He is at the taxidermist getting tanned.
howler,
many times I hunt with my dad and we do simliar, one rifle one shotgun. the rifle gets to shoot if they hang up and sit out of shotgun range. Most of the problems we run into with this situation is the fox seeing the other guy, when we are watching 2 different directions. we are getting a little better at positioning so that it doesn't happen as often.