Fox Collectors

Well sort of....

Every spring like clockwork I get a batch of kits under my shed. They are darn cute. Thankfully they are usually gone just a few days after first showing themselves. 5 kits plus the vixen on Sunday morning.

You must not have a high number of coyotes around, Roger. They will kill off the reds when they move in strongly. Greys can survive because they can climb trees to escape. In the early 80s we were covered up with reds. I trapped them and greys hard, for fur. Since the yotes came and flourished I don't average seeing one red per year.

SRH

Stan, funny you should mention that.

Last year a yote got on them good and I found a few sets of back legs and a complete body minus the guts.

Reds just can't take the pressure from coyotes. Greys are tough little scrappers. In my experience reds tend to like more open areas. Greys, the more wooded places. I've seen greys up in persimmon trees. They're climbing little scofers.

Good pics. SRH

Reds just can't take the pressure from coyotes. Greys are tough little scrappers. In my experience reds tend to like more open areas. Greys, the more wooded places. I've seen greys up in persimmon trees. They're climbing little scofers.

Good pics. SRH

Nice pics Romac
tjw

The farm I hunt in the Northern Shenandoah Valley used to be full of Reds. Now they are long gone. Yotes have wiped them out. I've got 5 trailcams set up on the property and all I see is deer a few turkey and lots of yotes. They are smart suckers. I've only gotten one picture during daylight hours and bunches and bunches of pictures taken at night. Between the feral cats and the yotes, I'm surprised we have any turkey at all. deer numbers have also dropped in the past few years. packs of yotes are a deadly combination for wildlife.

I blew up that first picture and liked the close up of the kits playing.

Would make a heck of a trigger plate on a custom Fox.......

Great pics, Rog!! Currently, we have two vixens travelling through our yard several times each day. I believe one has a den under my neighbors front porch. Surrounding woods are loaded with yotes. Hope to catch sight of some kits soon. Reds are so amusing to watch, especially when on the hunt. Easy to see why that game bag vignette was chosen for the "Fox Gets the Game" catalog series!

Like Ian Tyson wrote --

The Coyote is a survivor
rekon he's got to be
lives in the snow at forty below
and at Malibu by the sea

Cowboy gets high on a bottle of rye
coyote gets drunk on the moon

ROMAC wrote:Stan, funny you should mention that.

Last year a yote got on them good and I found a few sets of back legs and a complete body minus the guts.

From my deer stand I watched a pair of reds hunt the field almost every day I hunted. One day I climbed into the box blind and looked down the alley I had bushogged and there was something golden in color. Walked down there and there was one of my two reds with only the guts ripped out. Knew what had gotten him.

Funny story about a red. A neighbor about a mile away had yard chickens. One day he heard a ruckus, looked out and saw a red after a hen. By the time he ran outside the fox had caught the hen. He ran towards the fox, which then dropped the hen and ran. Hen was dead, or badly hurt, so Jesse picked the hen up and started towards his porch. Fox ran up behind him, snatched the hen out of his hand, and took off across the field with it!

Jesse should have had a tightly choked AHF loaded with 1 1/4 oz. 4s, eh?

SRH