shed huntin'

[mhay]

#2364

This morning we had 28 degrees and ice on everything. This afternoon it’s near 50 . Decided to walk over to the neighbors woodlot to look for sheds ,,,,,,,,,and possibly get a shot at a rabbit. I zigged and zagged all over the woods finding nothing . But I did get in some stump shooting.

Heading for the house I cut across a little hay field to a brush pile . The dozer operator pushed a lot of dirt into this pile . As I am walking by the brush I spot this rabbit sitting up on one of the dirt piles. I just kept moving slow and nocked an arrow . Turned , focused very briefly ,,drew ,anchored and released .

That da’gum rabbit must have been really cocked . Shot was no more than 20 feet . The arrow cut a hole thru the air right where he HAD been sitting .

Retrieved my arrow and moved on toward home . As I get near the top of this little hill , where I can see over the top I see a fox at about 250 yards . It was within 50 yards of the highway so I figured it would come my way . I picked a spot in the brushline and waited ,,,,,,,,,maybe 2 minutes . Pretty Red trotted by at about 12 yards .

1 1/2 hour hunt ,,,,,,,had a blast. 1970 Bear Grizzly,,56”,,,,45#

[Michael Scott]

#8867

So did the fox get as lucky as the rabbit? Or did you even draw on him? If you did, did you take any pictures? Fox with a recurve would be awesome!

[Etter1]

#8906

Sounds like an awesome day! Rabbits and squirrels are unbelievable at dodging an arrow!

Wish we still had more fox. Our coyotes have pretty much extirpated them from most areas in GA

[mhay]

#9329

I didn’t shoot at the fox . Ohio’s Fox season expired Jan. 31.

Had I taken the shot this is how I would have done it . I would have let him pass by to around twenty yards just to avoid being seen drawing . I would have picked an imaginary spot straight over his back , and beyond him about 20 inches .

I have shot at them before and their REACTION time is so fast they are never where the arrow is when I aim directly at them . They have ALWAYS gone striaght away from the sound of the bow .

If I ever get one there will be plenty of pictures .

We have such a high number of coyotes , which have all but wiped out the little foxes . I hadn’t seen any foxes here near home for some time and had imagined they had become supper for the ‘yotes . It was a pleasure in itself to see this red .

40 years ago the Red Fox was what I spent most of my time chasing . That was before the deer population explosion here in southern Ohio . Before the ‘yotes too. And , before the art of turkey hunting got in my blood .

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