Fox Barks

[foxtrot]

Does a call made to resemble a fox barking have any value as far as actually calling anything in?

[predator77]

I have used the red fox rally that foxpro has and went into a red fox distress and called reds in.

[foxtrot]

P77,was this early season or late?You would think that this type of call would be more effective closer to mating but maybe not.

[predator77]

It was in the first Jan I had my FX5. Yes, it was in mating season. When I start hearing barking at night I will sometimes strat off with the barks and glass for eyes before hitting a distress of any kind.

[foxtrot]

Thanks,hoping to appeal to their mating urge instead of their stomach.

[uncle buck]

Barking either fox or coyote usually means that you have been busted if you hear it when your calling....
Barking fox could mean that there are coyotes in the area too..Fox are warning other fox that danger is in the woods.
I have heard coyotes barking during the early hour before the deer openers.. Coyotes warning every coyote that man is in the woods.
Crit-R-Call Major Boddicker kind of tells you to stay away from doing barks... The only time I will do a bark in relation to coyotes is when I do the Male Coyote Challenge.  Just two barks and a short howl make up the cadence for this particular coyote vocal...


During the mating season...I have had some luck calling in reds by allowing the Johnny Stewart Red and Grey combo AKA on the older cassettes it would be the Red and Grey fight.... This will bring in reds running right to the speaker.  I have yet to bag a grey with this sound but have harvested quite a few red fox....

Many times when your calling and all of a sudden you hear a fox barking in the distance.. You probably called them in..Did not see them they saw you.  They run to just inside heavy cover and bark...Both Greys and Reds will do this.

This year I have on two occassion called in two different barking coyotes.....Worst yet the coyote was giving me the dreaded WUFF<  WUFF< WUFF The coyote would not reveal itself.  It barked or Wuffed  and barked and barked at me.  Actually It was in gun range too...However I had one of them cheap cash register head lights on... Had I a Nitelite head light on a broom handle or on my head I just might of placed a 17 Rem CF right between it's eyes...
It was truly a educational experience being wuffed!!!!!!


Get your hands on Major Boddicker Song Dog Book that comes along with the call. It expalains barks and wuff.  Some barks are aggressive others are joy barks.  Kind of hard to determine if it's a Joy bark or a aggressive or you have been had bark...
The joy bark would be when a coyote is chasing a deer or a rabbit and trying to run it down...Ye old  plain bark means you ahve b een had.....

[jaspr1]

I once had a pair that would do this every time I would play Gray Fox pup tape. Would bark the whole way in and then just stay out of range, running back and forth..Awesome..Took my brother along to hear this and a .22rifle, when male hopped up on a stump to check it out he got one to the head...Maybe if you played a distress sound and used the bark sparingly, you could stir something up..That's what experimenting is all about...what do you have to lose??

[scott]

one early sunday morning i was playing grey/red fight, i can hear this fox start barking about 100 yards upwind of the call and me,  he walked down the side of a pond barking the whole time, he get down wind of the caller and jumed up on the bank to get a better look i hit him behind the should with the .17 hmr.   he was clearly coming in to fight and was letting them know the whole way. 

[foxtrot]

I use to think that when they barked you were busted and in some cases that is true,but it happened several times this year when calling Reds, they would bark from several hundred yards away and in almost every occasion they came in on the run.It almost seemed like they were saying here I come.Had this happen with a gray but mostly reds in the early season.Like U.B. mentioned It seems like they have an excited bark and a warning bark like coyotes.Maybe I'm crazy but I think it deserves some experimentation. 

[Buckwheat]

Foxtrot
Fox barks yea. I hear it alot of different time also. I had some luck with it but most of the time we just seam to bark back and forth until one of us tires. Some day it might get figured out.
Ernie