Fox Calls the Whistle and bark Questions on usage?????

dzlfarmboy

dzlfarmboy

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We've had some good luck so far with just the bird, mouse and rabbit distress calls but what about the Fox Rally barking call and the Fox whistle, what are foxes saying when these are being heard, and how can they be used to bring in hung up foxes or just in general. I have heard plenty of barking before and also the whistle when there was a few haning up out in a field.

So lets hear it from the experienced guys with a few years under their belt of successful electronic Fox callin.

Thanks Brett
 
The fox whistle is very good when you are calling Grey Fox.
If I know a coyote home area is active, I go for the fox rally using a decoy. Both have worked for me.
 
Fox rally is a bark used to attract a mate in spring before they start to mate but are out looking for a mate.
I like the screaming rabbit as it sound like the traditional fox whistle that is a rabbit in distress . Seems to have the best volume as well.
 
The sound Fox Whislte that FoxPro had for some time, and I don't think is any longer offered, is a distress sound made on the infamous "Fox Whistle" that is so popular in Australia and Great Britian. I ordered three of them from England and they make an awesome distress sound. There are some You-Tube clips of the Fox Whistle being manufactured and some of it's sounds, how to use it etc. Australian Tom Varney has a video out where he is calling Red Fox while using the Fox Whistle, an amazingly effective rodent/rabbit distress sound, expecially on Reds.

The Red Fox Rally is a locator sound that is often used when a pair of mated foxes are hunting together, in order to keep track of each other's movements when seperated by a gully, creek bottom, hedgerow etc during the hunt. I have witnessed this on several occassions when just sitting and observing foxes together as they hunt during the summer time, it is simply a "Hey, I am over here, are you still over there" sound. Can also be used as a locator for the opposite sex. When not used by a mated pair, it is simply a curiosity arouser from one fox to another.

Hope this helps clarify the subject matter for you. Check out the You Tube listings for Fox Whistles, slightly difficult to master, but once you do have it, it will produce.
 
To further elaborate on the above statement:

This past summer, while groundhog hunting, I was sitting on a high spot overlooking a field, that had a brushy creek bottom in it, which was also divided by a hedgerow of Multiflorarose on one side of the creek. I observed two Red Foxes enter my view together and it was obvious they were hunting. They soon split up and started hunting on opposite sides of the bottom and hedgerow, they were as much as 75-100 yards apart as they traveled down the bottom. While hunting slowly and methodical, they would each call out to the other every yards of travel, using a bark identical the Red Fox Rally on my FoxPro FX5. They paralleled each other's course down the creek bottom for a couple hundred yards, and eventually one of them made a kill on a young rabbit. With his prey in his mouth, he immediately turned and made a direct route to the exact location of his mate, without further communications with each other, they knew where the other one was even after several hundred yards of travel down the bottom.

It was neat to just sit and watch the whole thing unfold before me. They were definitely communicating and keeping track of each other.
 
Originally Posted By: dzlfarmboyThanks for the input, the Fox whistle i am inquiring about is # 519 Under the Rodents/Coaxers section in Fox pros sound list.

I thought for sure they had discontinued that one, guess not huh! I'll ask Mike or Steve what it is. I think it is Steve on one of those little round tiny donut looking fox whistles. Could be wrong though.
 
What ever it is I have deffinetly herd them doing it out in a field one nite when we pulled up to the barn and we about to walk out and make a stand and we scanned the field and there were already 3 out 300yds so we tried to call from there but they knew something was up and just hung up in the field, but could hear hem making those sounds.
 
Australia's premier Fox Whistle is called a "Tenterfield Fox Whistle" followed by the traditional "Button Whistle" that are both responsible for the demise of thousands of foxes for many years.
Being a user of both a Foxpro and the Whistles I can assure you that the SCREAMING RABBIT is the Foxpro sound most like our Whistles and is my personal favourite foxpro sound . Great volume and gets results.
This link has a buttom at the top of the page to play the whistle sound for you and the factdsheet option has a variety of sound made by the whistle.
www.tenterfieldfoxwhistle.net

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