I've seen a number of foxes at a golf course driving range that I frequent that is close to a sagebrush area and once in a while a coyote will wander on the course.

Yesterday my son and I were playing golf on another course that is in a high intensity farming area and that course had an area in the course that was about 100 yards wide for future home sites. As we were driving the golf cart on the path from one tee box we passed a young fox that was in the shade only about 10 yards off the cart path. He didn't move and we just drove on by.

Do you lads find a lot of foxes on the golf courses around where you live??

My friend and I have permission to shoot on a local golf course here in Ireland - at night with spot lights. For safety reasons, it is rimfires only, we use a 17HMR. We are mainly keeping the rabbits under control, but we regularly shoot foxes out on the course at night. They are coming in to the course to hunt the rabbits.

This is a suburban course at the edge of a decent sized town.

I have them in my property, a ton of rabbits, ergo a ton of foxes and coyotes. Except I am limited to bow and arrow.

My sister, who lives in a Denver, Colorado suburb, has a red fox that walks across the top of her back fence every week and drives her dog crazy. This has been going on for a year and a half so far.

We see more coyotes than foxes on the golf courses down here in Texas, and those are grey's.

Bob

All of north Denver and any of the western suburbs have foxes as permanent residents. We see them nearly everyday........

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Originally posted by eurocentric:
I have them in my property, a ton of rabbits, ergo a ton of foxes and coyotes. Except I am limited to bow and arrow.

Can you have a suppressed rifle up there in NY?

I'm surrounded by estates, no firearms can be fired within my township.

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Originally posted by DuggaBoye:

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Originally posted by eurocentric:
I have them in my property, a ton of rabbits, ergo a ton of foxes and coyotes. Except I am limited to bow and arrow.

Can you have a suppressed rifle up there in NY?

and to be honest, i could fire off any of my rifles and no one would hear it, but why break the law?

Golf courses and orchards - two places that can have plenty of fox and coyote. Getting permission to hunt them may be a challenge because they do a good job controlling the rabbits, moles, mice, etc. that damage the turf and/or crops.

A friend of mine gets to to a big deer hunt on a golf course. The whole hunting party spreads out across the various fairways with good shooting lanes. Several others push the small wooded areas. Very low effort hunt, but the owner says he has lots of damage to the shrubbery, etc. from the deer.

I shot this one with a camera, at 140 yards. I tried to stalk closer, and, he took a giant leap into the undergrowth.

Why are you folks screwing up nature? LET the fox, and yotes eat the rabbits, unless of course, you'd rather. Then out hunt them.

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Originally posted by GS:


Why are you folks screwing up nature? LET the fox, and yotes eat the rabbits, unless of course, you'd rather. Then out hunt them.

It seems to be a natural instinct among most predators that they want to kill smaller predators further down the food chain. Leaves more game animals around for the top predator.

Works for me any way. I will shoot every fox I see. No exceptions.

A dozen foxes will turn three or four square miles into a small game desert.

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Originally posted by erict:
Golf courses and orchards - two places that can have plenty of fox and coyote. Getting permission to hunt them may be a challenge because they do a good job controlling the rabbits, moles, mice, etc. that damage the turf and/or crops.

A friend of mine gets to to a big deer hunt on a golf course. The whole hunting party spreads out across the various fairways with good shooting lanes. Several others push the small wooded areas. Very low effort hunt, but the owner says he has lots of damage to the shrubbery, etc. from the deer.

I was just responding to this post.
Fox do take cats, and other pets, in urban settings...

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Originally posted by Claret_Dabbler:

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Originally posted by GS:


Why are you folks screwing up nature? LET the fox, and yotes eat the rabbits, unless of course, you'd rather. Then out hunt them.

It seems to be a natural instinct among most predators that they want to kill smaller predators further down the food chain. Leaves more game animals around for the top predator.

Works for me any way. I will shoot every fox I see. No exceptions.

A dozen foxes will turn three or four square miles into a small game desert.

Not really,
Fox mostly eat rats and mice same as coyotes.
If you watch them hunt a while you would figure that out.

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Originally posted by SR4759:

Not really,
Fox mostly eat rats and mice same as coyotes.
If you watch them hunt a while you would figure that out.

Sorry mate, you're wrong.

This side of the pond - and the clue is NORTHERN IRELAND, foxy will kill anything he can get his jaws around and run off with. Don't know about the ones in your area but here they can go 22+lbs. Heaviest I've had was 17 1/2 odd. That was more than capable of taking the odd rabbit/roe fawn/newborn lamb. Farmers don't like them, grounds keepers don't like them, even the local councils don't like them but they wouldn't admit it. I do agree however that they will also feed on rats, mice, beetles etc. They are what could be called the perfect scavenger.

The perfect scavenger in North America isn't a fox, nor do I consider a fox a scavenger at all, but rather a predator. The coyote has very much eliminated or significantly reduced fox populations where they coexist and gets my vote for perfect predator in North America. The perfect scavenger is probably a seagull.

I know this has nothing to do with fox on golf courses - sorry.

What is a golf course?

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Originally posted by Joe Young:
What is a golf course?

It's a place to go watch foxes.

I always give foxy a fair chance & shout "fore"!, instead of whistling to stop them when lamping golfcourses

I've seen gray foxes, kit foxes, coyotes, bobcats, deer, turkeys, skunks, opossum and rattlesnakes on the courses out here.

My 2nd Job was working as a grounds keeper for a golf corse. Great job really! I got to work outside by my self for about 4 hours in the early AM before the rest of the lawn crew shown up.

OK, that aside, if I was real quite I would see all of the above plus Moose, but no opossums and rattlesnakes. But when moving rocks I would see garden snakes and salamanders.

To be mean to the mower guys I would dig up some moose crap and throw it on the lawn. Man they would get pissed. But they would never find out, I was there for 4 hours before them. They couldn't figure it out no moose tracks.
Hated smoothing out moose tracks!
That job is coming up on 10 years ago. Been out of the army now 6years.