How To Hunt Foxes And Coyote

[Sparky862]

First of you must know how the foxes approach you. They work just like coyotes, they do no directly approach your caller. Instead when you use the caller, it will walk a circle around you and then approach you. You might see a fox too the north, use a caller, and it would approach you from the east or west.

Foxes move VERY slow and they are NEVER in a rush to jog to the location of the call like other animals. Like I said, they move in a circle and they KEEP LOW TO THE GROUND .... ALWAYS. When they enter bushes or a tall grass area they tend to trot through it, when they exit that area in the open field, they go back to their low ground sneaking approach, and move EXTREMELY slow.

You must remember that when you use the caller, they enter stalking mode .. you know, like how a cat stalks a bird and take 30min to actually catch it?? Same goes for foxes.

Now, how should you apporach a fox seeing as I explained how it approaches you. How you go about this is walk around casually like you would until you hear a call or warning call from a fox. Stop DEAD in your tracks right there, asume a crouch position, and look around for a place to hide.

You do NOT want to be in the open or VISIBLE. Keep a eye out at your wind direction while you are crouched, and search for a hiding place in a bush or under a tree where your visual indicator looks like this "-----", you are NOT down wind of where you heard the call come from and you are NOT crawling TOWARDS the call ... instead search for a hiding spot AWAY from the call.

Once you have found a hiding spot you like that will not cloud your vision, provides decent cover, is not down wind of your fox and away from the call, start crawling towards it. Once you reach the location, remain crouched or standed as long as your visibility stays "------" and use your caller.

Scout the area AROUND you as you call because the fox will NOT approach you directly. Be patient and use the caller once every 20-30 seconds. Keep on doing this while you remain still, and scout around you, not just infront of you.

Look carefully as I said they keep low to the ground and they will not be easy to spot, even if they were infront of you. Listen to shrubs and grass as you will hear them move through them or near you.

This does require patients, and would take about 10 actual real life minutes to lure in a fox, if not longer. Just know that when you use a caller, they DO hear you, and they DO approach you. It might seem to you they do not listen or get attracted by the lure, but they do ... they are just sneaky about it and they always take their time approaching you

[Kerbo]

A good writeup. I like how the coyotes/foxes circle in game. They do that in real life as well, always trying to get a sniff of what they're approaching. I've taken many coyotes/foxes in game with the .357 pistol by being cautious and calling them in.

[Ting Ting]

sounds awesome! cant wait to try and get a fox, will be getting the caller when i get home later from work to try out, thanks mate :)

[Sparky862]

Originally posted by Tingting44:

sounds awesome! cant wait to try and get a fox, will be getting the caller when i get home later from work to try out, thanks mate :)

No problem. Hope this helps you out.

[Antiochus VIII Grypus]

Thanks man!

[Sparky862]

Originally posted by IT'S MAUI TIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIME:

Thanks man!

[Snake Bit]

I bagged two coyotes earler before reading this. I'll keep this in mind in the future. Was like bashing my head against a wall because I wasn't paying much attention.

[United Federation of Planets]

I got lucky, caught a fox in a long field with no cover and was able to down him before he could get away. Will keep this in mind for the future

[RexTheDishes]

Weird cause I was classing a fox from across a valley and it was horrible to lure in and I have not been able to successfully call one in for awhile now. They just keep walking or come towards me for about 10 seconds before turning and trotting away.

[Sparky862]

Originally posted by Rexelicious:

Weird cause I was classing a fox from across a valley and it was horrible to lure in and I have not been able to successfully call one in for awhile now. They just keep walking or come towards me for about 10 seconds before turning and trotting away.

Do not over use your lure, it scares them away. And it seems like they are trotting or turning away, when infact they just do it approach from a diff angle

[Ol' Scugog]

Solid guide, thank you.

[Sparky862]

Originally posted by Tate:

Solid guide, thank you.

[Claptrap1988]

This tip really works, but having patience is killing, not for waiting, but for the fact of how many animals sometimes pass you before a coyote shows up haha

[Sparky862]

Originally posted by claptrap1988:

This tip really works, but having patience is killing, not for waiting, but for the fact of how many animals sometimes pass you before a coyote shows up haha

This is true right. I was tempted to shoot so many other animals while luring in a Fox ....

[Zourin]

Foxes/coyotes are hard, but can be done.

The primary concern of the battle is terrain. You need to be able to see the ground. Not grass. Not bushes. Ground. Foxes are low to the ground and trying to hunt them in underbrush is a losing battle. You want this in as much of a 360 radius around your would-be hiding spot as possible.

There is only ONE way to hide, and that's a black-bar visibility. You need a very dense bush or pine tree. Foxes have sniper-level eyesight, and if you're visible at all, they'll walk off.

Next: weapon choice. There are only two. If you can use the .223, use it, and peg it if you can get a clear shot. Ammo doesn't matter so much as landing a center of mass shot. If you are using a bow, use the low-grain arrows and aim off the tip of the sight (assuming a basic sight). If you're using a bow, you MUST have the accuracy perk (Confidence) or you're going to be more likely to shoot yourself in the ass than the fox.

Lastly, luring. Lure once every minute or so. Set a timer. After five minutes, give up look for tracks, but don't run. You need to periodically check to see if you're still dancing or if your partner wandered off. If the fox left, you're done. The simulation will likely warp him in a straight line across the map somewhere. This usually happens when the fox gets downwind of you, picks up your scent, and walks out of range. If you hear a yelp. you're in luck, he still wants to dance with the devil. Return to your hiding spot and repeat.

Good places for fox: Open areas like around the Petershain wind farm. Bad places to hunt fox: the peninsula on the east waterline of Petershain. The east-coast foxes are in ultra-dense underbrush and are universally invisible, even at point-blank range.


Hunting foxes in dense underbrush requires two people. One person to lure, and a second person with a high vantage point to spot and likely shoot.

[Zourin]

Update: I've found a trick to hunting foxes in deep underbrush.

after blowing the lure and finding a fairly isolated bush (always find cover downwind of where you blew the lure) where you can get black-bar visibility, take those first few wasted minutes to trample as much of the nearby undergrowth as possible.

Keep blasting the lure once about every minute or so, and keep your visbility at a black-bar. Good bushes will let you kneel or even stand and keep this level of obscurity. At white-line visibility, foxes will peg you at as much as 50m. They have very, very good eyes, but you should have a few minutes to work with initially.

It takes foxes a long while to get to you, so it pays off considerably to prep the terrain nearby for spotting them. Oftentimes, you only need a few meters of trampled undergrowth to open longer and wider sightlines to the likely approach route.

From there, it's spotting if you can see the area around you, or staying hunkered down and waiting to hear footsteps. If you hit the fox and it doesn't immediately die, immediately blast the lure again. As soon as it's done bolting, the lure should keep it nearby or begin drawing it back in, since its effect lasts a minute and a half. You have a new window to trample more ground or reposition.

Since doing this, I've never failed to down foxes. I've missed shots and gotten them to come back, sometimes 3 or 4 times. If the wind changes, I've been able to keep them in the dance with the lure call while I reposition downwind. It takes alittle while, but it's a fair grip of cash to bag one.