Re: Best gun for fox hunting
[Re: Davycrocket]
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10/26/20 08:08 PM
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ScottPhillips
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Savage Model 24-- 22 mag 20 gauge
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Re: Best gun for fox hunting
[Re: Davycrocket]
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10/26/20 08:09 PM
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danny clifton
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i really like my hornet for fox
Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
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Re: Best gun for fox hunting
[Re: Davycrocket]
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10/26/20 08:47 PM
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bleeohio
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bleeohio
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If all you're after is fox and not coyote, it doesn't take much to take them down. I've dispatched plenty in sets with a pellet gun. If calling at night a good tight choked shotgun will get the nod but daytime I would agree with a 17/22 mag. Here, day or night calling though ,they hang up a lot further away. Not so quick to want to rush in on a coyote. Might want to look at the fmj .223.
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Re: Best gun for fox hunting
[Re: Davycrocket]
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10/26/20 08:52 PM
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trappermac NY
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22 mag or 17 wmr. Have used both myself, prefer the 17 wmr. I also hunt coyote with a 22-250, have shot a few fox with it and yeah, alot of sewing.
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Re: Best gun for fox hunting
[Re: Davycrocket]
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10/26/20 11:27 PM
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In the early 1960s, my brother, a friend and myself were one of the first group of people to night call fox in my part of Ohio. We could get reds into 30 to 35 yards and greys into about 20 yards or closer. We used full choke 12 ga. shotgun using 2 3/4, #4 shot. After others found out about it there were several others trying it. Of course there were no fancy electronic callers, only Burnham Bros. hand callers. Most of the other groups didn't practice with their callers and made horrendous noises trying to call and or just trying to shoot too far out. At this time the foxes started getting spooky and would lay up at about 50 to 60 yards out.
My brother bought a double barrel ( don't remember make) 10 ga. With gun we could kill them out to about 50 to 60 yards. We still used #4 shot and I think the shells were 3 or 3.5 inches. Don't remember that either.
We never had any fur shot up bad and I skin and stretched all of them.
Garry-
“Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.”
Have been trapping 77 years…
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