fox hunting

[croatankid]

does no one hunt fox? i was hunting coon but there are few here and so my dogs shifted over to fox. i have some great long races too. once in a while i'll see the fox cross the road. my dogs love it and i don't have to wade the swamps or fight through to brair and bramble. anyone else running them or what?

[s_parks]

we are starting to get more around my area still not many thou i try to put my dogs on one they would not have any thing to do with it. so how long does your race usually last? how far do they run? do they loop like a cat or leave the country like a coyote?

[al baldwin]

I have ran very few fox, several years ago one summer evening I turned the dogs loose in the yard for thier evening exercise. A young dog I just got back from a friend started a trac about 50 yards from my house, long story short it turned out to be a greyfox. Took three evening races to see the dogs were after a fox. I was thinking how neat to run a bobcat in the back yard. I enjoyed a fox race at home numerous evenings that summer. I live in the woods & at time had only one close nieghbor. The dogs at times ran the fox under his barn, he thought that was neat. Very good nieghbor. Helped he raised chickens. However, that fall when I started pursuit season for bobcat I had a coyote race and deceided to stop the fox running also. However you can run cat & fox and not have yote problems. So yes that grey ran like a bobcat & ran tighter circles than most bobs. Al BALDWIN

[Alabama Cathunter]

I run fox more than anything because I have more greyfox. Greys are the closest to a cat race that I guess you can get. My preference would be cat if I had plenty of cats.

[croatankid]

they usually run a circuit. sometimes a track will paraelell a road and they go back and forth. sometimes a circle and not too big either. i can jog along with the race and see my dogs collar lights flash because they are that close to the road. i wonder why they don't run faster, maybe because it's so thick here. i don't know if the fox are red or gray. i'm not good with colors and they don't hang around long. i can turn loose just about anywhere and it'll be on.

[al baldwin]

Suspect they are greyfox. Count your blessings. Wish I could find at location like that. Al

[Alabama Cathunter]

What kind of dogs are you running? I run walker fox hounds and you wont run along side of them! I dont mean that disrespectful!

[al baldwin]

I sure don,t mean to be disrespectful, but admitt wonder by your last post could he be running rabbits. If you have seen the fox that would not be so. Running a rabbit is not the worst thing that can happen, infact it can teach dogs to trac & should be easy to break them off. Patience & purveyance will make you and the hounds a team. Enjoy your youth. Al

[Stony]

I hunt here in Ca and the gray fox are thick with good fox dogs you may catch a couple a nite. We hunt them out here for lots of reason but one being training. I have hunted up in the eastern parts of oregon the fox were red so were much more tricky to catch. As for the fella trying to start pups catch a few alive in a box, turn them loose in a meadow, start in a moist daylite morning and jump them out time an time again. this will start an make the best pup!

[nighthazzardhounds]

We run many fox while hunting coyotes.

[s_parks]

ok my question is what runs harder a fox or bobcat?

[al baldwin]

S. Parks tough question, with my very limited experience on fox, I will say fox. Have been told the red fox is as hard to catch as a coyote. Al

[BlazeNBrat]

ok my question is what runs harder a fox or bobcat?

You must mean which is harder to catch? Because bobcats seldom "run" anything like a fox.

[s_parks]

i have never ran a fox so thats why i ask. what can you tell me. i know how bobcats run. fill me in on fox we are starting to get a few in my country so im currious. my dogs are broke off coyotes so i do not know if they would even run a fox.

[BlazeNBrat]

I have not a clue about Oregon. What I meant by that is when a bobcat is being chased they dont really run, but more less trott or even just walk fast, maybe once in a while make a short burst run. I'm sure if you run bobs you know that. I dont run fox with my hounds but, have seen my buddys run them with their running dogs. I can tell you that that these red fox around here can really FLY man!! Really hard to acually "catch" them with dogs when they hit the open and cover country. The fox also have a big advantage over dogs when they can carry over the deep snow and the dogs dont. Could be a whole different deal out there with the grays that tree? I dont know.