
Because I wish I could!
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Nath those are some beautiful furs ya got there. what are you going to make them into?
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Nothing, hidden from view they are all bust up! These monkey's have been killing free range chickens! There was a contract on them!3leggedturtle wrote:Nath those are some beautiful furs ya got there. what are you going to make them into?
N.
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those are big foxes, too. Our little gray foxes don't get that big around here.
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Great going! Hard to double on foxes I imagine
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Nath,
I have heard it said that with coyotes you have to be careful how you hunt them because if you don't kill them the first time you call them in you have educated them. It then gets harder.
I was wondering if foxes are the same way, in other words are they that smart?
I have heard it said that with coyotes you have to be careful how you hunt them because if you don't kill them the first time you call them in you have educated them. It then gets harder.
I was wondering if foxes are the same way, in other words are they that smart?
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Nice going Nath
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Yes, just the same. So many fox's around here are "educated" due to a lack of good shooting.Rusty wrote:Nath,
I have heard it said that with coyotes you have to be careful how you hunt them because if you don't kill them the first time you call them in you have educated them. It then gets harder.
I was wondering if foxes are the same way, in other words are they that smart?
I have been after a particular vixen for three years now elsewhere that has learnt what's fake and what's real! Finding one that stands in a flashlight is rare also!
N.
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Because I wish I could!
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Good shootin Nath.
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Was the photo taken at the kill site? Who took the photo?
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Well done sir! great picture.
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Great post Nath, your description of events was so vivid I could I could almost imagine I was stood behind you!
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A good hunt!
That's a lovely patch of woods there. What's the firearm?
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Nice Foxes. We got us a couple gray foxes this year.
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No, I moved off a little to find a tree stump to put the camera on.BC in TN wrote:Was the photo taken at the kill site? Who took the photo?
Your welcome for a walk any time Gamekeeper, I'll find something to ping atgame keeper wrote:Great post Nath, your description of events was so vivid I could I could almost imagine I was stood behind you!
Nath.
Psalm ch8.
Because I wish I could!
Because I wish I could!
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Nice shooting Nath ! C'mon over here and show me how to hunt them Foxes, and Coyotes. I could use some Pointers !
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nice,
but i thought you meant something else.
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but i thought you meant something else.
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careful what you wish for, you might just get it.
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And here I was wonderin' if it was "Cub" or "Boy" Scouting, and how in the heck you got it to pay off...? Now, I see, it was Kit Scouting! Congrats!
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I imagined your foxes as being of the smaller size variety. Those are large fox by any standard. Seeing a fox is an accomplishment, they make coyotes seem clumsy and noisy in the bush. Shooting a double score is impressive.