Hunting for a fox

The habitat of the fox is great: it is distributed literally in every region of our country, even in the tundra, the Kuril Islands and Sakhalin. This is due to its increased adaptability to any conditions of existence.

Hunting for a fox attracts many, being, perhaps, the most popular. There are a lot of ways to get it: everything depends on the imagination and abilities of the hunter. It can be a pen on horses, and catching with a golden eagle, and luring to a mouse squeak, and crouching at the seizure, and with the help of flags.

Rare lovers do not care about hunting for a fox, because it is considered one of the most cautious and sensitive animals.

If the hunter knows the place of fox lairs, then you can hunt right from the salary. The most probable whereabouts of the beast must be circled around, adhering to paths and glades, i.e. The most open places, so as not to frighten him in advance. To attract the fox, you need to put the Pride. Usually it is the carcass of a home-fallen animal, which is placed in an open and preferably high place, not far from fox-favorable places - forests, bushes, etc.

Usually, crows and magpies come to the pride, which help the beast to discover the carcass. Hunters have long noticed that the fox is much more willing to go to the bait prikvannuy these birds, than on nobody untouched.

Satisfied, the fox, as a rule, remains nearby.

Hunting for a fox with a manke is one of the most common. The most important thing in this form of catching the beast is disguise and skraud. You can not attract a frightened fox, but it is important to know that it goes in the direction opposite the wind, so you always need to be in her rear, creeping and moving too against the wind. Otherwise, the fox can feel the hunter and not go to the decoy, which, as a rule, imitates the squeak of the mouse.

If hunting for a fox takes place in a snowy open field, then camouflage must be carefully observed: a white robe with a hood, white gloves and felt boots is needed.

Hunting for the fox begins from the very dawn, at a time when the fox is still feeding. The hunter should carefully examine the terrain while traveling, using binoculars. After discovering the prey, he determines the direction of its further course and either steals it with the help of a natural shelter, or tries to run ahead and there to wait for it to approach.

In winter, especially in February, this red predator starts a rut. At this time, hunting for a fox is especially successful. The beast very often walks during the day, more often meeting groups that hunters call a "fox wedding" - three or five individuals each.

Noticing his future victim, the behavior hunter tries to identify a female among them, then, after dispersing the others, begins to pursue her, driving up to one and a half kilometers. After that, carefully disguised in the footprints left by the female, he waits for the male to return.

Usually two people are hunted by a mouse-mouse, combining a surplus with an approach. One of them tries as unobtrusively as possible to run ahead on the trail of the red cheat, while the other unobtrusively directs it to his comrade.

Already experienced hunters successfully successfully know how to get the fox trail on fresh tracks. According to their characteristic legacies, they determine the victim, who has finished feeding and is going on a couch. Usually the fox is laid near the trunk of a tree, on a stump, a hummock or under a twisted root, and in a field - in bushes, ravines or weeds.

The well-fed beast sleeps quite hard, and sometimes the hunter manages to get close to him for a close shot.

Hunting for a fox with a dog, in particular, with a hound, is especially fascinating. Always smooth gon, especially in the autumn forest, leaves an indelible impression.

In general, hunting for a fox can be considered a sport, including surveillance, persistent harassment and the killing of prey.