Well went back to Roosevelt Lake on Wed, had to pick up my small boat, It was getting the motor worked on. Cruised around the lake to check it out and then Thur. morning buddy and I tried fishing and a little calling from the shoreline on North side of lake. Only way to get there. But no luck on fishing or calling. Now for the redemption.
Fri morning we set up watching a draw that crossed a 4 wheel drive trail. If they came in from my right I would shoot and if they came in from the left my buddy would. At about 3 min I notice my buddy aiming his rifle, but not downward towards the wash, up on the hillside. I see a fox coming down. I get my scope on it and figure to let him fire first, I wait and wait. The fox starts to go sideways along the hill and then my buddy firs, MISS!!! I quickly try anget on the fox but he keeps darting in and out of the brush. Finally he is over the top. Fox - 1 Ed/Milt - 0
2nd stand, we setup on the side of a very large canyon, at about 50 yds from the bottom. I turn e-caller on and in less than a minute I can hear a faint click and then the bolt on my buddy's AR cycle, and then a loud "Son of a B.....". A fox showed up just 30 ft below him and he had forgot to chamber a round, lol I signaled him to stay put and let the caller play. In just a few minutes I spot another Grey working along side the other side of the canyon at about 200 + yds. He jumped on top of two different large rocks and would sit and stare towards the bottom. he finally started down as I followed him. Just before he reached the bottom , he stopped. My 22 mag fires and DRT. I continue to let the call run and suddenly I hear my buddys AR fire. Another Grey had come up the canyon bottom and my buddy got him also. Fox Fox - 1 Ed/Milt - 2
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3rd stand, We setup near a spring at the bottom of the same canyon about a mile up the canyon. Start the e-caller and at about 5 min I see a Grey coming down the opposite hill side and before I can raise my rifle Bang !! fox down. I let the caller play a couple minutes and then change the sound, no more than 30 seconds a Grey pops up and runs straight at the caller hanging in a tree, again just as I raise my gun, Bang !!! fox takes off running and I get one shot going up the other side but a clean miss. Fox -1 Ed/Milt - 1
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Forth stand, we drive up the mountain and down into another draw, theres a large water tank that the rancher pumps water from to out laying small concrete tanks. We decide to walk up the bottom a few hundred yds and set up. Again we setup up where I would see fox coming from one way in the draw and Milt would see them from the other direction. I look at my watch and its been 10 min and think well nothing is coming in. I can see Milt raise his gun directly above us on the mountain side and theres a very small Grey no bigger than a tree squirrel peering over the cliff looking down towards the caller. I watch as my buddy lowers his rifle and looks at me and lowers one hand to the other, indicating to small. We both watch the fox and it seems like forever, so we stand up and it blasts back into the brush. Fox -1 Ed/Milt -0
We make one more stand and nothing shows and its about 11 am so we figure to go back to camp and pack up.
The Bobcat never showed up and the way the weather is warming up at Roosevelt, I doubt I will call again there. It got close to 80 deg on Fri and the pelts arent going to be any good very soon. But 7 Fox called in the first four stands is very good as far as I am concerned. we really should have had a shotgun gun along, which probably would have gotten a couple more, and of course the one Milt hadnt chambered a round, lol
Believe me I gave him hell, lol
