RE: help! - first fox hunt tonight
Hi arctek. I hunt fox all the time. What I have come up with is...you need the wind blowing from you to the fox. The fox will almost always try to scent you. Every single time I have called one in, they circled me till they could get smell of me and where I was. Make sure you use cover scent. Make sure you use it right. Dont use evergreen scent in a corn field where there are no evergreens. Its just common sense. If there isnt any wind, thats good too. What makes it even more exciting is when you have two or more foxes trying to locate your calls. I hunt with a bow in a tree or on the ground and its very exciting. I had a fox last year, walk 3 feet from me. Thats no bull****. I had on my cover scent, I was sitting in a group of willow trees in a marshy area, my shot gun this time. I heard something behind me but didnt move. Then I saw it out of the corner of my eye. The fox was looking straight at me. Just be curious as what I was. And the wind was blowing right to left and he was left to me. He had no idea what I was. So he walked in front of me, and I made the mistake of him catching my movement and he started to get a little nervous. He walked about 10 yards from me as as soon as I pulled the trigger, he turned away from me and I missed him. I never seen an animal haul ass as fast as he did. I even have the same fox on tape from December of last year. I use a rabbit distree call and mouse call, mouth calls. I have never once went after him and not had him come back to me. They will always come back. These are red fox im hunting. Fox are so nosey and curious. They will work an area for hours till they find where the call is coming from. When you think their gone, trust me, their not gone, their somewhere very close to you. I thought the one I was hunting had left, so I strated calling again, I didnt see him. So just for the heck if it, I looked behind me, as what do ya know, there he was jsut looking at me, like, you think Im stupid or something, then he was gone. I went back the very next day and got him back again, but I wasnt hunting him, just calling. So anyways, you will get him eventually. Sometimes, Id rather not even shoot them, just hunting them gets me going. I love it, expecially with a bow because you have to be so quiet and move without them see you. Feed them too. They love corn. I watch them eat all the time when im in the stand. I wish I could show you the video. Where do you live at? Im from Kentucky. anything else I can help you with let me know....
Squirrel Master