Hunting days USA

[Varminator 125]

Yes

[Yankeeterrier 94]

Vixen and 4 kits. These are living on a nature center (preserve) in town. Good to see though! 

[fireman 10,774]

Don't you folks ever use a locator set up ?.

[Varminator 125]

Haven't needed one shallow this way

[EDDIE B 3,120]

Do any of you lads in the U.S dig fox? I see lots of digging photo's but very seldom see fox on the end of it. Must be plenty of fox's over there.

[Yankeeterrier 94]

5 hours ago, EDDIE B said:

Do any of you lads in the U.S dig fox? I see lots of digging photo's but very seldom see fox on the end of it. Must be plenty of fox's over there.

This is the first year in 4 years I’ve seen a fox and it was in town. Coyotes have really pushed them out of the area. I talked to a couple guys this week that know the areas of a few but I really don’t know if I want to hunt them with their population being so low the past couple years. 

[foxdropper 17,092]

Could always dig and release mate 

[Yankeeterrier 94]

5 hours ago, foxdropper said:

Could always dig and release mate 

I have considered it. It’s way too early for me to worry much about any hunting other than rats and the like. We will see how the summer is for them. 

[Yankeeterrier 94]

We had a pair of gray foxes that lived under an old shed by my parents probably 8-10 years ago. They had a few kits. All of them got rabies/distemper and were killed because of that but that was a year that predator numbers were incredibly high. The rabbit population was shit witching a 45 mile radius of where I live. Coyotes got hunted pretty heavy that year so I’d assume we are close to the up swing on this current cycle. Guys have been huntin coyotes real hard so it’ll be interesting to see if the fox can rebound. 

[Jambalaya 304]

I work drifts and root  washes the majority of he time they pull the vermin out to me but I do dig sometimes. 

 

How did the men before the invention of the locating collar work and dig their dogs?? 

Common sense goes a long way..

[Jambalaya 304]

Did a little drift working today.. just need a good hard worker and they'll bring em to ya..

[Mooching Celt 658]

16 hours ago, Jambalaya said:

How did the men before the invention of the locating collar work and dig their dogs?? 

With a great deal of skill rarely practiced today.......that and a vocal dog(s)

[fireman 10,774]

On 16/04/2018 at 00:18, Jambalaya said:

I work drifts and root  washes the majority of he time they pull the vermin out to me but I do dig sometimes. 

 

How did the men before the invention of the locating collar work and dig their dogs?? 

Common sense goes a long way..

Doubled up some of the time,in deep places where it was luck if they could hear the dogs or with nervousness when they weren't totaly sure if they knew what they were doing during their time of learning the ropes.But these days we have electronic locators that can find at 60 meters deep and to have one on a dog when you need it is common sense,being a careless fool is having it at your disposal and ignoring it.....

[foxdropper 17,092]

I'e been to states several times and never seen any locator type unit being used or for sale at any of the huge hunting stores .Hound trackers ,GPS but no terrier locators .

[Yankeeterrier 94]

8 hours ago, foxdropper said:

I'e been to states several times and never seen any locator type unit being used or for sale at any of the huge hunting stores .Hound trackers ,GPS but no terrier locators .

They’re tough to find. I’ve heard Johnson telemetry sells a few, otherwise the guys I know that use them got them from over there and got killed with shipping. 

Debens you can get over here however?