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Other Hunting => Coyote, Small Game, Varmints => Topic started by: Gutpile on December 03, 2009, 02:24:03 PM

Title: First FOX!!
Post by: Gutpile on December 03, 2009, 02:24:03 PM: I was just pulling into my spot this morning when a coyote goes running across the road a couple hundred yards up. I pull over and grab my stuff thinking this would be a great way to start the day. Anyways I see him on the edge of the CRP and he disappears. I thought I lost him but I walked to where I could see up the draw he went into a little better and there he was. I thought he looked really good and thick, especially the tail. Anyways I got ready, dialed the scope in and there was a Fox, it wasn't a coyote at all! I couldn't believe what I was looking at! I took the shot, it was a ways out there but I really wanted to get a good hit. I heard the THUD so I knew I had a good hit and he dropped. I walked up to him and was in disbelief. I've never seen a Fox in WA. I used to see them in North Carolina and Massachussetts when I was in the service but never here. Just a beautiful little creature. Just wanted to brag.

Oh! It was a 177 yards. Made a perfect hit. :IBCOOL:
Title: Re: First FOX!!
Post by: NWBREW on December 03, 2009, 02:30:49 PM: Thats cool. The fox I've seen on the west side seem to not be as red or have a little more black on them. Are you gonna have the hide tanned? Nice shooting too.
Title: Re: First FOX!!
Post by: BIGINNER on December 03, 2009, 02:32:05 PM: whatpart of washington was this? i've never seen any foxes in washington either.
Title: Re: First FOX!!
Post by: Gutpile on December 03, 2009, 02:34:53 PM: Quote
whatpart of washington was this? i've never seen any foxes in washington either.
Whitman county.

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Are you gonna have the hide tanned?
I'm gonna tan it at the least. I may mount it. I'm 42 and hunted my whole life, never even seen one around here so I may mount it since I'll probably never see another one.. Would like to have a full body. The colors are awesome. The pics don't do it justice.
Title: Re: First FOX!!
Post by: SpokaneSlayer on December 03, 2009, 02:35:26 PM: Nice!!! I took a shot at a fox last year during deer season around Tyler. Probably wouldn't have been much left after a 25-06 round. Little frosty this morning, wasn't it?
Title: Re: First FOX!!
Post by: carpsniperg2 on December 03, 2009, 02:39:08 PM: good looking fox and special varmit ar-15 i have the same one but diffrent scope. just got another yesterday but its not got all the bells like the special varmit bushy has but still a nice gun.
Title: Re: First FOX!!
Post by: Gutpile on December 03, 2009, 02:43:54 PM: Quote from: carpsniperg2 on December 03, 2009, 02:39:08 PM
good looking fox and special varmit ar-15 i have the same one but diffrent scope. just got another yesterday but its not got all the bells like the special varmit bushy has but still a nice gun.

I havent been shooting well with the AR platform. This was the last year of fooling with them for hunting but I'm doing well with it so far this year so I'll keep using it. The crazy thing is, is that it's super accurate but I just couldn't hit a damn coyote with it. I took the 4.5X14 off and threw a 3X9 back on. I'm shooting much better now. :chuckle:
Title: Re: First FOX!!
Post by: boneaddict on December 03, 2009, 02:46:18 PM: Thats pa pretty one for red in this state. Its about the color of the one I got. NICE WORK. I'd certainly have it mounted at least as a rug and head.
Title: Re: First FOX!!
Post by: jackelope on December 03, 2009, 02:52:56 PM: they're cool little critters. i killed 1 in NY with a 30-06. they are vermin pheasant killers there and are plentiful. unfortunately there's not much left of one when you hit them with a frontal shot from a naught-6.
a taxi put mine back together and had the mount in his studio for a long time.
Title: Re: First FOX!!
Post by: washingtonmuley on December 03, 2009, 03:10:06 PM: Nice fox. I use to spend my winters in kodiak chasing fox. I sure miss hunting them.
Title: Re: First FOX!!
Post by: saylean on December 03, 2009, 03:11:50 PM: AWESOME!

only foxes I've seen were at the refineries in Ferndale and at the airport in Ireland.

Congrats man!
Title: Re: First FOX!!
Post by: MHWASH on December 03, 2009, 03:13:49 PM: :drool: That's awesome. You're very lucky to have seen one, let alone shoot it.
Title: Re: First FOX!!
Post by: bighorns2bushytails on December 03, 2009, 03:26:36 PM: >:(

--BH2BT

seriously though, congrats! you are the great white hunter :chuckle:
Title: Re: First FOX!!
Post by: JackOfAllTrades on December 03, 2009, 03:26:53 PM: I've seen a couple on the wet side. Never one that looked that purty anywhere!

Sweet kill. Mount that one!

-Steve
Title: Re: First FOX!!
Post by: Gringo31 on December 03, 2009, 04:09:47 PM: BONUS!
Title: Re: First FOX!!
Post by: MtnMuley on December 03, 2009, 04:21:47 PM: Very nice! Congrats. Very few around the eastern part of the state. :)
Title: Re: First FOX!!
Post by: Machias on December 03, 2009, 04:23:16 PM: Congrats, what an awesome little trophy!

My first year in the Air Force they were going for $90 to $100 a pelt. I took 32 trapping and calling. I bought my first truck because of red and grey fox hides. Careful when you pull the tail out, they are not super thin skinned but don't man handle it either. They are EASY to call, probably the easiest animal of all to call in with a cottontail distress call. They come right in and are VERY jittery.
Title: Re: First FOX!!
Post by: shoot-em-dead on December 03, 2009, 04:45:29 PM: So cool- you call Rory over that one, He is going to go nuts :chuckle:
Title: Re: First FOX!!
Post by: bighorns2bushytails on December 03, 2009, 05:18:06 PM: you need to mount or rug that for sure! no more sneaking out with out me ya bastage! im so fired up to go now! I cant wait for saturday! im hoping by saturday ill have my karma points aquired and my cosmic energies aligned. im getting a bobcat!

--BH2BT
Title: Re: First FOX!!
Post by: Gutpile on December 03, 2009, 05:24:44 PM: Quote from: bighorns2bushytails on December 03, 2009, 05:18:06 PM
you need to mount or rug that for sure! no more sneaking out with out me ya bastage! im so fired up to go now! I cant wait for saturday! im hoping by saturday ill have my karma points aquired and my cosmic energies aligned. im getting a bobcat!

--BH2BT

It's good to be self employed with a seasonal business. LOL!! have fun at WORK tomorrow. :chuckle: I may go fox hunting.
Title: Re: First FOX!!
Post by: rasbo on December 03, 2009, 05:30:09 PM: thats awesome gutpile,that will make an awesome mount.that is such a bonus.Ive only taken one and the taxi ripped me and a bunch of others off..
Title: Re: First FOX!!
Post by: turkey slayer on December 03, 2009, 05:38:17 PM: Con grates gutpile, I seen my first 1 this year in the wheatfiels while muzzy hunting
Title: Re: First FOX!!
Post by: KillerMiller on December 03, 2009, 05:52:08 PM: :drool:Congrats! :drool:
Title: Re: First FOX!!
Post by: Kain on December 03, 2009, 06:55:30 PM: Beautiful, I would have that mounted for sure. I saw a silver phase years ago in the Siouxon and I called in a possible last year down in Battleground. I never got a great look at it but its tail was as long as its body and didnt look like a coyote.
Title: Re: First FOX!!
Post by: MasterMisser on December 03, 2009, 06:58:31 PM: congrats gutpile. Now dont screw around with a rug! do a full mount and do it right :IBCOOL:
Title: Re: First FOX!!
Post by: Gutpile on December 03, 2009, 07:02:07 PM: Quote from: MasterMisser on December 03, 2009, 06:58:31 PM
congrats gutpile. Now dont screw around with a rug! do a full mount and do it right :IBCOOL:

Yep! I agree! I've got the pose all figured out. Gotta see the legs and the tail. I wish these were more common.
Title: Re: First FOX!!
Post by: 257 Wby Mag on December 03, 2009, 07:08:41 PM: Nice work!! I'd really like to get one somday. Missed one a few years ago over in Montana, 350 yards running. My outfitter up in B.C. had a couple cross foxes hanging around his place that I tried to talk him into letting me shoot, no dice. Congrats again.
Title: Re: First FOX!!
Post by: markts on December 03, 2009, 07:09:52 PM: Congrats on a fine trophy, I have only seen one, on the Nooch years ago. Mark
Title: Re: First FOX!!
Post by: MasterMisser on December 03, 2009, 07:28:52 PM: Quote from: Gutpile on December 03, 2009, 07:02:07 PM
Quote from: MasterMisser on December 03, 2009, 06:58:31 PM
congrats gutpile. Now dont screw around with a rug! do a full mount and do it right :IBCOOL:

Yep! I agree! I've got the pose all figured out. Gotta see the legs and the tail. I wish these were more common.
maybe a bird or a furry animal in the mouth would llok good too? the taxi over by my place on coulee hights has a younger yote mounted with a quail in its mouth. Looks Great.
Title: Re: First FOX!!
Post by: MLBowhunting on December 03, 2009, 09:16:52 PM: Very cool. Rare also i ve hunted here for many yrs and never seen one. I went to alaska caribou hunting and saw a ton. Congrats on the fox.
Title: Re: First FOX!!
Post by: timberghost72 on December 03, 2009, 10:03:30 PM: Very nice :tup: Thats a great trophy. Definitely mount it
Title: Re: First FOX!!
Post by: Elliott on December 03, 2009, 10:52:35 PM: NICE! what kind of equipment are you using? That an AR?
Title: Re: First FOX!!
Post by: CoryTDF on December 04, 2009, 10:01:17 AM: That is so freakin awesome!
Title: Re: First FOX!!
Post by: Snowman on December 04, 2009, 10:04:26 AM: Sweet nice fox! :)
Title: Re: First FOX!!
Post by: Big10gauge on December 04, 2009, 05:32:04 PM: Sweeet!!!!!! Congrats and good shot on the fox. :drool: I've only seen one on this side so far. Let me know if they taste better than coyote. :EAT:
Title: Re: First FOX!!
Post by: tlbradford on December 05, 2009, 02:34:54 PM: That is awesome. I still have never seen a red yet.
Title: Re: First FOX!!
Post by: alecvg on December 05, 2009, 02:41:29 PM: Nice fox! I have seen plenty in ID, but never one in WA, nice job!