Fox in a Tree.

flyfishn_bum

flyfishn_bum

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Ok this one was a little new for me. While Elk hunting this past week in colorado, i was walking as quetly as i could.Which was well not as quit as i wanted. as i was walking a fox jumped from about 10 feet up in a pine tree. as anyone ever experianced this. It kinda shocked me, i just stood there and looked at the tree for a min. It was a gray fox i believe.
 
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I saw that years ago whenever a group of us took our
Walker fox/deer hound puppies to a fox pen for a day of training. There must have been 30 puppies 3-6 months old. It was a small pen of about 60 acres just for puppies to run foxes. The pen had gray and silver foxes in it.
After a few hours of excitement there were no foxes to be found. The foxes were up in the trees. Some as high as 20 feet. We would shake them out and the chase was on again. We did that all day. Lots of fun and good experience for the pups.
 
Never say never is a good policy!

Curious about those pic's of reds in trees - do you think or know if they actually climbed like the gray in your bottom pic or it was more an issue of jumping up to a low lieing limb, sloping trunk, etc...

Not disagreeing, just curious.

I have seen reds make use of partially fallen trees that they could jump up on and run along when chased by hounds, etc...
 
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do you think or know if they actually climbed like the gray in your bottom pic or it was more an issue of jumping up to a low lieing limb, sloping trunk, etc...




Don't know.
 
A few years ago I had a few coyotes to skin so I backed up to a big mesquite tree hung the first coyote and fully skinned it out. I hung the second coyote and skinned that one. About 1/2 way through the third coyote the fox in the tree decided he'd had about enough and jumped out of the tree I was using to skin, it was about a 15 foot jump, it was sorta raining fox. It still gives me a chuckle to imagine what the fox was thinking while he laid up there watching me skinn those coyotes ....
 
Probably something along the lines of, "if he's that hard on a rough and tough coyote what would he do to little ole me?"

I'm surprised it wasn't raining fox excrement of one form or another....
 
not uncommon at all, gray fox sleep in pine trees to keep away from larger predators, especially coyote.
found a nice spot to make a stand, about 30 seconds into the call a nice gray showed up,a quick shot from my 17 Ackley hornet dispatched him.
over the next 2 minutes 5 more fox meet the same fate, thinking the action was over the depleted clip was replaced with a full one, all of a sudden a large male ran out onto a large limb on a nearby evergreen tree, without hesitation he plunged the 15 feet to the ground.
surprised by what I had just witnessed, a quick snap shot barley missed the fox chest. the bullet burned a streak from the front shoulder to the tail down the middle of his side.
the fox streaked off over the edge of the hill, he was no longer a gray fox but a striped gray fox. over the next 2 months that fox came to my call twice, both times I let him go, otherwise it would have been double jeopardy.
 
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