Can anyone advise best time and sounds for red fox?

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Tom_Lacetera

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I would like to try and get a few this upcoming season. I recently bought a red light for my scope and got a remote caller but I am unsure of my next course of action. I am new to the forum and I am trying to learn from all you guys and try my hand at a little predator hunting this year.
 
Tom, welcome to the forum. You will defiantly learn from this place! Night hunting reds can be a great time, I tend to use higher pitched calls. Injured woodpecker, rodent distress, and baby cottontail are a few of my favorite red fox calls. The other calls that you can do VERY well with an e-caller are fox pup distress & fox & coon fight. Good luck and keep us updated! By the way, there are a few guys on here that are a lot better at the night hunting deal! Check out the post from the "Night Hunting Forum" and look in this forum for post from R Buker and Pruson they are a couple of the guys that can teach you a TON about fox hunting in a very short time! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif

I don't get many reds down this way any more... miss hunting them little critters! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif
 
i have had the best luck with woodpecker/ bird distress and squeally rabbit-ish sounds. anytime is a good time to call fox. i've had them respond at all times of the day and night. once you have 'em coming go to the lip squeaks. they can't resist it.
reminds me of the old lady on Christmas Vacation describing the yet unseen squirrel in the tree.
"It's a little squeaky sound!"
 
Normally, they do respond best to higher pitch sounds as mentioned above. Such as bird sounds, or young cottontail or rodent if using an e-caller. The one key I would state here is to "back off" on the volume with reds though. Reds don't care for the volume as much as a gray will tolerate. If using mouth calls, get yourself a Johnny Stewart PC-3 or an Ed Sceery AP-6, both are bite type calls and you can get out on the end of the bite plates and really get some rodent or higher pitched sounds, just use real short and rapid breathes. With all this being said, you never can second guess a fox though. I have had reds come in when playing the FoxPro Aggressive Jackrabbit while calling coyotes with pretty loud volume and this is a very raspy and deeper sound, far from what was described above.

As far as best times, the guy above that said the best time to call is anytime is correct. "Get out there," you won't get er done sitting on the couch. But I have found the best times are twlight, last and first light.

"THE BEST ADVICE YOU WILL BE GIVEN, IS TO LEARN TO LIPSQUEAK." I have had foxes show me, through their body language, that they have had enough and was leaving the area with wreckless abandon. As I started to lipsqueak they would slam on the brakes and turn towards me and immediately start stalking the sound, usually coming pretty quickly.

Thanks for the endorsement JAMaidens, I appreciate that.
 
Tom,
I had great success with, believe it or not, a Primos hand held crow call this past year...I lowered the volume and made it sound like a dying "something or other" and it worked pretty well. Anything to change up the sounds..........
 
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Thanks for the endorsement JAMaidens, I appreciate that.



/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif no problem, I think Randy and yourself can pretty much set anyone up for fox hunting! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif I haven got to take many in the past few years here in the mid south. I did get that one nice grey this year with the pistol, that was it on fox. I miss the days of hunting them in PA and WV... ahhh, I miss those days! A nice fresh layer of snow, an old Olt rabbit distress that my Dad gave me, and a 22 Hornet. That’s all a boy needed! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
Thanks for the good advice. I appreciate it. Im getting pumped up for the season to start. I have a red light which attaches to the scope and a caller. Now I just need to get out there and try and get one to come in.
 
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