Tough fox

[clayton86]

Got this fox the other night and remembered to hit record on my new thermion. She took my shot I clipped both shoulders and she still ran about 200 yards. I’m shooting a 20practical with 35gr Berger’s. She was dead just didn’t wanna die in the field lol. You can see blood spray out with the thermal with each stride she makes. 
 

one of the toughest fox I’ve ever shot they tend to die rather easy. She has a beautiful coat gonna start tanning this one over the weekend. 
 

 

[DanielG]

This is hard to watch.

[clayton86]

13 hours ago, DanielG said:

This is hard to watch.

Cuz I’m predator hunting or the video is all over? 

[SuperDuty]

Last winter I was in the woods hunting and watched two grey fox come running through the woods and run 20' straight up a large oak tree just like a squirrel would. Im not saying climbing branches, but climbing the trunk of a tree very quickly. blew me away! 

[clayton86]

1 hour ago, SuperDuty said:

Last winter I was in the woods hunting and watched two grey fox come running through the woods and run 20' straight up a large oak tree just like a squirrel would. Im not saying climbing branches, but climbing the trunk of a tree very quickly. blew me away! 

 Yeah I’ve seen a red do it when I was just getting into hunting like 20 years ago. Seen a wood chuck do it also while we were fishing. 

[SuperDuty]

These fox went head first up and down. Grey fox are supposed to be the only canine that can do that. 

[clayton86]

I didn’t see this red do it just walking a hedgerow going for woodchucks and there was a fox up in a pear tree. 

[fishballer06]

Excellent video Clayton. Pretty amazing job if I do say so myself. That's a 204 you used?

 

And like others have said, I've seen groundhogs run up trees before as well. I even found the carcass of a dead one in the Y of a tree about 10 feet off the ground once. 

[clayton86]

7 hours ago, fishballer06 said:

Excellent video Clayton. Pretty amazing job if I do say so myself. That's a 204 you used?

 

And like others have said, I've seen groundhogs run up trees before as well. I even found the carcass of a dead one in the Y of a tree about 10 feet off the ground once. 

I use the 20practical now much like the 204 just better on brass. 204 is based off 222 brass and the 20p is from plentiful 223. The capacity isn’t as much but they still scream I’m at about 3800fps. Built the AR so I don’t mind that brass gets flung off into the weeds where as my 204 I was always careful when ejecting and searching for brass after. 

[fishballer06]

10 hours ago, clayton86 said:

I use the 20practical now much like the 204 just better on brass. 204 is based off 222 brass and the 20p is from plentiful 223. The capacity isn’t as much but they still scream I’m at about 3800fps. Built the AR so I don’t mind that brass gets flung off into the weeds where as my 204 I was always careful when ejecting and searching for brass after. 

Definitely. I've seen a few guys do 204 AR builds and my head just spins thinking about doing a full mag dump with those shells. 

[SuperDuty]

I've owned nearly every predator caliber known to man for coyote/fox hunting but I always return to the .223. My normal hunting is under 300 yards so it's fine for that, the ammo is everywhere and cheap, and the accuracy is there. 

 

The 6.5 creedmoor is a lot of fun to shoot. 

[clayton86]

I just bought a 243 on Sunday gonna be my new coyote/bobcat gun. Went with the ruger American predator and put a magpul stock on it. Haven’t shot that one yet only had it 3 days now no where local sells the ammo I want to try they all cary heavy deer loads I ordered and hoping it likes the 75gr vmax till I get set up reloading in my new house. Was eye balling a Henry 44 today. That will be my deer gun though for in the woods 308 and 243 can be field reach out and touch the deer guns