fox sizes

[stevie g 2005 125]

did anyone see the size of the fox that was shot in this months earthdog and running dog mag i seen a few biggy in me time but that was takeing the piss

[dogrun 2]

i know the lad who got it.

waen hunt have taken a few at 30lb mark !!

was out with them last sat and saw a big light coloured one come off the mountain.

i shot a big dog fox a month ago that weighed 29lb,he had taken 30 chickens in just over a month.

not any more though

[Guest DeeD]

stevie g 2005, when did you get your Earth Dog - Running Dog magazine out?

[cragman 2,798]

Steve, I don't know the reason but the last few I've seen dug to and hunted up recently have been really big beasts, even the vixens are showing well. What's the reason...the good summer providing plenty of food? Less foxes so more to go round? (though I've seen six killed this past week, albeit in different areas :ph34r: ). The local keeper has had five in the past two weeks and ALL were in great nick with good coats and weighed a decent weight. A local guy to me was featured in Countrymaids Weekly a few years ago with a thirty pounder.

[madhunter 16]

tell you what a terrier would have it,s work cut out with that fox it is one big fecker

[cragman 2,798]

You'd certainly think so Madhunter, but those smallish vixens can give it out just as much as, if not more than, the bigger foxes.

[Guest mucker]

  cragman said:

You'd certainly think so Madhunter, but those smallish vixens can give it out just as much as, if not more than, the bigger foxes.

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  mucker said:

  cragman said:

You'd certainly think so Madhunter, but those smallish vixens can give it out just as much as, if not more than, the bigger foxes.

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All the more reason to have a decent sized terrier, 20 - 25lbs, asking a 14 lb terrier to work a 30lb fox would be like asking Wayne McCullough to fight Klitscko....... Not even is it?

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

Its not necessarily the size of the dog that determines whether or not it gets pushed about.Weve all heard the saying"not the size of the dog but the size of the fight in the dog".There was never a truer word spoken.You are right about vixens though,fiesty little feckers they can be.