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Fox Hunt
Topic Started: Feb 28 2009, 05:15 PM (155 Views)
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Something is kinda bugging me and I need some input from some of you other hunters experience. Now I'm 47 years old and have been hunting behind a dog since I was a small boy. I've hunted most everything you can hunt with a dog.
I've hunted in many parts of the country with differant types of dogs in a wide variety of terrain. I read an article the other day that described a hunt on a gray fox that lasted like 5 hours. :blink: While I hav'nt run gray fox anywhere but west Texas, we around here have always considered them little fun to hunt as a long gray fox race here is rarely over 20-30 minutes. Here gray fox tree easily and lay pretty straight trails. I don't try and break my dogs off gray fox, most of the time they don't pick much of a tree to climb and the dogs kill them before I get there. Coon run much harder and are more difficult to tree. Now a red fox (which we don't have many of) act like a completly differant species, they run very hard but never tree, when you finally push 'em hard enough they'll go to ground. Are gray fox in other parts of the country really so hard to catch?
Barry Hill
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The fox here in Kentucky will run the dogs until they get bored, then just hole up. Doesn't matter if it is red or grey. I used to be the kennelsman for a fox hunting club, I took care of the dogs and horses, and those english foxhounds, would catch an occasional coyote, but never a fox
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JAMES JAMISON
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I guess maybe they are differant here, I've caught quite a few grays over the years, but the reds I've only seen when we ran them under a barn or shed and I got to where I could shine a light on them. I have never killed one of the reds cause there's just not many of them, I think they look neat. The reds here act so different from the grays. Last winter my Talon dog treed one (gray) after it tried to catch some chickens.
Barry Hill
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Hilltop and James,

James, I see where you were a kennelsman for a fox hunting club. If either of you guys like to read there is an author named Ria Mae Brown that has a series of mysteries that are set in the Virginia Fox Hunting hills and is based around a Fox Hunting Club and its Master of Hounds. These books give a very vivid description of the territory and Fox Hunting and are very lively books. Here is a list of the books in the order they were written:
1. Outfoxed
2. Hotspur
3. Full Cry
4. The Hunt Ball
5. The Hounds and The Fury
6. The Tale-tell Horse
7. Hounded to Death

I have read all of them and can't wait for the next one to be published!

Wendy
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