So, on Monday night one of our horses, Champion, died. He was our first horse, the one that my sisters chipped in and bought for $150. Anyway, while they were taking him out of the pasture, I saw something run by the barn. I thought it was one of my sisters. Then Eva (my oldest sister) said that we were missing 3 chickens. She found one of them, with a head missing. She found 2 other spots with feathers. So we had 3 chickens eaten (or partially eaten anyway) by some kind of varmint. In the morning the one that Eva had found dead was gone. I took my shotgun and loaded it with #2 shot and investigated all of the holes and dens on the property. I figured that the varmint had taken the chickens to their den. I didn't find any more feathers on the property, but I did find the same chicken that Eva had found the other night. It was about 80 yards or so away from the chicken coop. I remembered there were a bunch of dens in our neighbor's woods, so I hiked over there and looked around. I found a single chicken feather, but I couldn't find any dens with chicken feathers around them. So I went back up to the house.
Anyway, I set two 1.75 coilsprings side by side under the chicken coop, and put the dead chicken next to it. I also put a whole dead squirrel there too. I wired one of em off to some pallets, and the other one to the chicken coop. (It was legal to put the traps so close to the bait because it wasn't visible from above.) So anyway, that was last night. This morning Mom said "look at Heidi." Heidi is our goat. She was running around and looking at the chicken coop. We couldn't see anything but by the way Heidi was acting it seemed like I had something in my traps. So I grabbed a .22 and ran out there. Sure enough, as I got closer, I could see a fox. I had caught it with both traps. Both were very deep catches. I was so excited. My sisters came out and took some pictures, and then I shot it. No more chickens for you Mr Fox!

Good job cowboy

Good job! What a feeling of accomplishment catching your first fox, especially one that’s a chicken killer!

Thanks!!!

Congrats!!! Are you going to tan it, or mount it, or????

Wow! Way to go!

Thanks guys!

I've got a few bottles of tanning solution, so I'll attempt to tan it

Good Luck. Remember pics!

Very Good Job

Good job! It’s always exciting to find a catch in your traps, especially when it’s causing problems to the farm animals.

Very good job, and nice fox. Also, it's always good to carry your 22 on the estate . Often you can hone in on a varmint as you see them . My Ruger 22mag bolt gun is always ready and I carry that often . That usually is my first choice in my own ADC work on my area.

Very pretty fox.

Congratulations young man.

Great job and great write up!! Might want to send the story into a trapping magazine. You'll never forget your first!!!

awesome job!

Congratulations!!
Don’t know about Wisconsin regs. Some states allow nuisance trapping . In KY you got to get a permit all the hoops. Might check on if your catch was legal or not. Possum police watch the internet fir pics to hand out tickets

Way to go.Congrats.

Thank you y'all! It's legal. In Wisconsin you can trap em year round on your own property.

Thank you! I was thinking that maybe I could send it in to Fur-Fish-Game.

Congrat's,you never forget your firsts....

Well written story and a nice fox. congratulations......jk