stuck with the foxes

[roadkill]

I am really struggling on getting rid of some foxes on oneof my permissions . Everytime we have a shoot we see at least two or three . Yet when im out on that piece of land at night i never see one i try to call them yet this does not work . Any other tips on trying to get these trick foxes ?

 

We go on other land and can get a fox every night but this place just seems to be getting one over on us .......

[tikabenelli]

if you can get there within every 24 hours it would be worth trying to snare them.

there must be regular runs around the area you keep seeing them.

good luck

[roadkill]

i have sent a pm to a fellow member to see if he has some snares for sale and shall give them ago. Also is it just as good going up at first light with some bait?

[garyb]

Bait them, and use a bait clock

[roadkill]

Bait them, and use a bait clock

 

where do i get one of them and how does it work? also what is the price of such a device

[tikabenelli]

Interesting Ive never heard of a bait clock what is it ?

[garyb]

http://forums.pigeonwatch.co.uk/forums/index.php?/topic/48219-what-time-is-it-mister-fox/page__p__428253__hl__%22bait+clock%22__fromsearch__1#entry428253

[al4x]

we've got the odd one of these if they are very lamp shy then odds are they are clearing off before you even come near. One option is a man with an auto on shoot days in the location you expect them to appear from. Obviously safety is key but usually they run out when beaters are a long way back.

[tikabenelli]

First light is always worth a try. Have you tried pegging some bait out early in the day then having a look with the lamp at different intervals to determine roughly what time charlie is visiting ?

 

Good luck

[tikabenelli]

What a brilliant idea this clock thing is.

Its true what they say you learn something new everyday

 

cheers

Edited November 29, 2010 by tikabenelli

[wymberley]

Hi,

Was just going to post a brief new topic when I saw this one. You may just find that nature will resolve your problem quite shortly. I was just going to post that they're on the move where I am in East Devon; am wondering if the cold snap has brought the breeding forward a little.

Cheers

[Crouch valley]

Try getting out while we have this cold snap every thing is just a little bit more lethargic and hungry. I caught up with three lamp shy ones on my shoot saturday night they just did not want to move to far I had been after these three for about five weeks and i got all three in 3 hours.

[quicksilver]

+1 for trying during the cold snap. You may get more luck calling them at the moment

[Guest shalfordninja]

We had the same problem our shoot this year. 2 of them, sorted as follows. We've seen them nearly every shoot day this year and we dont see them at night.

 

One of the drives is a long piece of scrub and a fox runs out and follows the ditch line when it's being driven for pheasants. This particular ditch runs through the line of guns and away down the valley it lies in. So, during the last shoot day one of the keepers sat 200 yards or so down the ditch behind the guns, out the way of the drive. We didnt put any pickers up in the area, safety first! The fox bolted as usual, out of the drive and down the ditch line, straight past the waiting keeper and job done

 

The second comes out of a pile of old dranage pipes that are next to one of our covers. On the Sunday after the last shoot, your not going to disturb anything the day after, 3 of us had a walk through the cover and round the dranage pipes. Sure enough it ran out past one of us and we got that one as well!

 

Two foxes that we'd been seeing during the day and not at night dealt with!! Foxes all follow a pattern, the difficualy is finding out what it is and applying a solution.

[Paul223]

Bait clock and get out before first light, watch the pens you'll be surprised what the foxes will get up to as the birds come down from the roost, a fox with a belly full of phessy doesn't need to hunt all night