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1Shooter
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Fox Sign

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I saw a fox sitting on top of a hay bale the other night. I looked today and found all kinds of feathers and some scat on the same bale the fox was sitting on.
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See how the grass is stomped down around this bale? Is that from fox and coyotes looking for mice and food around it?

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I've heard that fox like to be a little higher than their surrounding ground...think this is a spot that a fox has been checking out? I'm thinking it would sit on top of that (mulch?) mound.

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Pretty sure this is just a woodchuck hole, but what does a fox den look like? I have yet to see one.
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Re: Fox Sign

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Usually a fox den is a rusted out car in the woods or an old barn falling down. The love to shack up in old rundown junk.
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I would blow a hole underneath that bail and set a trap, that would be a gimme
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My opinion would be to make a set at the (mulch?) mound and i would also make a set at the hay bail. If you can snare, i would hang a snare at the fence on the trail and collect some coon too. i would then grab a 220 and slap it right over the opening of that hole to knab that woodchuck and get him out of there for the landowner.
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Re: Fox Sign

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I don't think any of that is fox sign............hard to tell from Wyoming... :D
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I got this gal out of there right quick and in a hurry
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Coon - 10
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Fox - 2
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Re: Fox Sign

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Good job. Make sure to leave some traps there, could be 3-5 more of them in the area..

As for the den question they look like the one you posted. Some fox that den on a fence line or higher ground will have a back door to the den but not always.. More than two holes then you could be dealing with a badger..
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Re: Fox Sign

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that does not look like a fox den at all..............fox dens are dirty, scat every where, food parts, smells like piss.........usely several holes.
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