40 pound foxes.

[Born Hunter 17,763]

On 26/02/2018 at 20:55, Lutra Lutra said:

While on the subject of foxes and of being somewhat gargantuan in size, and it is often with great glee that foxes conjour such happiness and delight,esecially to the people who hunt them either by gun or better still by a good single Terrier which has been dug to to.

Many years ago people and especially the (Terrier men), such news often brought great  surprise amongst such hunting folk in general. However, through practical experience it was the somewhat smaller foxes that proved to be much more worthy of an a opponent.

"How many times has a good sized Dog-fox seeked refuge behind a small scrawny, diminutive vixen; a vixen that lacks size, but makes up in guts.

Many years ago a large dog Fox was ran to ground with a Collie x Lurcher, and every terrier sent to evict such a fox was met with severe punishment. Eventually the Fox was accounted for and weighed the grand old weight of just a tad over 21and a half pounds. A good sized fox produced in the vicinity of Newark in Nottinghamshire.

In many of the sandy locations within the dukeries in Nottinghamshire there has often many a good sized fox accounted for. Also on so many occasions, especially regarding small Foxes many Terriers can find themselves severely knocked about.

Also many, many years ago now (Bert Gripton) had a very large sized Foxes mask on his cottage wall. And he often remarked upon the large size   due to the the fox being fed upon an imbalance of hormones fed to capons. Another wonderful spectacle, especially within the vicinity of Nottinghamshire, is of the different colours within the fox population and many jet black Foxes have often been recorded. "Catching Foxes is such a wonderful experience.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That 20.5lber I mentioned earlier was killed very close to Newark too.

[Rabid 1,936]

This is not only the biggest one I've ever had, but by far the biggest I've ever seen.

lads talk about them the size of a German shepherd, that's exactly how I described this one, am still trying to find the pic showing the full fox. To give some idea,  the bottom of the second pic on the left hand side is the top of a 3 foot slab leaning against the wall. The foxes nose was brushing the floor.

[neil cooney 10,416]

So Rabid, at 23 lbs could you see a fox reaching "nearly" twice that weight ?

[Rabid 1,936]

35 minutes ago, neil cooney said:

So Rabid, at 23 lbs could you see a fox reaching "nearly" twice that weight ?

Not in a million years, it would have been a horse.

 

perhaps if it lived at McDonald's, worked in a gym, and had an addiction to steroids, it might have got bigger, but 40lb would be some big arsed fox

[Born Hunter 17,763]

Which raises the question, what about a genuine thirty pounder? 

[Rabid 1,936]

1 hour ago, Born Hunter said:

Which raises the question, what about a genuine thirty pounder? 

I think that could be possible, I don't for one moment think I shot the biggest ever fox in the country, but a 30 would be a beast

[Born Hunter 17,763]

13 minutes ago, Rabid said:

I think that could be possible, I don't for one moment think I shot the biggest ever fox in the country, but a 30 would be a beast

Be a hell of a sight watching him hit a net! It'd look twice the size of a dog of the same weight, as they seem to.

[Greyman 28,284]

intereseting that many people think an urban fox is bigger than a country fox due to a surplus of food were as in truth, study,s have shown the complete opposite and it's now believed that country fox,s are on average 40 percent bigger than urban fox,s and are evolving into a sub species, I had a massive tri coloured fox on one of my cams last year and a really small jet black long haired one as well, but in general the ones in my garden are tiny in comparison to the ones on my trail cams out of town 

[EDDIE B 3,162]

I think a lot of it is to do with genetics. The two biggest fox's I've ever seen, we're lamped in the same corner of the same field, with two or three years between each one. They were considerably bigger than any other fox I've ever seen, but didn't bring em to weigh. Nothing near 30 pounds though, but big enough to forever stick in the mind.

[Aussie Whip 4,096]

I was shooting roos(legally) about 25 years ago in far western nsw on a massive property and the foxes would follow the ute around waiting for the shot and the cleaning of the roos.Not unusual to see a dozen foxes sitting like dogs waitng for the spoils.I never weighed one as nobody there bothered shooting them,but they were big animals about the size of a kelpie.There were heaps of rabbits there in those days but the foxes preferred the free feed.I think the large amount of food always available created their bigger size.

[jiggy 3,209]

I left a huge fox to taxidermist and when it came back it was less than average. I often wonder do they have a spare one out back that nobody collected and dish it out. I don't think it's my fox.

[EDDIE B 3,162]

1 hour ago, jiggy said:

I left a huge fox to taxidermist and when it came back it was less than average. I often wonder do they have a spare one out back that nobody collected and dish it out. I don't think it's my fox.

He f****d it up lol