You have felt of the ambush hunting?
Here in Switzerland (canton Graubünden) it is a lot practiced. Draft to expect the red fox lain in wait for in a shack, all of night.Before it must put a decoy. And to wait just it arrives the red fox or badger.

The weapon is duble rifle cal 12 with's cartiged 70 baby magnum n.3, shooting distance is max 40 meters. Not admitted artificial light, make Hunt just wit Monn light.

The experience is truly beautiful in how much looks at a shadow that it arrives from the null one.
Only the blaze of the gun illuminates for the little second zone.

10,3x60r

Cannot really grasp what you are writing about - except waiting to ambush a fox at night, but that is a great photograph - well done!!

Sorry nightwalker my lenguage is Italian, i write wit's Beabel Fish translate.

Ciao 10.3

Here in the UK, shooting foxes is very popular.

We use artificial lights at night - often calling the foxes to us by 'squeaking' like a rabbit.

Do you use calls to bring the foxes closer?


rgds Ian

Ian,

Please remember not *all* of us shoot foxes..

Some of us like to sit in a highseat and take pictures, while watching the blue vein pulsing on the side of the head of the person sat next to you...

Regards,

Pete

We might do something similar for a specific "problem fox." When you get him it is a worthwhile achievement of some magnitude.
But mostly we're too lazy and soft and would consider the method too uncomfortable and involved....I respect your patience and prowess and wish we had not allowed some of those qualities to disappear so readily in favour of gadgetry progress... Yanks, internet, modern appetite for instant gratification mean we lost some of the most valuable things along the way.

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Originally posted by Pete E:
Ian,

Please remember not *all* of us shoot foxes..

Some of us like to sit in a highseat and take pictures, while watching the blue vein pulsing on the side of the head of the person sat next to you...

Regards,

Pete

Yes and some people wander why they haven't been invited back again....

The Vein is just about under control...


FB

Here in Iceland, there are many hunters that put out bait in the wintertime, late December, but mostly in Jan and Feb., they put rocks and some dirt on the bait so the foxes will not be able to remove it.
Then on nights with full moon or a clear sky the hunter goes to the hills or the mountains where the bait is, and spend the night in some cower that he has made in advance.

In Russia we hunt foxes with special dogs, which find them and push them to hunters.

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Tie a Bit of Road kill to a length of bailer twine. Run the twine from the garden to your house , and in through the bedroom window. Tie a wooden spoon to the end of the twine.

When the fox grabs the bait and tries to make away with it you get woken up by the spoon clattering accross the room and hittinf the window, and you whack him with a rifle of your choice through the bedroom window. We have found 3" shotgun shells with SSG's make good the deal as does a 22lr. The Wife tends to get a bit p1ssed off if you start shooting the 308 in the bedroom at 3am....

My freind shoots about 30 a year like this!!

Rgds,
FB

Solvi,

What baits do you find works best, I have had success with small (4"x4") pieces of tripe buried over an area (bury about 10 - 20 pieces in a 20yd area), if no tripe carcass of pheasants after they have had breast removed works well too.

This summer baited an area and coaxed cubs out of a large forestry wind blow, to within reach of my rifle from a highseat. Takes some time but very rewarding and of course you are targeting "known" foxes as opposed to riding around and "bumping" into foxes at night with a spotlight.

Keep whacking them! Would love a chance at one of your white fellas!!!

The most common bait that we use is an old sheep or a ram, but we use anything including horses and other livestock that we can get our hands on.
We drag the carcass to some place where we let them be, for a week or longer before we come and hopefully a lot of them have by then discovered the food.
On a good night it is possible to shoot up to 10 or more.
There is a bounty for the foxes and the government pays for them.
In the summertime, many hunters are on pay role, hunting them.

Solvi.
What kind of fox is that?

Back here we have only two species, the common red and the endangered, red list, mountain fox.
The one in your picture look wery much like our mountain fox, but I guess it´s not.
Perhaps it´s the polar species also found on the Svalbard Islands?

From Wikipedia:

The Arctic Fox (Alopex lagopus), also known as the polar fox and White fox, is a Fox of the order Carnivora. It is a small fox native to cold Arctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere. It is common in all three tundra biomes. Although some authorities have suggested placing it in the genus Vulpes, it has long been considered the sole member of the genus Alopex.

We got two types of them, the white one and the brown one.
The white one is only white in the wintertime

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The weapon is duble rifle cal 12 with's cartiged 70 baby magnum n.3, shooting distance is max 40 meters. Not admitted artificial light, make Hunt just wit Monn light.

I guess you mean no artificial light is permitted, so the only available light is moon light.
How do you identify your target? Isn't it a little risky?

BTW Your English is much better than my Italian, German or Greek.

zzWop,

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How do you identify your target? Isn't it a little risky?

Good optics are a must for this sort of shooting...Most folks use something like an 8x56 scope of the best quality they can justify. Many folks carry binos are well, and night vision kit is also becoming increasingly popular here in the UK..

A full moon helps, and in summer, in the far north, I guess it never really goes that dark...

I've shot a fair few foxes off sheep carcasses only we're allowed to use lamps..The trick is positioning the carcass so the soft belly faces your intended shooting position which must of course be down wind of bait...

Ideally you will have chosen this shooting position such that you can approach under cover and out of sight of the carcass...A bit of fishing line tied to the carcass allows you to feel when the fox starts feeding...That way you only need to turn the lamp on once you know something is definitely there..

Regards,

Pete

zzWop

no problem for identify my target, the red fox make a zig zag walking