I went out last night about 7pm. I got to my first spot where I'm not allowed to be near the pond. So I set up where I had seen eyes the week before. I put the Power Dogg out in front of me about 10-15yds. I started out with the cottontail distress. After, what seemed for 2mins, I saw eyes in the soy beans about 75yds with my head light. I turned off the caller and went to my mouse squeeker. They weren't interested in that at all. They went left deeper in the soy. A minute later I heard something running down the other side of the hedge to my right. Out pops a red, caught wind of me and took off. I turned the cottontail back on, on low volume for another minute. I heard something coming the lane to the left of me. It was another red. It came within feet of me. I turned on the western river light on my 17. I waited for it to get about 10yds to stop it. The red turned and I could not pick up any eyes with the light. That is how dim it was. The red ran off laughing I think. I turned the caller back on to rodent distress. Yet another red came from my left, a larger red from the first. At this point I flipped up the red lens on the light. That was the end of the fox. It ran off howling/laughing like a coyote.
Now if I had taken the shotgun out off the truck instead I would have been able to clobber the fox over their heads and would have had better luck.
My second stop of the evening didn't fair as well. First setup I saw nothing. The second on the way back to the truck. I set up over a cut corn field. The only eyes I saw were from either an owl or I don't know.