After a difficult series of nights trying to catch up with some post-harvest foxes, will the ‘curse of the cameraman’ finally lift… SUBSCRIPTION OFFER: We are offering a 10% discount on all Field Sports magazine subscriptions. All you need to…
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The chase is on
Mike Powell delves further into the habits of foxes around mating season, and how you can exploit them Credit: Dgwildlife / Getty Images There are two main times of year when calling foxes can really work well. The first comes…
The heat of the night
Credit: Richard Spiller / EyeEm / Getty Images In between foxing outings, Robert Bucknell remarks on how to get the most out of thermal imaging and how this technology has opened up a whole new world. Once again there’s little…
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Seasonal success
Mike Powell’s masterclass on how to make the most of the various foxing methods available in late summer and autumn
Shy but not Invincible
Once the glut of shooting foxes during the harvest has passed, it’s back to tactics and outwitting them.
Vulpine Armour
During the harvest, I usually get one chance of bagging more than 10 cubs and adult foxes in a night’s lamping. But I recall one year that produced three such double-figure bags, two of which were on consecutive six-hour sessions with the lamp and rifle.
Harvest Foxing Tips
Your first chance to get after the foxes during the harvest is when the combine starts into the oilseed rape or any winter barley. As the combine works across the field in ever narrowing strips, a fox can find itself marooned in a shrinking island of cover. Eventually it will have to make a run for it.
Harvest Foxes
As I have said, once you’re tuned in to the countryside, you don’t need to see a fox to know it’s there. You can read the signs and know what’s going on behind the screen of foliage.
Here comes the harvest
As the year moves on, the opportunities for keeping the fox population under control alter. August is the time when vegetation of all types is at its densest. Harvest is almost here, but not quite.
Harvest foxing tips
A mixed harvest is great news for foxers, so be sure to make the most of it, says Robert Bucknell
