Foxes?

[Erika]

Anyone know anything about foxes besides how to shoot one?

I'd never seen one before, but I've been followed to my car a couple of times by a rather confident one. As close as 5 metres.

They're rather manky looking animals and I'd like to know if they are aggressive?

[DanceswithDingoes]

Dont try to pat it........its probably used to feeding off scraps and associates food with humans....take a bow and a whaistle next time and do the natives a favour. :)

[coach]

I really doubt whether the Fox would attack you Erika ,, they are usually timid animals .

[2Dogs]

Yup....don't try to touch it :)

Those jaws will take your fingers off.

With their winter coat, they are very pretty animals. Often out west while hunting we would come across a Den, and laugh watching the cubs play. Very cute.

I often wondered if you could make a pet of them, but figured someone would dob you in and the Council would destroy it.

[Alan Loy]

Erica that's what happens when you live in the sticks!!

[Luke]

Here's an example of a finer looking specimen ;)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v388/bowhunting/pilbaragunitgoats005.jpg

Doesn't look like the drought's done him any favours.

[Betty-Anne]

I had a pet fox when I was at uni. We found her on the road when she was about 6 weeks old and half dead. She never tamed down even though we got her that young. She used to try to bite everyone but me. She obviously had good taste:)
On a serious note, most foxes (and the one in the photo is a classic example), have scabies. A mange cause by the mite Sarcoptes scabeii. It is extremely transmissable to humans and causes a very nasty, itchy rash that can then be passed on to other humans and pets in close contact with you. Personally I'd be more worried about the mites than being bitten.

[2Dogs]

We should setup a Discovery Channel Section for Jo :)

[STRINGWALKER]

There's this one fox in the office just across the corridor and well.......she said something about bite me..........couldn't quite catch the rest.

[Batman]

There's a few foxes living in the dune scrub above Forster caravan park.
One in particular is not afraid of wandering down the narrow streets on dusk.
He doesn't really care too much about all the wide-eyed grey nomads, sipping their bevies under their annexes!
If you leave your leather foot-wear outside overnight, it won't be there in the morning.
A tourist who lost his best pair of Birkenstocks, found them and 20 or so other shoes, chewed to bits outside the thieves den.:o
I didn't think shoe leather could be that tasty!
AW.

[Kite]

Anyone know anything about foxes besides how to shoot one?



I know my Grandma has a shawl made from one, head, claws and all... really freaks the kiddies out.
If you want to borrow it to wear to out some time let me know and I'll see what I can do;)

[Robert43]

QUOTE=Kite]I know my Grandma has a shawl made from one, head, claws and all... really freaks the kiddies out.
If you want to borrow it to wear to out some time let me know and I'll see what I can do;)[/QUOTE]
:rofl:

[Jason.P]

A fox after a Fox;)

[Steverob]

Whistled one in on the weekend and nailed him at 20 yards with the Bowtech.:thumb:

[Erika]

Whistled one in on the weekend and nailed him at 20 yards with the Bowtech.:thumb:

I think I could reach out and smack this one with a short stabilizer. :)

[2Dogs]

Noooooooooo!..... you'd miss low and blame the fox for moving while you were aiming :rofl:

[Luke]

A little bit of info, in case you're interested from The Bowhunters Group of Australia "Feral Files" - thanks to the Qld Department of Primary Industries.

:silly:

[QUOTE]http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k205/griffo79/feralfiles-foxbanner.jpg

(Vulpes vulpes).

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k205/griffo79/ferfiles-fox.jpg

The most common of the world

[frommy]

The options for control of foxes in Queensland include poisoning, trapping, shooting and fencing. Poisoning is the most effective large scales control technique available.

It used to be fun to try to run them down on the Puckapunyal (Vic) tank training ranges with an M113 carrier, which was nearly as agile as them. :thumb:

But that was around 1970, and would probably be frowned on today.

:D

[Luke]

would probably be frowned on today

:rofl: :lol: Probably.. :lol:

Love it!

8)

[Brad]

Noooooooooo!..... you'd miss low and blame the fox for moving while you were aiming :rofl:


Now that's funny

[Kite]

It used to be fun to try to run them down on the Puckapunyal (Vic) tank training ranges with an M113 carrier, which was nearly as agile as them. :thumb:

But that was around 1970, and would probably be frowned on today.

:D
That shawl I mentioned earlier looks like a fox thats been run over by a M113APC :rofl:
Very attractive.

[Luke]

Thanks Marcus!!!

[Oompa Loompa 3]

You're a deadset wanker posting something like that!

:fist:

Didn't drown in it's own blood like a bow hunted fox though...

[Luke]

Seems Admin thought the same :rolleyes:

Get a life. :fist:

[Oompa Loompa 3]

Seems Admin thought the same :rolleyes:

Get a life. :fist:

Having seen now what both weapons are capable of, I'm dead against bow hunting.

[Luke]

So piss off out of the bowhunting section and stop stirring ****!

:fist:

[Oompa Loompa 3]

Thanks Admin!

[Luke]

:thumb:

[Oompa Loompa 3]

:thumb:

[bowbot]

To take the prey/trophy swiftly and cleanly as possible is the goal of any real bow hunter.

If you dont have a clean shot,stalk to a better vantage point or let the animal go.

This is a basic principle of bow hunting, and I seriously doubt there are people here who consider themselves to be bow hunters, that would cause an animal needless suffering by not following these simple rules.

Bow hunters hide with pride.

[ReG_C]

Its a great thing to have your own set of personal ethics aswell, I hunt to enjoy the great outdoors, I eat what I kill (unless its diseased), if you injure it (non-lethal) follow it up, an animal in distress is not much fun at all :(

[clark]

A good fox is a dead 1.So have a go erika you to could have a picure like this 1.

[Marcus]

That's a nice one!
:thumb: :archer:

[clark]

Thanks mate.Managed to nail him out of my tree stand.He was stalking up on a walaby that was sound asleep in front of me.Got to help out the natives when you can cj...

[Marcus]

What sort of range did you hit it from?
He looks well fed. :lol:

[Juggernaut]

looks like a perfect shot. who needs a treestand when you can just stand infront of a tree with the wind in your face whistling.

[clark]

Wasn't sitting in my stand for foxes.But i'll take what ever comes along!!!!!!!The shot was from about 20 mtrs and he was around a chicken farm so i guess he was well fed...

[Erika]

Sigh. I'm still a wus. I would probably cry if I shot the poor thing. I'll leave it to others to rid the world of vermin.

Nice shooting Clark.

[rachel]

They are cunning little things. When Norm was working at the Zoo in Parkville, we used to watch a fox avoid the cars by hiding behind a telegraph pole (now before anyone says there are always foxes at the zoo, this one was outside). This little bastard would run around and catch things to eat then when a car came would run to the pole and move himself around as the cars went around the corner so he was always in the shadow from the headlights.

[Jim Reid]

what a big well fed handsome feral creature
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fox looks pretty good too!

looks like fox patties for a month, yum! yum!