central va fox hunting
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The Wildfire is good but I also use some custom hand calls from the call makers here on the board. Closed reeds are easier to start with and it does take some practice to learn on an open reed but you can change pitch and tone so easily, you can also do vocalizations with them. Greys respond well to rabbit distress sounds but really come in to grey fox distress sounds.
VAkritterkiller
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Anything with a cottontail rabbit distress works great. I've got a FoxPro firestorm that works awesome but I leave that in the truck and use my MFK single slash diaphragm to really tear em up.
Originally Posted By: WillyboI was wondering what kind of calls you guys are using for fox? Probably more grays than reds where I'm hunting. And should I go ahead and buy a FoxPro?
Thanks for your help,
Willybo
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Whether you buy an e-caller or not is up to you! They have advantages sometimes, and FoxPro is the only one that I would buy.
I shoot a lot of foxes in VA, and lots of calls will get results....BUT, if I could only have one mouth call, it would be a Syco Tweety!
Good hunting!
F1
Thanks for your help,
Willybo
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Whether you buy an e-caller or not is up to you! They have advantages sometimes, and FoxPro is the only one that I would buy.
I shoot a lot of foxes in VA, and lots of calls will get results....BUT, if I could only have one mouth call, it would be a Syco Tweety!
Good hunting!
F1
Hey Ruddy,
Since you mention handcalls...what are some of the hand calls you have used? from what call maker? I aim to buy one or two closed reed and one open reed. One thing I really need to get is a Bobcat/Fox call and probably a bird/woodpecker. I have seen Bobcats on my property which has some hills with rocks and saw them briefly.
As you probably know...there is so many calls its dizzying lol.
Since you mention handcalls...what are some of the hand calls you have used? from what call maker? I aim to buy one or two closed reed and one open reed. One thing I really need to get is a Bobcat/Fox call and probably a bird/woodpecker. I have seen Bobcats on my property which has some hills with rocks and saw them briefly.
As you probably know...there is so many calls its dizzying lol.
Logstove you're right I meant a FoxPro brand. Just not sure what model. I have the money to buy one it's just a matter of if it's a good investment for the price. And the quality of a FoxPro as compared to other e callers. And thank you guys for the help! I feel like hand calls would be more fun to use. I was actually deer hunting some property I can only use a bow and had a beautiful red fox come about 35 yards but my buddy was making noise with his tree stand and I never could get a shot on him.
I see a benefit in a E-caller in that you can place the caller away from you thus get predators focus on the location of the E-caller when calling. I think this is the greatest benefit for me besides learning what the call sounds like.
Come to think of it...I am getting a hand caller or a copule ones and maybe a decoy to round out what I need.
I've read that foxes like to hand around structure especailly when there are Coyotes around as tey know Coyotes do not like to be around people so Foxes probably feel secure around farm structures.
Someone in VA mention they kill alot of Foxes in VA...are they referring to Foxes around farms and equipment? I ask this because I think Coyotes are here in VA and are here to stay so Coyotes will probably run foxes outta their terriroty.
Come to think of it...I am getting a hand caller or a copule ones and maybe a decoy to round out what I need.
I've read that foxes like to hand around structure especailly when there are Coyotes around as tey know Coyotes do not like to be around people so Foxes probably feel secure around farm structures.
Someone in VA mention they kill alot of Foxes in VA...are they referring to Foxes around farms and equipment? I ask this because I think Coyotes are here in VA and are here to stay so Coyotes will probably run foxes outta their terriroty.
I have a Carver voiced duel tone, 1 of Badtothebone's (Rudy) Bunny bomb, 1 from Bearmanric and an Orion call plus a couple of others some are open reed some closed. All the guys in the custom call forum here make top notch stuff and can voice it to suit you. I haven't used any of the factory calls except an Olt call that was given to me by my grandfather 20+ years ago.
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Hey Willybo,
At my property when I walk along the trails that is dirt trails and used by ATVers or logging equipment a few years ago so now the trails are dirt for the most part I can see tracks in the dirt and I actually see a few places where scat is. So I think these are Coyotes as they look too big to be fox prints. I may be wrong but think I read where if there are Coyotes then the foxes or will be pressured out.
This is why want to try calling when it starts snowing LOL around my home. I know we have fox and coyotes because we have a local newsletter where a family saw coyotes just outside their yard and this is right on the gold course. Driving home one night I think I saw a bobcat cross the road and am 90% sure it is not a house cat as the bobcat looked more like a mountain lion in how it walked although it was about 4 yards in front of me crossing the road.
Anyway if you go out calling maybe try to team up with a bud and see if you can see how he does it. Maybe there are no fox in your specific area you called?
At my property when I walk along the trails that is dirt trails and used by ATVers or logging equipment a few years ago so now the trails are dirt for the most part I can see tracks in the dirt and I actually see a few places where scat is. So I think these are Coyotes as they look too big to be fox prints. I may be wrong but think I read where if there are Coyotes then the foxes or will be pressured out.
This is why want to try calling when it starts snowing LOL around my home. I know we have fox and coyotes because we have a local newsletter where a family saw coyotes just outside their yard and this is right on the gold course. Driving home one night I think I saw a bobcat cross the road and am 90% sure it is not a house cat as the bobcat looked more like a mountain lion in how it walked although it was about 4 yards in front of me crossing the road.
Anyway if you go out calling maybe try to team up with a bud and see if you can see how he does it. Maybe there are no fox in your specific area you called?
Cdubya I'm in Bedford county. Do most of my huntIn in forest and Goode.
Logstove. I do have old atv trails one along a creek and up the hill from the creek the deer tear those two trails up. They haven't been ridden for a few years so they're kinda overgrown and covered with leaf litter. There is also a logging road/ access road that goes through the woods to a bottom land field. I've thought about hunting on this road but I feel like there is too much human activity on it to think foxes would travel it. But I could be wrong. There is a lot of thick briars and brambles and a real deep fully probably 20' deep in places that runs parallel with the logging road. You think they would use that gully to move in for cover?
Thank you guys for all the help
Logstove. I do have old atv trails one along a creek and up the hill from the creek the deer tear those two trails up. They haven't been ridden for a few years so they're kinda overgrown and covered with leaf litter. There is also a logging road/ access road that goes through the woods to a bottom land field. I've thought about hunting on this road but I feel like there is too much human activity on it to think foxes would travel it. But I could be wrong. There is a lot of thick briars and brambles and a real deep fully probably 20' deep in places that runs parallel with the logging road. You think they would use that gully to move in for cover?
Thank you guys for all the help
The coyote population is definitely on the rise around where I hunt. But relatives that live 500 yards from my land said he's seen two coyotes at his place so they're in the area just not too many I dont believe. I did hear of a local farmer digging up a coyote den with his backhoe and found 13 dog collars.
kyle crickenberger
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I hunt goode and forest also, there is plenty of grays and yotes around. I would get an E caller and hand calls you can benefit from both. Any foxpro will work, scream n gray is a must sound.
VAkritterkiller
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You can call a fox out of about anything although I have most of my luck around hay fields with round bales or old buildings but as long as there's a food source there's fox unless you have a high coyote population. A few places I hunt there's a few coyotes and I've never killed a fox there but a mile through the woods where I've never seen or heard a dog I've killed several fox there. One of my favorite places to hunt is light lines and woods roads with a shotgun. Although reds have a different taste of land cover than greys, most the places I hunt I've killed both and even called in a cat or two. Its all about the available food source and pressure.
cec
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The whole coyote there no fox thing I dont think is true, at least not in my area. The last 3 years I have killed 11 grey's and 2 reds from the same area I hear coyotes at 2-3 nights a week. The area is only about 25 acres of woods surrounded by 300 acre of hay feild!
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VAkritterkiller
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Not saying in all regions its the same with fox/coyotes but around here (central VA) its a totally different ballgame than anywhere else in the state I've hunted. Around here its few and far between yotes and fox are everywhere. Rarely hear of a dog being called in and killed at night but the few dogs that are killed are done so either still hunting for deer of happen to catch one out in the field. Does a fox and coyote not compete for the same food source? And if im not mistaken a coyote is larger than any fox ive seen and from what i understand a coyote is very territorial so would it not lead one to think that a coyote would attack a fox over food/ territory? And you can guess which would win that brawl.