Calling Grey Fox??

NealinMO

NealinMO

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I usualy have pretty good luck calling coyotes but I wanted to give calling greys a shot.. What sounds work the best, I have a fx3 with grey fox in distress, but not grey fox pup distress, what else works?? What do I need to look for in a set, timber, brush??

Thanks in advance for any and all adise
 
In my limited experience I have found that gray fox are much easier to call in if you are in the area that has them. They are bold and will run into the stand without much hesitation. I use an electric caller and use fox in distress more than any other sound. I have also had a few foxes com into typical cottontail in distress sounds.
 
Neal I call quite a few here in the Ozarks. Usually they are around some sort of thick cover, thicker than the normal Ozark timber, like a clear-cut, really overgrown brushy creek bottom, overgrown fields, ect. In that situation I usually am calling for a bobcat and am using a higher pitched and somewhat softer sound, ran pretty steady. Bird distress, soft cottontail, stuff like that has produced a lot of grays for me over the years.
 
Hand calls. SycoTweety or Critr Gitr PeeWee. i've found high pitch with alot of fluttering of the tounge (woodpeckerish) works like crack for the little buggers. They will hang around longer than most coyotes and they are easier to bring back in if you shoot and miss.



Trashcan
Death Card Calls
 
The screaming woodpecker and rodent cries work well in our area but nothing works as good as the grey fox pup in distress. The old Johnny Stewart sound is as good as it gets. Here are a few that fell to it.
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Man those are pretty pictures! I love the salt and pepper woods fox, really pretty and yet really aggresive little buggers. If they had the size of a coyote they'd be some kinda tough critter to handle! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
Great pictures, WildEd. I have always thought the grey fox is one of the prettiest of all the predators. He is a gutty little rascal too. I have one sequence on my FX5 that I made on Goldwave that includes coyotes chasing and catching a grey fox, and it not only calls in coyotes well, but those little greys come in to help their buddies.
 
High pitched and bussy. Wild ED that looks like the Fredricksburge area in the pics.... is it? That's not but a hop skip and a jump down the road.
 
These were all called in Lampasas County Texas. One trick I have learned is to start with a woodpecker or rodent cries. That way you may call a bobcat, coyote or coon along with fox. Then switch to the grey fox pup. Also if a grey hangs up change the sound and often they will come on in. If you hunt at night use a red lens spot and leave it on instead of flipping it off and on. Use the bottom of the spot to look for eyes and then drop the main part of the spot beam on them when you are ready to shoot. Flipping the light on and off will scare them. A grey is much easier to call at night than the day.
 
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Neal

There has been one sound that for years has been the "go to" sound for Gray Foxes, it the old Johnny Stewart Gray Fox Pup Distress. Well , recently there is a second one that has been developed by FoxPro. It was introduced last year I believe. It is not a Mark II sound, but it is in the standard sound library. It's called Scream-N-Gray Fox , FoxPro sound number #226 , it works as well if not better than the old Johnny Stewart standby. I have both of them on my FoxPro FX5 and the newer sound is out performing the old JS standby. It is my finish the stand sound now a days, meaning when all else fails and I am about to quit the setup, I play it before I leave. Friday night, it brought in two in this manner and then one on Saturday night.

You can download it from FoxPro's website, no waiting just order and it is there.
 


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