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just wondering how many of you cat hunters ever run grey fox. well, if youve never tried it, you should. its like a jumped cat race that lasts for hours. i have ran a few now and caught a couple and i am hooked. garanteed im not gonna pass one up from now on.

hell yes!

I don't think the dogs I have will put enough presure on one to tree it. I catch my share of the bobs but don't think my dogs like them enough to run them with heart.

I'm a cat hunter....alway have been, always will be.

Don

Love hunting those grey fox............

even if i couldnt catch em i would still run them just to listen to the race and its good exercise for them dogs. might even help out with the cat hunting part of it. locating, treeing, and running harder. jmo.

It will definitely help them on running (longevity/cardio wise).......In my experience it's harder for dogs to locate a cat than a fox..

the locating i was talking about was for the puppies (easy for them) to learn on. so that they would learn what happens at the end of the track and put two and two together.

walkersrule. not sure of your location in sw. oregon. i did alot of damage control for bear in cave junction from the 80's thru just a few years ago for foris vineyards winery. towards the caves highway there was a ton of greys in the althouse cr,sucker cr.area,holland mainline. holland was the small community close to some good fox running action. very common to see as many as 10 greys a day walking cross country on the private ranches. always thought it would be a blast to run them with a hound.i never tried them, always dealing with a problem bear at the time. you have to be careful in all of that country. lots of dope growing hippies!

i got to go out this year and turn a dog in about 15 or so fox races in brush that goes for miles. a dog really has to know how to get through the woods. i got to hunt with fox hunter sonny turner. when those dogs are pouring it on it sounds as good as a bear race. i almost don't waiste my time bobcat hunting anymore unless i get a nice snow. there are so many fox sometimes we would catch 3 in one night. im hooked.

If you were hunting with Sonny Turner, I know you were listening to dogs run a fox the way it is supposed to be done. I've only hunted with him once, Bear hunted as a matter of fact, many years ago, but we have mutual friends and I know he keeps very nice hounds. As he has bought some of the nicest fox/cat dogs I've ever seen from friends of mine over the years.

I have never ran a fox. I had a few starts when I was roading the dogs but called them off I didnt really want them running fox. But the more I read on here the more I would like to give it a try. Any pointers for someone's firts real try at it?

I moved to Id from Ca cat hunting here is disapointing after 15 years of good hard running fox races

In yalls opinion y does the race last so much longer? N heres sumn else to think about does it really have to take so long? What type of dog woul it take to decrease the length of those races? What traits etc.?

Jared,

Why don't I know you? Who do you hunt with? We only live 30 minutes apart and I work 10 minutes from Porterville.......just curious.

Everlast. Ive been flyn pretty much solo since my dad retired to arkansas. I hunt mostlt above ducor just north of pineflat. Every now and then ill hunt blueridge. Got a good amount of game down this way. Hows it lookn in ur neck of the woods?