I've gotta kill that Fox!!!

[SPIKER]

Took a walk today up to the back corner to see momma Fox out sunning herself she was positively glowing red, kind of looked like a 2 dollar harlot night prior to the ships docking

I was pretty happy she looked very healthy & still had a very nice coat on her but I have already fed her 3 or 4 woodchucks in the last 2 weeks Yep they make pretty good ground hog (or "Ground Chucks":/ after a few 22LR shots) that keeps her up in her corner of our woods.

\Mark

 

[deerefan]

My grandfather was a veteran of WW2 and the best iron sight shot I ever met. He also lived in a very rural area of mississippi and had a problem with a fox getting after his chickens. He took one of his chickens, removed the head, hung it a few feet off the ground at the edge of the woods and waited. About 20 minutes later, the fox emerged sniffing the dead chicken and he shot it with a gun passed down to me, a M1 .30 cal carbine. Hit it square in the head at about 50-60 yards. I was about 9-10 at the time and remember it like it was yesterday. He shot, spit his tobacco, looked at me and said "What do you know, now I have 2 headless animals to dispose of. Maybe I'll hang the fox from the tree by his back legs as a warning to his friends." Honestly, he scared the heck out of me. Best granddad ever...luckily he chose to not use his .45/70, boy that would have been a mess!! That cannon rests in my safe also along with about 65 more. I miss that tough old bird. Died in 2005 right before Katrina....

 

[jonyyuma]

Deerefan good story about grandad..My dad had a military carbine, I took it after a whitetail deer. It killed it, but I decided to carry something with a little more power for them the next time..It was my Mom's favorite defense gun, wish I still had it..

 

[deerefan]

Deerefan good story about grandad..My dad had a military carbine, I took it after a whitetail deer. It killed it, but I decided to carry something with a little more power for them the next time..It was my Mom's favorite defense gun, wish I still had it..

I learned my lesson with it when I shot a hog. It seemed to really tick it off (about a 40 yd shot). That is not an animal I want mad. I went to either the .45/70, my .444 or my mossberg 12ga from then on. I will say this, that .30 cal carbine is almost as accurate as my array of .22 rifles. Anything within 50-80 yards is a hit.

 

[jonyyuma]

Yes, we hunt feral hogs, after much discussion..I took my Fal w night scope and my ruger .44mag pistol..So much weight i had trouble climbing the ladder...Wasn't gonna let that Hog get any free meat from my leg??The carbine I have now has a scope and multigroove barrel, but it still lacks penatrating power on a deer..I shoot them with 3006, or .308w....hard to beat them..

 

[MossflowerWoods]

My grandfather was a veteran of WW2 and the best iron sight shot I ever met. He also lived in a very rural area of mississippi and had a problem with a fox getting after his chickens. He took one of his chickens, removed the head, hung it a few feet off the ground at the edge of the woods and waited. About 20 minutes later, the fox emerged sniffing the dead chicken and he shot it with a gun passed down to me, a M1 .30 cal carbine. Hit it square in the head at about 50-60 yards. I was about 9-10 at the time and remember it like it was yesterday. He shot, spit his tobacco, looked at me and said "What do you know, now I have 2 headless animals to dispose of. Maybe I'll hang the fox from the tree by his back legs as a warning to his friends." Honestly, he scared the heck out of me. Best granddad ever...luckily he chose to not use his .45/70, boy that would have been a mess!! That cannon rests in my safe also along with about 65 more. I miss that tough old bird. Died in 2005 right before Katrina....

DeereFan,

Thank you for sharing that story. My Grandfather's died or were loing gone before I was 5 or so so I have no memories like yours.

But I want to be that kind of Grandpa...

Thanks again,
David

 

[MossflowerWoods]

I saw that BLASTED FOX!!!!

YESTERDAY!!!!

Of course I was DRIVING my truck, off my property (on the gravel easement) driving back from planting my new mailbox I built and since I was out in Public I was UN-ARMED!!!!

Honestly though the fox was doing mach-3 running out of my neighbors pasture into the woods (without a chicken).

But GRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!

David

 

[RobertBrown]

I don't see the fox in the picture......... the fox is not in the picture.:confused3:

I expected to see a head shot, chicken stealin, rascal with skull fragments and it's eyes bugged out.
I don't think he's takin you real serious....runnin around in the daylight and such......:dance1:.

 

[Combustix]

Had a buddy call me up and asked me if I wanted to shot some fox, so I showed up at his place about 8 pm and we sat around for awhile, then about 5 minutes to 9 we went out and he took a few hot dogs and put them by the lamp post. We then opened the back of his pick up and climbed in. about 30 seconds before 9 he said get ready, and wouldn't you know it the fox showed up right on cue.

He told me he had been doing this for a week and every night around the same time a fox came in for the hot dogs, it would gobble them up and leave, until he started shooting them. You might try the same tactic, and good luck

 

[Combustix]

Had a buddy call me up and asked me if I wanted to shot some fox, so I showed up at his place about 8 pm and we sat around for awhile, then about 5 minutes to 9 we went out and he took a few hot dogs and put them by the lamp post. We then opened the back of his pick up and climbed in. about 30 seconds before 9 he said get ready, and wouldn't you know it the fox showed up right on cue.

He told me he had been doing this for a week and every night around the same time a fox came in for the hot dogs, it would gobble them up and leave, until he started shooting them. You might try the same tactic, and good luck