Early AM foxing

[Benthejockey]

Went out tonight for a mooch round the lambing fields. Lay up on the river bank until it was barely light enough to see more than outlines. ****** me a fox skipped out of a big earth near where I shot a vixen last week. Do I get up a ridiculous o'clock in the morning and go and try and catch him going home or do I wait until tomorrow night 1858 to be precise and try and get him leaving home? Maybe leave a rabbit near the earth to stop him long enough to get s shot on him?

[White Rabbit]

Hi Ben,

 

It depends on the ground but your safest option is to go tomorrow night. Going out in the morning you run the risk of bumping in to it in the dark (you won't be aware you have) or he may well wind you as he comes back in to the hole.

 

Going in the evening gives you the advantage of knowing exactly where he is and you can position yourself right for the wind. If your using a centrefire I'd sit back around 100yds. He won't immediately spot you and its a comfortable range.

 

Bear in mind that if its definitely a dog and you've killed his vixen he won't be very predictable. Dogs aren't at the best of times but even less so with no vixen to hold him to that area. He cud well be down a hole a mile away tomorrow night.

 

Hope this helps. Good luck.

 

WR.

[Benthejockey]

Cheers WR. I'm tempted to go and have a mooch first light. The loop I tend to do is fairly predictable and as much as foxes don't have a diary I think an early morning forary would be educational. I'm guessing it's a dog. There is an old vixen that's been around for a few years who's lamp shy to the extreme and lived in those same holes so I'm not sure. I heard foxes calling ten minutes after I saw it.

 

The fields 500yds from my house, if I don't go in the morning I'm planning on lying up under the hedge where it ran to, dumping some stinky cat food around where he ran to distract him and then hopefully he'll play the game.