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Howie1968

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The other day I read where Mr. Frontier got him a fox, at my pig spot I was sitting there and I heard a bark or roar I thought it was a bobcat I had my Renegade .58 with me loaded with 100 gr 2F goex. and my cva Kentucky 45 loaded with 50 gr 3F OE .015 patch and .440 Hornady rb. I was hoping a coyote would come in. the fox stopped broadside at 11 steps I turned on my red led light so I could see my sights squeezed the trigger and down he went. I shot a tad high that close as I have it 1 inch high at 25 yards. 3 shot groups from a sandbag are the size of a quarter. didn't have camera or phone with me so I had a neighbor snap a picture love this light recoiling gun
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Wow, that is a tiny one. Mine around here are double that.
Not putting yours down, just not seen a tiny one for years.
Well done on fooling him so close :cool:
 
Wow, that is a tiny one. Mine around here are double that.
Not putting yours down, just not seen a tiny one for years.
Well done on fooling him so close :cool:
no offense taken Mr. Britsmoothy I appreciate your input, now I know of a standard the next one should be biggere. I doubt I ever shoot another I had to get at least 1 under my belt. I was in a ground blind in the dark with my red feeder light was von when he walked in I thought he was bigger. the dark can play tricks on you.
 
Wow, that is a tiny one. Mine around here are double that.

Brit, you have red fox over there but this one is a gray fox. They are neat animals that are almost tame and about 2/3 the size of a red. They can climb trees.

Here in Florida the gray fox is native but reds (and some say coyotes) were imported by fox hunters for their dogs to run.
 
Back in Georgia and then in Virginia both gray and red foxes were super abundant. They were a common sight in deer season but I never shot one. In Virginia where I lived in a subdivision our house gave way to a thickly wooded ravine where a tiny stream "flowed" at the bottom. Foxes were so thick that animal control trapped a large number of them, TWICE, because of complaints and released (supposedly) them much farther away. I could tell no difference in the population. The funniest sight was one afternoon when a small but gorgeous red fox in our front yard encountered our next door neighbor's cat. Both arched their backs with hackles raised and began a staring match. Foxy broke eye contact first and scooted around the cat and back down to the ravine.
 
I had no idea if he was a red or grey heck he looked red to me. It never crossed my mind to shoot one but given the chance I did
 
Gray foxes used to be common in Southern Illinois. I haven’t seen one here in 20 years. The last red fox I saw was being chased by a coyote. I shot several foxes when I was young. I give them a pass now, but shoot the coyotes. We didn’t have coyotes here 50 years ago, but they are everywhere now, and the foxes suffer because of them.
 
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