This one's been thinning out the chicken coup for a couple weeks and also got one of our kid's cats. Spotted him creeping up on another cat last evening and placed a 40gr V-MAX in his boiler room, DRT. Stunk to high hell and was covered with every manner of tick imaginable. My first fox, seen quite a few but never had a chance to shoot one. Gun is a Sako AI .223 Lightweight Hunter, Leupold Vari-X IIc 4-12x40 AO, Harris bipod, Montana sling. Enjoy!



Scott

That'n will make a dandy mount......

Good one to have dead and super looking rifle.

Congrats.

Haha, nice. And your trophy pics make me laugh every single time too.

So....your Vixen killed another vixen, or did it kill a reynard?
either way...good shootin'!

Dito on the nice shooting

Sharp rifle and good shooting..More of life's problems should be handled this way....

Thanks for the kind words. Pretty interesting animals, not at all dog-like. Really high strung, sniffing, pissing, and running around like crazy. This ones taking a permanent dirt nap. My favorite rifle, laser death ray accurate and light weight. Ideal or my style of hunting.

Scott

Woodshed: Good job on that predator!
Keep up the good work.
What state are you in by the way as that Fox is quite differently colored than the ones here in SW Montana?
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

Nice shooting , but he or she couldn't be eating to many chickens , looks like it was starving . Was it nursing Pups ?

Awesome rifle! Sako Vixen, GOOD......fox vixen, BAD.

Trying to get it's summer fur. Most fox I see this time of year are downright butt ugly. And as for the skinny part........ They really are that skinny, even healthy ones, not much too em at all. It's just there winter fur hides them bones pretty dang well.

Nice rifle!

huntsman,

that's a great pic, especially so with the visual of the tape included for reference.

unless a guy kills and skins a fox, they typically do not realize how small they really are--and it's rare to see an ounce of fat on one.

we don't have many fox left around here--they were plentiful in the 1960's through the early 1980's, but these days old reynard is rather scarce.

the full grown reds around here would average about 12 pounds--about three pounds heavier than my wife's old pomeranian dog that she used to have.

I took that pic to prove to a know-it-all, that reds really weren't the 10-12 inches thick, that he was spouting.... And that fox was bigger(and fluff-ier) than the one he was showing his ignorance on.

I also got a cat killer, a couple weeks ago. 47 yards with a Model 74 Winchester, .22 LR.

Hit her right above the right eye.

that is an all too common mistake that some of these guys make (think "tin horn amatuer")--they seem to think that these fox are collie sized critters.

i remember tracking one when i was a kid, and when i saw that it had squeezed through the single square of a sheep fence (about 4-5 inches across the square), i knew right then and there they had a small ribcage, though i hadn't even shot one yet.