As we all know fox season has come to a close now, so when i had a huge red fox come into my calls while coyote hunting i was bummed that i couldn't take it. My friend and i had set up on the side of a hill were a cut corn field came into a grass field that was over looking a fence row that we knew had many fox dens on it. we had also seen coyote tracks in the area and the previouse year there had been 4 coyotes trapped in the same farm. It was the second location of the evening, and we had made one previouse stand on the same property along a small gutter that had a corn field to the top of it. Not long after calling in the first location a flock of 100 geese landed in the field so we decided to just wait there until the geese left in hopes that a coyote would be intereested in the many geese, but there were no dogs insite. we then moved up to the second location and proceded in calling. we had got to the second location just as it was getting dark so we could still see. i did some rabbit calling on my primos hot dog call that is meant to be a howler but i think that its distress sounds are just as good as any other mouth call that i have. with nothing in site i tried a few locator, female invitation, and challenge howls but there were still no coyotes. by this time it was almost totaly dark. i shined the lite down to the fencerow and there stood a huge red fox only about a hundred yards awaay.. i had always thought that the foxes would be scared off by the howls but in this case it came rite into them. i am certain that it was a fox and not a small coyote because i could see red fur and black ears and feet. can anyone else explain what caused this fox to come to the howls? my guess is that it was just real curiouse and probably a dominant male wondering what a coyote was doing on his territory. it still made for an interesting hunt!
