Threw a big shut-out last night.......First time in a new area and I think I just picked the wrong call. It was sort of what looked like to me as a "Transition" type cover......one of those managed game lands where they stock pheasants, a combination of cultivated fields , but surrounded for the most part with woods and thick brushy draws. I was thinking greys, but the more I spooked around it was very agricultural in spots.
I went with a grey fox pup in distress for the first 4-5 set-ups and saw NOTHING, not even a blink of an eye. Switched over to a baby cottontail at a medium volume for the next sets about 1/2mile away, but I got "Mooned"......my dim light and that super bright full moon just weren't cutting it so I called it a night and didn't want to disturb more spots. I'm gonna wait for the darkest darn night I can find next time out, I just have ZERO confidence calling on such a bright night. I use such a dim red light that it was barely lighting up my boots in that moon.

Coyoteseeker,
What call would you recommend for a new area such as this where I'm not really sure what the majority fox is for that cover? I really want to start picking off reds on a regular basis, but i'll take whatever happens to be within earshot. Baby Cottontail OK? and I imagine low to mid volume at about 10 minutes per call on a calm night would be best?

I tried to force set-ups where a fox (red or grey) would have to either travel a hedgerow to me or circle out and around to another opening in order to try to get downwind of the call.