BC Fox Hunting [Archive]

KB90

12-09-2009, 11:40 PM

Hey so I just spent some time researching on the internet why there is province wide no hunting for foxes and I came up with nothing.

I see quite a few foxes every year and from that I assume there is a healthy population (could be wrong...and probably am...)
Our cousins to the east have seasons for them and was curious as to why we don't.

Does anyone know why we in BC cannot hunt foxes?

Is it a numbers thing, or anti-hunter thing, or something else?

Someone enlighten me :-D

Cheers Kyle

coach

12-09-2009, 11:43 PM

I'm curious about this one too, Kyle. I've seen quite a few over the years and don't really know why they aren't open. But I'm pretty sure there's not much fox hunting going on west of here. East.. maybe..

KB90

12-09-2009, 11:46 PM

Gateholio

12-09-2009, 11:58 PM

I could be wrong, but I suspect that there isn't a healthy population, except in small pockets.

I think I've seen 2 foxes in my life in Pemberton.

Gotta figure the wolves and yotes would pound on foxes.

SLIK

12-10-2009, 12:11 AM

There's a ton of em up here in PG. I see a few a year within city limits.

todbartell

12-10-2009, 12:11 AM

http://predatorhuntcanada.ca/photos/data/500/IMG_6725.JPG

http://predatorhuntcanada.ca/photos/data/500/Feb_17_08_003.jpg

http://predatorhuntcanada.ca/photos/data/500/Dec_26_07_006.jpg

http://predatorhuntcanada.ca/photos/data/500/Jan_28_2007_Fox_005.jpg

coulda killed any of them. I call in a couple almost every year. Neat little critters, and pretty brave.

KB90

12-10-2009, 12:15 AM

Very cool Bartell. I find around here most of them are black. I have only seen a couple straight orange ones.

I would love to have a skinned one for my home one day.

KB90

12-10-2009, 12:18 AM

As for numbers I know there are a lot around quesnel. I see them often while out in the bush. And in town The gook road neighborhood is full of them. In the spring when they have their kits you can go on gook road and probably count 15-20 of them, there was a golf course and they liked hanging around there and stealing balls. I also have one that frequents the empty lots behind my house.

Pioneerman

12-10-2009, 01:12 AM

I know when we were logging in McKenzie area they used to come into the blocks and we could feed them I even had them jumping up on the tracks of my machine for food. they would even take food right from your hand as they got brave enough as time went on

3kills

12-10-2009, 05:13 AM

ROEBUCK

12-10-2009, 08:15 AM

when you get yor trappers liscense you can trap them!!

i caught a crossfox in a 330 conibear on monday!!

it was a big one nearly as big as a yote!!

riflebuilder

12-10-2009, 08:41 AM

Are they open for trapping? In the NWT most furbears are only open to trapping not hunting. In the past when trapping was a more important economical activity they might of listed them as trapping only.

Buy the way that is a beautful cross fox Bartell

KodiakHntr

12-10-2009, 08:51 AM

Gotta figure the wolves and yotes would pound on foxes.

I would of thought that too, but up here we see them on a weekly basis, and wolf and coyote densities don't get much higher than this area....

http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc182/KodiakHntr2/DSC01310.jpg

http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc182/KodiakHntr2/DSC02003.jpg

http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc182/KodiakHntr2/DSC01999.jpg

KB90

12-10-2009, 03:02 PM

Still waiting for many of these so-called biologists and their wisdom ;)

3kills

12-10-2009, 03:20 PM

i know we have a few in the merritt area but i have only heard of them bein spotted on the golf course.

skibum

12-10-2009, 03:29 PM

Spotted my first last week just outside of the loops

JoshCampbell

12-10-2009, 03:31 PM

The gook road neighborhood is full of them. In the spring when they have their kits you can go on gook road and probably count 15-20 of them

those foxes used to chase my cat around everyday to bad they never caught it, but they have been trapped 2 or 3 times but still keep coming back. but i have more foxes then coyotes around the nyland lake area in the past couple years

Lone Ranger

12-10-2009, 03:40 PM

From what I've personally seen of them they tend to stay closer to humans where there's easier prey and less predators. I very well might be wrong but this is my experience. I've seen about a half dozen around the LML, usually along highway right-of-ways hunting small game.. Definitely neat looking critters. LR

dana

12-10-2009, 06:57 PM

Trappers have numerous critters open to them that hunters don't have. I personally don't have a problem with that. The one thing I do find crazy though is one question on the CORE exam is "Where do fox occur in BC?" Who The F*** Cares? Why is that on the CORE exam if they are not a huntable species?

Here's one that figured the traditional rodent wasn't good enough for him. ;)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v145/BCBOY/Wildlife%20Pics/May19204a.jpg

The Dawg

12-10-2009, 07:13 PM

Yep, I always see a ton up here in PG...in fact, theres one that always comes to visit my front yard....walks right through the carport and down the street.

twoSevenO

12-10-2009, 07:16 PM

tons of them in europe. popular to hunt. Very beautiful creatures .... Then again, there are no coyotes, and not as many wolves to prey on them.

Basically, where i'm from, they're the raccoon or coyote equivalent here, especially around farms and edges of towns.

KevinB

12-10-2009, 07:16 PM

The vast majority of animal species have no hunting season, probably because no-one asks for one and I'd imagine fox might fall into that category. They probably aren't seen as much of a predator of the larger huntable ungulates, and as such there never was a 'reason' to have a season. Anyone know if there has ever been a season on foxes in BC?

Sweet photo Steve. That's pretty cool.

dana

12-10-2009, 08:05 PM

Kevin,
That little bugger had claimed that deer and wasn't about to give it up. He even flared his teeth at me. :mrgreen:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v145/BCBOY/Wildlife%20Pics/May19192a.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v145/BCBOY/Wildlife%20Pics/May19200a.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v145/BCBOY/Wildlife%20Pics/May19210a.jpg

dana

12-10-2009, 08:11 PM

This might be the reason why we don't hunt them here. This one actually touched the camera.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v145/BCBOY/Wildlife%20Pics/Nov1029a.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v145/BCBOY/Wildlife%20Pics/Nov1027a.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v145/BCBOY/Wildlife%20Pics/Nov1036a.jpg

leadpillproductions

12-10-2009, 09:45 PM

when i was a kid they had a season out in the caribou i think it was 5.08 shot one then but thats it

bearhunter338-06

12-10-2009, 10:00 PM

I remember open season on fox as well when I was a kid. I think its only been in the last maybe ten years that there hasnt been an open season on the fox.

HighOctane

12-10-2009, 10:21 PM

Up near Tumbler Ridge for this little fella

skibum

12-10-2009, 10:33 PM

"Where do fox occur in BC?" Who The F*** Cares? Why is that on the CORE exam if they are not a huntable species?"

I was told the CORE exam was an outdoor course, not hunting specific.

dana

12-10-2009, 10:48 PM

CORE Hunter Training.....Hmmm what does the word Hunter mean? If the species can't be hunted, then why is it a testable question? Why not also have questions regarding songbirds, frogs, bugs, trees and plants? Species identification is very important for new hunters, so questions regarding mule deer versus whitetail deer, that makes sense. Questions regarding the habitat of non-huntable species, nope, that don't make sense.

Jelvis

12-10-2009, 10:57 PM

Fox are a fur bearing animal, silver fox, red fox, yellow, any fox has a skin for a trapper worth more than coyote.
Mink, marten, fisher, ermine and fox. Some beaver thrown in.
That's why you can't shoot foxes. Fur bearing animule.
Jel -- can't chase fox in England now either like they used to.

Buck

12-11-2009, 04:59 PM

I am looking for a couple of Frozen whole foxes if anyone finds fresh roadkill.We use these for training Drathaars.Thanks