Eastern Gray Fox Cover/Habitat Question

Pruson

Pruson

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Here in the eastern half of the country, what is the ABSOLUTE best cover/habitat to locate gray foxes in. I know, I know, cover with a food supply. But if you had a chance to call, with only one day left in the season or something, what cover would you go to and why????

Creek or river bottoms
Young pine cutovers
Swamps/lowlands
Timbered Ridges, etc, etc
 
Hey Pruson I am from chesterfield county and have been calling these critters for a while now. I prefer the thickest cover possible for grays when I go after them. I hunt out of a high chair in the back of my chev. tk and we call them in al the time. Headgerows in fields and thick swamp cover is the best. Give me a shout, maybe we can get together to do some hunting.
 
I'd say heavy briar patches,hardhack patches and heavy swamps.Cover is the key.Heavier the better in my area. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
Were a long way from each other but here in Wisconsin, the Red's seem to like the rock structures and quarry walls to hang around in.

Grey's, which aren't seen real often are most times caught in our lower lands, thick weedy, swamp like areas right next to the Mighty Miss over here. They've been caught in Coni-bears while targeting muskrats. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
carlw and Rosko2 are these Grays you both are in reference to, or are they Reds? I am widening my knowledge here, just want to make sure I got it right.

I am starting to discover that each area of the country holds different "hotspots", for lack of a better term, guess that is due to different primary terrain that they adapt to, in each area. We really don't have many rocky ledges and such in the Piedmont Plateaus of Virginia so they have adapted to other mainstay cover such as cutovers and other "thick" briary cover. They are taking advantage of what the Lord gives em'. I am sure in the western U.S., it is totally different. Probably mesquite flats or something of that nature. Guess I am searching for the common denominator across the board.
 
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