Foxes never cease to annoy, frustrate and amuse me all at the same time. like last last year, I was after a couple of troublesome feral dogs. Set up near a creek and just off a cattle track, breeze in my face etc. and a young fox came to the Foxpro bird call.
I'd reckon it was last years litter (2015) and picked her up about 50yds.out; I'm using the 12 gauge, loaded with SSG and SG shot. The fox happily trotted up the track, looking left and right and didn't seem too concerned. About 20 yds out, stopped looked left and pounced onto this tuft of grass, sniffed around and ran around it snapping and scratching the grass base, stopped, sat looked around and just seemed it couldn't remember what it was doing, so I gave a little soft call on the whistle and this seemed to jog it's memory and back up the track it came, got to about 5yds off, stopped and looked straight at me but just couldn't quiet figure what was not right, turned and trotted back down the track to the tuft of grass and pounced on it again.
A couple of Magpies turned up and started to dive bomb the fox and off down the track it went.I mentioned this to the owners and they wanted the foxes cleaned up; too many chooks missing.
A few days later with the dog problem solved And over the next week I cleaned up 5 foxes with the 12g using BB from along the creek but the little Vixen wasn't one of them.
i must learn how to operate the video, calls, rifle and shotty all at the same time. This is the challenge for 2017.
These are some of the tools of trade...
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The foam, i use on a small mirror and works well on cats too.