cocker3 Posted October 21, 2010 Report Share Posted October 21, 2010 just wondering if any one else has had a drop in fox numbers (not a bad thing )but i have been out lamping since harvest time (mid august)and have seen very few foxes about in a usual year i shoot 10-20 on stubbles but this year i have only shot 6 and seen 10. i have spoken to a few keepers around our area and they are saying the same (they just aint there )and had a word with sako from aberdeen and he is the same i am begining to wonder whats happened could it be that as we had a hard winter last year (snow on the ground form december to late march )is it this has some bearing on there youngs survival rate (food ,cold ect)and on foxes in general of the 6 i have shot 1 was a cub 1 old vixen 4 older dogs so has any one else seen a drop in numbers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy. Posted October 21, 2010 Report Share Posted October 21, 2010 (edited) Sorry to rub it in, but I've seen a huge increase in foxes. We are at opposite ends of the country, mind you. Edited October 21, 2010 by Billy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cocker3 Posted October 21, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2010 Sorry to rub it in, but I've seen a huge increase in foxes. We are at opposite ends of the country, mind you.if you need a hand and all that i am suffering with drawals Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy. Posted October 21, 2010 Report Share Posted October 21, 2010 if you need a hand and all that i am suffering with drawals Keep at it. Some nights I wonder where they all go and others I wonder how they can all live so close to each other! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garyb Posted October 21, 2010 Report Share Posted October 21, 2010 Counted up my used brass the other night for the 243... 100 cases 40 on targets 3 misses 2 at rabbits = 55 foxes since June for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magman Posted October 21, 2010 Report Share Posted October 21, 2010 All in the maize here at the min still should be off soon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richie223 Posted October 21, 2010 Report Share Posted October 21, 2010 alot of foxes where i shoot,with 5000 phesant and 3000 partrige i dont blame them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digit Posted October 21, 2010 Report Share Posted October 21, 2010 Lots around here aswell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince Green Posted October 21, 2010 Report Share Posted October 21, 2010 Probably rumaging in the dustbins on the local housing estate. Foxes aren't stupid, why eat worms and fieldmice when there's KFC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cocker3 Posted October 21, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2010 Probably rumaging in the dustbins on the local housing estate. Foxes aren't stupid, why eat worms and fieldmice when there's KFC.i sure as hell would,nt walk 20 miles to the nearest housing estate for kfc mcd is another story tho were out three four times a week at all times from 830pm till 430 am and were just not seeing them around here where as the last 2 years i have averaged 45 a year Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doggone Posted October 21, 2010 Report Share Posted October 21, 2010 just wondering if any one else has had a drop in fox numbers (not a bad thing )but i have been out lamping since harvest time (mid august)and have seen very few foxes about in a usual year i shoot 10-20 on stubbles but this year i have only shot 6 and seen 10. i have spoken to a few keepers around our area and they are saying the same (they just aint there )and had a word with sako from aberdeen and he is the same i am begining to wonder whats happened could it be that as we had a hard winter last year (snow on the ground form december to late march )is it this has some bearing on there youngs survival rate (food ,cold ect)and on foxes in general of the 6 i have shot 1 was a cub 1 old vixen 4 older dogs so has any one else seen a drop in numbers We've shot 63 since 1st august in the fens, and my son has shot 60 since Jan on his estate near Lockerbie. So it just depends which part of the country you're in, perhaps be the other way round next year. Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liamlumsden Posted October 22, 2010 Report Share Posted October 22, 2010 i have noticed a drop in the amount in my area i just put it down as a hard time during breeding for food and ect... but i have noticed alot of road kills they were in good condistion plenty of body fat by the looks of things so makes that theory go out the window some wat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonno Posted October 25, 2010 Report Share Posted October 25, 2010 just wondering if any one else has had a drop in fox numbers Not in my part of the world. They seem to be thriving by living on my chickens. Now desperate enough to to try a fox trap despite lots of people saying they don't work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frenchieboy Posted October 25, 2010 Report Share Posted October 25, 2010 We've got a fair few round our way! Mind you there are 40 odd less that I know of this year that died of "lead poisoning"! (Administered rather forcefully from the muzzle end of e .222 rifle)! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorfolkPoacher Posted October 25, 2010 Report Share Posted October 25, 2010 ive casually thinnned 17 since march, still a few about though. we get urban foxes from all over the country relocated in my neck of the woods. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inthedark Posted October 25, 2010 Report Share Posted October 25, 2010 I ran a similar thread earlier this year, cos there was just nothing showing. Picked up a bit this last month but we're down by half. Good thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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