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Other Hunting => Coyote, Small Game, Varmints => Topic started by: Flytyerboy95 on October 27, 2010, 10:01:40 PM

Title: Fox?! They have a season...but does any one shoot them??
Post by: Flytyerboy95 on October 27, 2010, 10:01:40 PM: I have searched around for this info but figured I would just ask :p
do any of u guys target fox? Or ever get any?
Just thought I would ask
FTB95
oh also, any of u guys hunt clear cut areas for yotes? Seems like they might be productive.
Title: Re: Fox?! They have a season...but does any one shoot them??
Post by: boneaddict on October 27, 2010, 10:03:45 PM: I've killed one
Title: Re: Fox?! They have a season...but does any one shoot them??
Post by: Flytyerboy95 on October 27, 2010, 10:06:45 PM: Very nice :)
are there any places in Washington that they have even a decent population?
Cause they seem very far and few between :/
probably had something to do with yotes killin em?
Title: Re: Fox?! They have a season...but does any one shoot them??
Post by: boneaddict on October 27, 2010, 10:10:04 PM: Over in the NE corner and around Ephrata for the eastside. There are populations on the westside in certain places, some huntable some not. I had two in my yard about three weeks ago here in Selah
Title: Re: Fox?! They have a season...but does any one shoot them??
Post by: Flytyerboy95 on October 27, 2010, 10:20:33 PM: Ephrata?! Really? Hmmm...
I will definantly be bringing the .17 next Time I go to rocky ford for some fly fishing.
Thanks for the info :)
Title: Re: Fox?! They have a season...but does any one shoot them??
Post by: Kain on October 27, 2010, 10:53:56 PM: I have seen one fox about 20 years ago in SW Washington. It was in Gifford Pinchot National Forest and for some reason they are protected there. :dunno: Does anyone happen to know why?

Here is a map and info on Red Fox in WA.

http://depts.washington.edu/natmap/maps/wa/mammals/WA_red_fox.html (http://depts.washington.edu/natmap/maps/wa/mammals/WA_red_fox.html)
Title: Re: Fox?! They have a season...but does any one shoot them??
Post by: agchawk on October 27, 2010, 11:01:34 PM: Seen a few here in Asotin County also....although I can count them all on one hand.

Of course, this doesn't count the small number of them that live around the county landfill.
Title: Re: Fox?! They have a season...but does any one shoot them??
Post by: bearmanric on October 28, 2010, 10:32:12 AM: There re Gray Fox my Adams Walupt Lake area that's why it's closed. I'seen quite a few Red Fox. But I ain't telling were. They like salt water bay areas and Farm valleys. And around town's seen one a couple day's ago but it was here in Michigan. Rick
Title: Re: Fox?! They have a season...but does any one shoot them??
Post by: halflife65 on October 28, 2010, 10:43:23 AM: I've only seen the things in the dark.
Title: Re: Fox?! They have a season...but does any one shoot them??
Post by: VarmintVentilator on October 28, 2010, 12:55:29 PM: The only one I have ever seen, is now in my living room watching tv with me. A red fox after the color change. He is really pretty.
Title: Re: Fox?! They have a season...but does any one shoot them??
Post by: Kain on October 28, 2010, 01:03:04 PM: Quote from: VarmintVentilator on October 28, 2010, 12:55:29 PM
The only one I have ever seen, is now in my living room watching tv with me. A red fox after the color change. He is really pretty.

Well I think a post like that requires a picture. :dunno: :chuckle:
Title: Re: Fox?! They have a season...but does any one shoot them??
Post by: Rudy on October 28, 2010, 01:46:16 PM: Quote from: Kain on October 28, 2010, 01:03:04 PM
Quote from: VarmintVentilator on October 28, 2010, 12:55:29 PM
The only one I have ever seen, is now in my living room watching tv with me. A red fox after the color change. He is really pretty.

Well I think a post like that requires a picture. :dunno: :chuckle:

:yeah:
Title: Re: Fox?! They have a season...but does any one shoot them??
Post by: Machias on October 28, 2010, 03:16:55 PM: Quote from: halflife65 on October 28, 2010, 10:43:23 AM
I've only seen the things in the dark.

No problem, you can hunt them at night!! Plus of all the predators to call, night or day fox are by far the easiest to call in.
Title: Re: Fox?! They have a season...but does any one shoot them??
Post by: Gutpile on October 28, 2010, 03:20:00 PM: I've seen one once. :chuckle: :IBCOOL:

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Title: Re: Fox?! They have a season...but does any one shoot them??
Post by: Gutpile on October 28, 2010, 03:39:08 PM: Quote from: bearbaito6 on October 28, 2010, 03:36:57 PM
http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=3718.0;attach=49238 (http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=3718.0;attach=49238) Got this one a couple years ago.

That thing looks like a weird miniature wolf. Very cool.
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Post by: boneaddict on October 28, 2010, 04:05:52 PM: Do you still have your eye on the other ones you found?
Title: Re: Fox?! They have a season...but does any one shoot them??
Post by: Austrian Hunter on October 28, 2010, 04:14:19 PM: Quote from: boneaddict on October 27, 2010, 10:10:04 PM
Over in the NE corner and around Ephrata for the eastside. There are populations on the westside in certain places, some huntable some not. I had two in my yard about three weeks ago here in Selah

Did they make it out alive :dunno: :dunno:
Title: Re: Fox?! They have a season...but does any one shoot them??
Post by: boneaddict on October 28, 2010, 04:17:21 PM: Only because I didn't have one of those things attached to my longbow. :chuckle:
Title: Re: Fox?! They have a season...but does any one shoot them??
Post by: Austrian Hunter on October 28, 2010, 04:23:13 PM: Quote from: boneaddict on October 28, 2010, 04:17:21 PM
Only because I didn't have one of those things attached to my longbow. :chuckle:

OHHHH, it was dark by then :chuckle: :chuckle:
Title: Re: Fox?! They have a season...but does any one shoot them??
Post by: VarmintVentilator on October 29, 2010, 04:40:05 PM: (https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi887.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fac73%2Fgrwhite76%2Fcoyotes%2FFox002.jpg%3Ft%3D1288395304&hash=9e79392326238d067d1e92040f3f5c652bb841b6) Here is the photo of my little tv buddy.
Title: Re: Fox?! They have a season...but does any one shoot them??
Post by: tlbradford on October 29, 2010, 05:13:17 PM: I've seen two grays in the columbia basin region, and my first red last year, in Tonasket. I didn't shoot any of them.
Title: Re: Fox?! They have a season...but does any one shoot them??
Post by: bearmanric on October 30, 2010, 07:17:32 AM: Bodies and I was in the Gems state Predator hunt several years back in Idaho. We hunted south of Boise seen a black very Furry Fox pretty. Lots of Fox tracks by the Nevada border. Went hunting in PA a few years ago called 3 Red Fox in with a squeaker calls. Called a Grey in okla Homs couple years go. Fox are fun to call in. Want to get a grey this yearwill be hunt Arizona and new Mexico. Man I'm getting excited to start calling. Rick
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Post by: Wanttohuntmore on October 30, 2010, 07:24:14 AM: Seen an all black fox up by Chinook Pass a few years ago.... Well, about 20 yrs ago.... Time flies. Not sure if that was a Red or a Gray. I haven't seen a fox in WA since, but do see them in Montana quite a bit. Would really like to get one for a full body mount, along with a bobcat....
Title: Re: Fox?! They have a season...but does any one shoot them??
Post by: Todd_ID on November 01, 2010, 06:53:02 AM: Quote from: agchawk on October 27, 2010, 11:01:34 PM
Seen a few here in Asotin County also....although I can count them all on one hand.

Of course, this doesn't count the small number of them that live around the county landfill.

Those little *censored*s dig monster holes for dens. They live in my field, and I've about broken my neck hitting the holes with the 4 wheeler and tractor. Been wanting to get one for a while; the female is especially pretty. The only thing keeping me from getting one is the taxidermy cost on a mount. The pups are cute as hell in the spring to watch. I'd like to get a big female and a couple pups mounted some day. However, the pups always show up right as the season closes, so that isn't too likely.
Title: Re: Fox?! They have a season...but does any one shoot them??
Post by: Special T on November 01, 2010, 07:31:19 AM: They are all over San Juan Island... They were imported to balance out the Big Belgian hares that were introduced or escaped on the island.... there were no preditors on the island until then... I believe it is closed in the whole county now...
Title: Re: Fox?! They have a season...but does any one shoot them??
Post by: Jerry malbeck on November 03, 2010, 07:12:01 PM: I have seen one in all my years of calling eastern washington and it was dead on the road.
Ephrata???
never saw a fox any where near there or moses lake in 15 years of calling and hunting all that area throughly.
If i did ever call one in i know i wouldnt shoot the dang thing , I would leave it for seed .
Title: Re: Fox?! They have a season...but does any one shoot them??
Post by: Maverick on November 16, 2010, 10:12:55 AM: I've shot 3 and I've gotten my dad and buddy each one. All in tri cities in the past 3 years. I see them all the time but usually all you get is a quick look and they're gone. I'm waiting for the one I shot in november last year to get back from the taxidermist. Full body mount costing $400. I called my buddy in a black fox in september this year and I shot another red one in october. There are plenty around now and I've heard lots of people getting them up at moses lake. I'd like to know how they showed up at tri cities. First one I saw was about 10-12 years ago. Now I see them often.
Title: Re: Fox?! They have a season...but does any one shoot them??
Post by: BlackRidge on November 17, 2010, 06:48:30 PM: I've seen a few back up in the mt. baker/snoqualmie forest (near denny creek), shame its one of the few places where taking one is verboten

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