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[Thumper Dunker]

Went out calling monday no yotes just two red foxes, told them to go away and come back gray but they said !@#$#@ . found thier dens tried to get pics but they would not come out and play.Lots of eagles and hawks were out . think the yotes did thier thing the night before .lots of fresh tracks.

[Thumper Dunker]

Have another picture but will not post right its the den of a pair that I have been giving some jacks to 2+ yrs. too fast to get a picture of. need a zoom lens.

[ShooterJohn]

Tim, just stick your arm down the hole holding a jack rabbit. I'm sure they'll come out for a picture!

[Mauser]

Hi everybody! Now there is something I don?t understand. Is it out of season for red foxes in California?By the way: Red is the right colour for a fox.New memberMauser

[MojaveJ]

Next time take a piece of barbed wire and some heavy leather gloves with you stick it down in the hole and twist it. My dad used to do that to get coons out of den trees to get a look at them but you better be ready when you untwist them cause they will be madder than --ll and might want revenge. I've seen more than 1 small coon go up inside my dads coveralls leg and start biting everything it can.

[Thumper Dunker]

Red foxes in the vally are not even native! but they look alot like the sierra red fox thats indangerd. kit foxes are not native either. ps had my arm down tho holes taking pics hoping to get somthing nothing but dirt.

[ShooterJohn]

Tim think of it as noodling for foxes. Just bait up and stick your arm down the hole. Don't forget to add a little jigging technique to get them interested, then hold on.

[Thumper Dunker]

Its just a little fox what can they do? so cute and fuzzy arm was not that far in the den, only to my shoulder Im up to date on my shots. we can do stuppid things at the spur of the moment. would I do it again mmmaybe.

[A17Shooter]

Its just a little fox what can they do? so cute and fuzzy arm was not that far in the den, only to my shoulder Im up to date on my shots. we can do stuppid things at the spur of the moment. would I do it again mmmaybe.

Tim,Next time you feel like noodlin' maybe you'd like to try this hole?Just a little 25 lb badger, how much harm can it do?:DGary

[gunnut]

I must reply to that one Steve. If a legal to shoot varmint ever cross' the line and chases me,,,well I shudder to think of the outcome for said varmint.GRIN I tend to let badgers walk these days as well,,,but if it chases me!!

[ShooterJohn]

When I was much younger a friend and I were trapping and snaring some critters up in Sutter county on a friends land. A badger was making a den into a levee and we could never get a shot at him. So we tried trapping and finally snaring it. Well it escaped the old steel jawed traps, so we went with a snare. We came back that evening and found the snare pulled tight and thought we would pull him out and dispatch him with my .22 pistol, end of story. Unfortunately to get a grip on the snare wire we disconnected it from the stake we had driven in the ground to hold it. One pull on the wire got instant results as that badger came flying out of that hole on the warpath. The only shot I got off was the one into the bank above the hole as it charged past me after my buddy Roy. Man was that creature upset. It almost got Roy but he managed to jump a small ditch and escape. I never got another shot at it and we never found it or the snare. It was even scarier than the time we frog gigged a muskrat and it got loose in our canoe. But that's another story I'll never forget. It's amazing how mad a muskrat can get when gigged and brought into a confined space. We had several holes to patch in our canoe after that experience. Whew, that water was deep too!!!

[bzzrd feedr]

Badgers are mean ba$t@rd$. Don't get to close or corner them. They'll tear you a new a$$hoo.

[Bozsik]

Red foxes in the vally are not even native! but they look alot like the sierra red fox thats indangerd. kit foxes are not native either. ps had my arm down tho holes taking pics hoping to get somthing nothing but dirt.

Both the S.J Kit fox and the Desert K. F. are native CA residents. I think they don't allow the desert K. F. to be hunted because the average hunter wouldn't be able to tell the difference between the two. Their ranges don't really overlap though.db

[Thumper Dunker]

what I should of said the kit fox was native to our deserts and was transplanted into the vally. they look alot like minni grays.

[Bozsik]

what I should of said the kit fox was native to our deserts and was transplanted into the vally. they look alot like minni grays.

I take the kids out of school in the spring and combine an extra week with the Easter break. Last spring we did Anza Borrego, Joshua Tree, Death Valley and the eastern Sierra. As we were exiting the Panamint Valley near Darwin, we stopped for a desert Kit Fox that had just been hit. It was still limp and warm and in perfect coat. I was soooo tempted to skin the rascal and tan it when I got home, but you can't take road kills either. What a waste.db

[Thumper Dunker]

I hate to see road kills even squirrels. Bozik I think that not taking road kills is a stuppid law and liike you said a waste.

[Bozsik]

I hate to see road kills even squirrels. Bozik I think that not taking road kills is a stuppid law and liike you said a waste.

I called the DFG Region II office just down the street from me. The person in there told me that if I had a hunting license I could take road kills that were in season, as long as it wasn't an animal that required a tag. I talked to a game warden, and he told me I couldn't take any road kills, though he doesn't really press the issue if you have a license.SOOO, I guess it boils down to leaving the darn thing there unless you think the warden will be in a good mood the day you get caught. I am opting for the "leave it where I found it" senario.db

[ShooterJohn]

Dave that's the safe thing to do by leaving it. Unless you have it in writing from someone at DFG. Which is something you'll most likely never get. One last thing of possible interest. I know a fish and game person who stopped and picked up a nice fox that had been hit but not badly damaged. He took it into the field office to cape it and they discovered it had rabies. That was probably the reason it got hit. Scary to think you might get rabies that way but possible.

[Thumper Dunker]

Good point!