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I was just comeing back from town and had a fox run across the road about 40 yrds in front of me and it was Jet black. was to small for a coyote, and it wasnt a Black cat! and not the guy from Sanford & Son we have about a foot of snow on the ground and its cloudy today! Iv seen alot of Foxs, theres even a den 150yrds from my house, just wondering how rare a Black Fox is?

I saw a few on Kodiak and Afognak islands while deer hunting there. They were at a distance so I don’t know that they were %100 jet black but they were at least mostly black. Sadly I never got one, shot at them bjt never connected. There are scads of foxes on those islands so I don’t know what that does statistically for the odds of different colors occurring but I didn’t live there just visited to hunt for a week at a time and I saw them. Which leads me to believe they aren’t all that uncommon.

I see a fair amount of Red color foxs around my area, and have been told theres some greys also. the den down the road had 6 pups last year, this Black one was about 10 miles from my Home!

Called a silver fox

yep, melanistic phase of red fox.

Where I used to live in interior alaska, up to half of the fox would be silvers or crosses.

Sure are pretty

Yep, Cross.
Hank ,I would've done a full body on that,That's a beauty

Shot that guy in october, wasn't fully prime yet. He is hanging on my wall tanned though. Shot this one as it was chewing on the carcass of the one above.

Don, did you ever catch one in Colorado, I caught one near Aguilar many moons ago.

Yeah, on both sides of the hill. Had one in a litter of 5 at my old house one year. He musta died by fall, as I never seen him again during fur season when it mattered....grin

Dats what we always called a cross fox...


Love to get one someday...

Look to the right of this pic for a big silver fox....he didnt come from Texas like the rest of this stuff...but hes hanging on my little Texas wall anyway....

That is a huge silver! Was it wild or from a fox farm? Technically the first one I posted is actually a cross, just a very dark one. Had a lot of red on its shoulders.

Hank that was given to me, but from the size Im thinking its from a fur farm...

I saw a solid black 'red' fox in the early 2000's while turkey hunting. He came to the call. He was BLACK as black can be. Head to toe.

That’s a beautiful animal!

Had a totally black one playing alongside the road here one summer. It was completely black, no white tipped tail or feet or anything. They're neat critters.

Saw a couple up BC when I was caribou huntin, damn outfitter wouldn’t let me kill em.

Nice Fox’s btw hank

Ingwe, nice wall from Texas.. The aoudad is awesome.. Just on the way home now from a pig hunt.. May go back for axis later ..

Saw one killed on the side of the road in Eagle , ID. bout ten years ago female unit begged me not to go get a dead animal to take home .

I get a few cross and silver every year on my line. Got four silvers this year, more than usual. They are some beautiful critters, taxidermists love them!

Wow, those are something else.

I’ve never seen a cross (Black) but we do see a lot of reds. When I was much younger, I saw a lot of greys but hardly ever a red. Now greys are as scarce as hen’s teeth.

The Fox that I saw run across the road from me looked like Nmillers Black foxs, in his pics a 1st for me!