The FOXPRO Podcast

Ep. 62: Fox Calling with Cliff Martin

Episode Summary

FOXPRO's Jon Collins and Cliff Martin dive into the details of fox calling. Cliff shares the calling sequences that have contributed to his success in the field.

Episode Transcription

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Monday at gofoxpro.com now let's get to

 

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the podcast we've got another new guest

 

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to welcome this gentleman has been

 

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requested by listeners several several

 

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times and we finally got him on here one

 

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of the best Fox hunters in the world Mr

 

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Cliff Martin how you doing Cliff hey

 

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doing pretty well how's it going John

 

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going pretty good pretty excited to get

 

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you on here uh it definitely looks like

 

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you've been uh burning the coyotes and

 

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the uh the coyotes and the fox up here

 

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over the last few weeks how's the how's

 

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the Colin actually been for you the

 

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pictures look great see lots of fox and

 

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in a few few coyotes along the way as

 

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well yeah we usually beginning end of

 

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September beginning October um we kind

 

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of get the itch to get out and uh yeah

 

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go after some fur um so we do some

 

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coyote hunting early on and then once uh

 

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end of October hits Fox season comes in

 

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we'll Target them for for a little while

 

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here and uh yeah it's been been pretty

 

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good here of late if you early in the

 

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season we struggled with um had crops

 

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out in the fields but since since crops

 

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been off it's been pretty been pretty

 

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productive yeah once the once the crops

 

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come down it opens up a lot of ground

 

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don't it yeah for sure well Cliff before

 

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we dive right into the to the thick of

 

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it won't you tell everyone a little bit

 

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a little bit more about yourself uh you

 

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know where you from how long been

 

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hunting all that good

 

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stuff yeah I I was born and raised in

 

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Pennsylvania

 

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about H half an hour 45 minutes north of

 

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where I'm at now up towards Reading PA

 

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and um I currently live in Lancaster

 

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County and uh yeah I've been predater

 

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hunting

 

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for oh it's probably I think I I think I

 

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tried to figure it out before I got the

 

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phone call here it's probably been 20 25

 

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years something like that I've been

 

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doing it yeah yeah um yeah the last last

 

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10 15 it's been a little bit more

 

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serious about it but yeah that's uh

 

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that's a that's quite a bit of

 

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experience you know there's a lot of

 

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newcomers to the sport and you know it's

 

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one of the reasons we got you on here I

 

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know you had a lot of experience and uh

 

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hopefully hopefully we can all learn a

 

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little something from you I you know I

 

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don't I kill a fox or three here and

 

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there every once in a while down here

 

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where I'm at Kentucky we don't have many

 

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Fox Fox at all I actually do have a few

 

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trail camera pictures of foxes on a few

 

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of the places I've got cameras out

 

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trying to find a trying to find a buck

 

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to hunt and I've actually saw a fox out

 

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mousing around the other day just like

 

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right in the middle of the day which I

 

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don't see hardly ever it was like 1:00

 

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in the afternoon and saw a big old red

 

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fox mousing mousing around so I kind of

 

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Mark that down on my onx so I can come

 

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back when our season comes in see our

 

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season doesn't come in till mid November

 

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for Fox so I just had to just had to

 

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watch him uh so you know I would want to

 

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be trying to call him in anyway but yeah

 

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I've seen on in your past videos I've

 

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seen uh Jeremy Bailey roll one already

 

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he did he did yeah there's been several

 

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that's back in the tooth and Claw days

 

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yeah we had him I remember that hun we

 

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had struggled a little bit on the

 

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coyotes and we called some and had some

 

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mishaps with some uh misses I ain't

 

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going to say who missed but uh he uh

 

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well I'll just go ahead tell you Jeremy

 

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missed but I tell you what he fully re

 

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missed a couple CS but he fully redeemed

 

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himself on that fox because that fox

 

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come in I can't remember it either cenus

 

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or Cutter wind or or the call or

 

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something and that thing took off

 

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burning out of there and he made an

 

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incredible shot on that

 

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thing

 

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yep yeah like I said Cliff we're excited

 

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to have you on here and again guys here

 

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here at the fox Pro podcast we want to

 

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pull from the best Predator hunters in

 

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the world and Cliff is definitely one of

 

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them Cliff has been a been a fox Pro

 

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staffer for many years and he's very

 

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well known for his Fox calling abilities

 

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we've had numerous I mean numerous

 

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requests to get cliff on the podcast and

 

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now right here he is so Cliff one thing

 

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that I have definitely noticed when it

 

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comes to Pennsylvania Fox season is when

 

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it actually comes in when Fox season

 

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opens on opening night it's like a it's

 

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like a state holiday uh there's a ton of

 

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buildup for open for opening night and

 

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it's uh you know I know where at the

 

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office at the fox Pro office that's all

 

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they thought about the weeks weeks

 

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leading up to it um I'm sure it's like

 

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that the buzz is like that throughout

 

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the whole state is it just the build up

 

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to opening night of fox season yeah it's

 

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kind of um it's been a big deal in my

 

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life the last number of years it's

 

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something I yeah really enjoy looking

 

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forward to it

 

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um yeah it's uh it's always marked on

 

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the C when it's go time so yeah it's

 

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always look you're always looking

 

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forward to that um Fox season yeah you

 

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know and one thing about it you know I I

 

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see several guys that stay seem like

 

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they stay after the Cs pretty regular up

 

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there but when but when Fox season opens

 

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it seems like I don't know just people

 

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come out of the woodwork it seems like

 

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everyone's hunting it I mean is there

 

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more is there actually more Fox Hunters

 

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than there is your general Predator

 

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Hunters that will go after Kouts too or

 

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or am I seeing that wrong

 

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I would say on this part of the state

 

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probably more so um yeah the southeast

 

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corner or the Eastern side of the state

 

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you definitely have quite a bit more Fox

 

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than you will coyotes um that's starting

 

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to change a little bit in certain

 

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Pockets um there starting to be seems

 

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like the coyotes are spreading out more

 

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and more like I used to to get into

 

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coyotes we had to go to get into cons

 

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coyotes a little bit more consistent we

 

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had to go about an hour North now we're

 

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we got formed in our backyard where you

 

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can especially early season you can

 

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consistently get on coyotes right right

 

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why you know I've been seeing from your

 

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pictures you've been posting on social

 

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media that you know you'll have a great

 

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big old pile of fox and you'll be maybe

 

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a coyote or two in the mix every once in

 

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a

 

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while yeah and it's it's been like that

 

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the last number of years where you get

 

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into um yeah your alcohol and you using

 

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calling for Fox using just all distress

 

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sounds and yeah you'll call in a coyote

 

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here and there um do you ever you ever

 

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get on a stand where you'll call a fox

 

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and a Coy at the same time on the same

 

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stand I I myself never have um I know

 

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guys I know guys quite a few guys that

 

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have in the past um yeah

 

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on yeah well I know when we were hunting

 

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that's a county probably an hour and a

 

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half from here I know my brother did

 

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that one night in where he shot a red

 

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fox gray fox and a coyote on one stand I

 

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can't say I ever did that a little

 

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jealous of I am too sounds like a heck

 

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of a stand right there yeah yeah well

 

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let me ask you this um you know how much

 

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do you get you mentioned you know you

 

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start getting kind of getting geared up

 

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September and stuff like that you start

 

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thinking about calling calling a little

 

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bit more how much do you get out and

 

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call for coyotes in Pennsylvania uh when

 

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when Fox season is not in you know when

 

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Fox season is out you know leading up to

 

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Fox season or after Fox season

 

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closes well yeah in years past um once

 

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Fox season was in then Cliff just I mean

 

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we forgot the coyotes and we went Fox we

 

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were just targeting Fox um the last few

 

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years I've gotten a lot more phone calls

 

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from Farmers saying they want coyotes

 

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killed right so the last couple years I

 

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I mean I had haven't target targeted Fox

 

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near as hard as I have in the past and

 

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we we've done a little bit more coyote

 

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calling throughout the course of the fox

 

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season than I would have in the past

 

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right right one thing I wanted to ask

 

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you about um I know the answer and uh

 

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I've heard you talk about it once before

 

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and then I know you took Mike and Jace

 

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out the other day the Dylan boys and

 

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jaay he was surprised to hear what what

 

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you say about with lights versus thermal

 

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but are you a light you know tell us

 

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about it you you hunt with lights or you

 

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like

 

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thermal um yeah there when we're K when

 

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we're Fox huning I love my lights um if

 

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we're if we're say Friday night we're

 

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plan on going out fox hunting it's going

 

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to be red lights now I I still have my

 

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thermal on my scanner on me and I'm

 

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scanning Fields um it's awesome

 

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for if you hit a fox and and it doesn't

 

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go straight down you can pull your

 

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thermal up and watch it where it runs

 

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and falls over um but yeah if we're just

 

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targeting Fox it's lights are so much

 

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more fun for for

 

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me um now if we're if we're targeting

 

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coyotes then we're we're running all

 

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thermal setups now why why not lights

 

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for the

 

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cows well because thermal is more

 

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productive okay what but but not more

 

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productive for the foxo or is it just a

 

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personal preference type thing you just

 

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like the lights better for Fox well it's

 

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just more exciting seeing the eyes

 

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coming bouncing across the fields um

 

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it's just and I'm not looking I'm not

 

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looking at a screen all night I can I

 

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mean you've seen it I don't know I know

 

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you don't spend a lot of time out Fox

 

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Hunt or uh coyote hunting at night time

 

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more of a daytime caller but like

 

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there's some nights I mean you're seeing

 

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all falling stars and all that kind of

 

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stuff and when you're have your head in

 

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the thermal all night long you don't see

 

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any of that and it's just I something

 

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about seeing those eyes come bouncing

 

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across the field gets gets me going

 

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right and like you said you kind of

 

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taking taking taking in more of the of

 

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your surroundings I guess if you don't

 

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have your eyes shoved into a thermal I

 

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can understand that and and also with uh

 

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with fox hunting some of my spots are

 

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fairly tight um I mean I try to be out

 

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in the open I I like to have at least a

 

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100 yards around me where of visible of

 

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where I can see but there's times like

 

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with with thermal you have no uh

 

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peripheral vision and there's times

 

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where out of the when you're scanning

 

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with lights out of the corner of my eye

 

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I'll catch the eyes and like with

 

0:11:14.160,0:11:20.279

thermal I won't see that till I come

 

0:11:16.000,0:11:22.839

back through and um yeah I I just like

 

0:11:20.279,0:11:25.480

the whole the whole experience seems

 

0:11:22.839,0:11:28.920

more enjoyable for me running red lights

 

0:11:25.480,0:11:31.480

for Fox so you do run red not white or

 

0:11:28.920,0:11:34.320

green it's you're a red light guy red

 

0:11:31.480,0:11:37.440

light guy yep so do you feel like when

 

0:11:34.320,0:11:39.560

it comes to the fox you know I you kind

 

0:11:37.440,0:11:42.160

of answered that the reason you like the

 

0:11:39.560,0:11:44.480

lights but do you feel like you're

 

0:11:42.160,0:11:47.000

actually more successful with lights for

 

0:11:44.480,0:11:48.639

Fox or do you think that if you if you

 

0:11:47.000,0:11:50.839

did like this year with with straight

 

0:11:48.639,0:11:53.200

lights for Fox and then next year went

 

0:11:50.839,0:11:54.760

straight thermal uh which year would you

 

0:11:53.200,0:11:56.760

know say you got the same number of

 

0:11:54.760,0:11:58.959

foxes you got the same number of stands

 

0:11:56.760,0:12:00.760

and all that type of stuff out there do

 

0:11:58.959,0:12:02.519

you think you could actually kill more

 

0:12:00.760,0:12:03.839

with lights when it comes to fox hunting

 

0:12:02.519,0:12:07.360

versus

 

0:12:03.839,0:12:10.440

thermal um for Fox I'm not sure if I

 

0:12:07.360,0:12:13.720

would I think um because a lot of times

 

0:12:10.440,0:12:15.720

I'm by myself box hunting so I don't and

 

0:12:13.720,0:12:17.320

then if I'm coyote hunting I have two PE

 

0:12:15.720,0:12:19.240

you have two people two or three people

 

0:12:17.320,0:12:21.920

running scanners so you can cover so

 

0:12:19.240,0:12:24.360

much ground and I feel for myself

 

0:12:21.920,0:12:27.680

running red lights I can cover area a

 

0:12:24.360,0:12:30.480

lot better running solo now um I know

 

0:12:27.680,0:12:33.240

for a fact well I guess I don't know for

 

0:12:30.480,0:12:35.880

a fact but I would I would be pretty

 

0:12:33.240,0:12:38.199

positive like in areas that I Fox Hunt

 

0:12:35.880,0:12:40.959

and had done well there's more and more

 

0:12:38.199,0:12:42.920

coyotes that if I would strictly go

 

0:12:40.959,0:12:44.839

lights out running thermal or night

 

0:12:42.920,0:12:47.440

vision I would probably kill a little

 

0:12:44.839,0:12:49.160

bit more coyotes when I'm out Fox Hing

 

0:12:47.440,0:12:50.360

right but you don't see it making a

 

0:12:49.160,0:12:52.560

difference you don't think you'd

 

0:12:50.360,0:12:55.199

actually be killing more with thermal

 

0:12:52.560,0:12:58.360

more Fox with running thermal versus

 

0:12:55.199,0:13:00.760

lights in my preference in my experience

 

0:12:58.360,0:13:03.720

I don't know if I don't know if I don't

 

0:13:00.760,0:13:06.959

know if I would um it would take I don't

 

0:13:03.720,0:13:10.000

feel I don't feel quite as uh efficient

 

0:13:06.959,0:13:12.240

as well like with red lights like all

 

0:13:10.000,0:13:13.760

the all the stuff I don't have to think

 

0:13:12.240,0:13:16.720

about what I'm doing with when it comes

 

0:13:13.760,0:13:19.560

with thermal it feels like stuff happens

 

0:13:16.720,0:13:20.720

fast and I feel like I'm a little bit

 

0:13:19.560,0:13:23.279

beyond the eight ball when they're

 

0:13:20.720,0:13:25.120

coming in like that with lights I can I

 

0:13:23.279,0:13:27.040

mean it's I can get your light right on

 

0:13:25.120,0:13:28.760

them my headlight stays on them I spin

 

0:13:27.040,0:13:31.959

the tripod over and if he's staying

 

0:13:28.760,0:13:33.600

there he's dead right right that's good

 

0:13:31.959,0:13:35.360

stuff hey I don't want to pull you away

 

0:13:33.600,0:13:38.240

from it you like your lights run with

 

0:13:35.360,0:13:42.600

the lights that's for sure what how how

 

0:13:38.240,0:13:45.720

do you see the the trend of fox and cow

 

0:13:42.600,0:13:47.560

hunting with the guys that you know uh

 

0:13:45.720,0:13:50.720

and the hunters in your area when it

 

0:13:47.560,0:13:52.639

comes to lights and uh and thermal you

 

0:13:50.720,0:13:55.000

still see a lot of people running lights

 

0:13:52.639,0:13:57.440

up there in that country besides for you

 

0:13:55.000,0:14:00.320

or do you see it more transitioning over

 

0:13:57.440,0:14:03.040

to uh to the thermal game more night

 

0:14:00.320,0:14:04.639

vision um I think it's more guys that

 

0:14:03.040,0:14:08.079

are getting into it are going to be

 

0:14:04.639,0:14:10.320

running lights um some younger yeah

 

0:14:08.079,0:14:12.440

teenager younger teenagers or something

 

0:14:10.320,0:14:13.880

that don't have a couple Grand to go out

 

0:14:12.440,0:14:17.160

and get equipment they're going to be

 

0:14:13.880,0:14:20.680

out there running lights um it's in some

 

0:14:17.160,0:14:23.399

of the areas I go it's not uncommon to

 

0:14:20.680,0:14:26.680

be when I'm out nigh hunting to see

 

0:14:23.399,0:14:30.000

lights flashing in the fields right um

 

0:14:26.680,0:14:33.000

so yeah but I think guys get more

 

0:14:30.000,0:14:35.120

experience I mean yeah if they're

 

0:14:33.000,0:14:36.839

running into coyotes and stuff seeing

 

0:14:35.120,0:14:39.399

some coyotes occasionally or hearing

 

0:14:36.839,0:14:41.600

coyotes they're going to eventually if

 

0:14:39.399,0:14:43.279

they're kind of serious about it they're

 

0:14:41.600,0:14:47.199

going to eventually go night vision or

 

0:14:43.279,0:14:49.680

thermal at some point now let me ask you

 

0:14:47.199,0:14:51.839

about like if you go to these these

 

0:14:49.680,0:14:55.160

areas where you know you have you know

 

0:14:51.839,0:14:56.959

like they're Fox areas but you know in

 

0:14:55.160,0:14:59.720

the back of your mind that you've got

 

0:14:56.959,0:15:01.600

chance a chance possibly at a coyot you

 

0:14:59.720,0:15:03.920

know there's you know there's coyotes

 

0:15:01.600,0:15:05.519

there as well do you still go in with

 

0:15:03.920,0:15:08.079

your lights or do you switch over to

 

0:15:05.519,0:15:10.959

Thermal cuz I know you do both right

 

0:15:08.079,0:15:13.279

yeah I do both I I do both um if I'm in

 

0:15:10.959,0:15:15.839

an area where I know there's an outside

 

0:15:13.279,0:15:18.600

CH a chance of coyotes I

 

0:15:15.839,0:15:20.759

usually the last two years my coyote rig

 

0:15:18.600,0:15:23.320

is always in the truck as well and if we

 

0:15:20.759,0:15:24.920

get out of the truck and we hear coyotes

 

0:15:23.320,0:15:27.480

um then we're probably going to go

 

0:15:24.920,0:15:29.880

lights out and go and kind of Target the

 

0:15:27.480,0:15:31.880

coyotes if we hear them or in an area

 

0:15:29.880,0:15:35.000

where I where I know I can get close to

 

0:15:31.880,0:15:36.959

them right right I got you yeah so the

 

0:15:35.000,0:15:41.519

last couple years the coyo gun is

 

0:15:36.959,0:15:41.519

usually along for the ride and yeah

 

0:15:41.800,0:15:47.480

it's that's good stuff

 

0:15:44.120,0:15:49.240

so if you I guess um so if there's

 

0:15:47.480,0:15:51.480

newcomers coming to the sports you know

 

0:15:49.240,0:15:54.399

there's so much such a big push for

 

0:15:51.480,0:15:57.600

thermal and thermal is awesome uh but

 

0:15:54.399,0:15:59.360

for Fox especially up there in in your

 

0:15:57.600,0:16:01.639

area where you have so many Fox or

 

0:15:59.360,0:16:03.519

Maryland and all those type of States

 

0:16:01.639,0:16:04.920

you I guess I'm assuming you would tell

 

0:16:03.519,0:16:06.120

guys don't be afraid to go out there

 

0:16:04.920,0:16:08.279

with your lights you know if you're W to

 

0:16:06.120,0:16:11.480

get into the game and you don't have the

 

0:16:08.279,0:16:14.600

money to spend on thermal and stuff like

 

0:16:11.480,0:16:17.839

that that lights are still very

 

0:16:14.600,0:16:19.079

adequate yeah they can be very I mean

 

0:16:17.839,0:16:22.680

yeah I

 

0:16:19.079,0:16:25.279

would very effective and preferred by me

 

0:16:22.680,0:16:28.240

um I think the most problems just

 

0:16:25.279,0:16:30.319

hunting with different guys the biggest

 

0:16:28.240,0:16:32.639

problem gu guys get with lights is not

 

0:16:30.319,0:16:35.639

knowing how to run them I think like you

 

0:16:32.639,0:16:38.040

can't be I see guys take guys along or

 

0:16:35.639,0:16:40.319

something and they're shining on

 

0:16:38.040,0:16:42.480

equipment on your gun on your they

 

0:16:40.319,0:16:43.839

shining at the ground all the time

 

0:16:42.480,0:16:45.600

that's the type of stuff will make

 

0:16:43.839,0:16:48.120

lights not effective for you because I

 

0:16:45.600,0:16:50.680

think lights themselves won't scare the

 

0:16:48.120,0:16:52.519

fox but when you shine on something like

 

0:16:50.680,0:16:54.639

the gun barrel or shine on someone's

 

0:16:52.519,0:16:58.199

face the glare I think is what can spook

 

0:16:54.639,0:17:00.199

an animal right so what would be the top

 

0:16:58.199,0:17:03.799

besides for that what would be the top

 

0:17:00.199,0:17:06.480

mistakes that you see Hunters make with

 

0:17:03.799,0:17:08.160

lights um yeah kind of like what I said

 

0:17:06.480,0:17:11.799

there shining

 

0:17:08.160,0:17:14.199

on shining on like on the other your

 

0:17:11.799,0:17:18.000

other partners or shining on equipment

 

0:17:14.199,0:17:20.880

or um like if I'm if I'm close to Woods

 

0:17:18.000,0:17:23.160

I don't like to be shining like directly

 

0:17:20.880,0:17:25.760

on trees and like shining in through the

 

0:17:23.160,0:17:27.799

woods because I think the Shadows that

 

0:17:25.760,0:17:29.320

you're you're creating I think can also

 

0:17:27.799,0:17:30.880

spook

 

0:17:29.320,0:17:31.880

the animals that they're coming through

 

0:17:30.880,0:17:35.000

the

 

0:17:31.880,0:17:37.400

woods interesting I've heard that before

 

0:17:35.000,0:17:40.360

that you cast a shadow that that people

 

0:17:37.400,0:17:44.360

think that's you know Spooks them uh I

 

0:17:40.360,0:17:47.840

have I have next to zero experience with

 

0:17:44.360,0:17:50.039

lights one thing I've heard that uh

 

0:17:47.840,0:17:52.960

about lights that they say some people

 

0:17:50.039,0:17:54.919

mess up on is how they cast the light

 

0:17:52.960,0:17:56.600

onto an animal once it comes out there

 

0:17:54.919,0:17:59.240

I've always heard you want to keep them

 

0:17:56.600,0:18:01.960

like in the bottom part of the Halo or

 

0:17:59.240,0:18:04.960

or something like that how true is that

 

0:18:01.960,0:18:07.720

yeah like I and I try to see I'm out

 

0:18:04.960,0:18:10.440

there calling by myself um I'm scanning

 

0:18:07.720,0:18:13.840

the fields when I see a set of eyes I

 

0:18:10.440,0:18:17.400

look at it with my I keep my scan light

 

0:18:13.840,0:18:20.679

like on it and then I I have my gun on a

 

0:18:17.400,0:18:23.799

tripod and I turn my kill light on I'm

 

0:18:20.679,0:18:26.799

standing kind of kind of behind my gun

 

0:18:23.799,0:18:28.559

but like within like I don't have to

 

0:18:26.799,0:18:32.080

make a take a step or anything to turn

 

0:18:28.559,0:18:34.840

my light on or and I I turn my gun light

 

0:18:32.080,0:18:36.799

on spin my gun and have my light not

 

0:18:34.840,0:18:38.960

directly on the animal but in his just

 

0:18:36.799,0:18:41.080

general direction shining over top of it

 

0:18:38.960,0:18:44.360

a little bit I got you I got you and

 

0:18:41.080,0:18:47.840

I'll keep that light on that um all the

 

0:18:44.360,0:18:50.760

time because I it happens fairly often

 

0:18:47.840,0:18:51.919

if you have a fox out at 250 or

 

0:18:50.760,0:18:54.480

something like that and he's just

 

0:18:51.919,0:18:57.280

working his way in slow so you're

 

0:18:54.480,0:18:59.679

going I mean you're keeping the sound on

 

0:18:57.280,0:19:01.480

and I keep my Kill Light shining on in

 

0:18:59.679,0:19:04.120

his Direction and then I constantly

 

0:19:01.480,0:19:05.760

scanning around me as I'm as that one's

 

0:19:04.120,0:19:08.520

coming in because it happens fairly

 

0:19:05.760,0:19:10.840

often where you have another one that

 

0:19:08.520,0:19:13.000

comes in faster or comes in from a

 

0:19:10.840,0:19:16.080

different direction oh I got you I got

 

0:19:13.000,0:19:18.919

you so I like to always have a light

 

0:19:16.080,0:19:21.600

once I see the once I see the fox I like

 

0:19:18.919,0:19:24.400

to keep my scan light in their Direction

 

0:19:21.600,0:19:26.000

and then get my kill light on them or

 

0:19:24.400,0:19:28.440

not really on them but just shining

 

0:19:26.000,0:19:30.640

above them then I feel like my movement

 

0:19:28.440,0:19:34.679

behind the gun I can I can still move my

 

0:19:30.640,0:19:36.559

head and still be all right so I've I've

 

0:19:34.679,0:19:39.080

seen over the years that you'll

 

0:19:36.559,0:19:42.159

participate in a few

 

0:19:39.080,0:19:44.039

contest Predator hunts up there and I've

 

0:19:42.159,0:19:48.039

seen you've walked Walked Away with a

 

0:19:44.039,0:19:50.320

few wins and you know top you know two

 

0:19:48.039,0:19:53.360

or three finishes always always make a

 

0:19:50.320,0:19:55.559

good showing so you're winning those

 

0:19:53.360,0:19:58.360

contests running

 

0:19:55.559,0:20:00.120

lights yeah the the last number of year

 

0:19:58.360,0:20:01.799

I mean unless it's a strictly a coyote

 

0:20:00.120,0:20:05.080

hunt then I would be running thermal but

 

0:20:01.799,0:20:07.159

it's if Cliff has Fox killed pal Fox

 

0:20:05.080,0:20:09.480

there he was running lights that's

 

0:20:07.159,0:20:11.440

awesome and guys go check out Cliff

 

0:20:09.480,0:20:14.200

Martin's Facebook page you'll see what

 

0:20:11.440,0:20:16.120

I'm saying he'll usually have a pile of

 

0:20:14.200,0:20:17.480

fox and like I said I've seen on the on

 

0:20:16.120,0:20:19.840

the contest where you all have them

 

0:20:17.480,0:20:22.280

hanging off the deal or laying there on

 

0:20:19.840,0:20:24.559

the ground and there's a you know you

 

0:20:22.280,0:20:26.200

know truckload of the things and you've

 

0:20:24.559,0:20:29.360

done every bit of that with lights I'm

 

0:20:26.200,0:20:31.320

sure you might be beating people with

 

0:20:29.360,0:20:34.240

thousands and thousands of dollars of

 

0:20:31.320,0:20:37.120

thermal and I think that's pretty

 

0:20:34.240,0:20:39.919

impressive yeah and like I said I so I

 

0:20:37.120,0:20:42.400

think for myself I don't I don't yeah

 

0:20:39.919,0:20:44.320

for fox hunting I don't think I need the

 

0:20:42.400,0:20:46.960

expensive equipment and which the

 

0:20:44.320,0:20:48.039

thermal is incredible it's fun to use

 

0:20:46.960,0:20:50.799

it's

 

0:20:48.039,0:20:52.360

awesome and I like even when I'm out

 

0:20:50.799,0:20:54.440

there fox hunting with red lights

 

0:20:52.360,0:20:58.600

thermals always on me I'm using that to

 

0:20:54.440,0:21:00.919

recover animals or scan Fields like

 

0:20:58.600,0:21:03.080

occasionally you'll see one way out with

 

0:21:00.919,0:21:06.799

the thermal that I don't see with lights

 

0:21:03.080,0:21:08.360

and I'll be able to either move on it or

 

0:21:06.799,0:21:10.559

coming from a different direction or

 

0:21:08.360,0:21:12.919

whatnot so the thermal is always on me

 

0:21:10.559,0:21:14.960

but I'm not running it okay I I got you

 

0:21:12.919,0:21:17.520

so like even if you're on stand with

 

0:21:14.960,0:21:19.520

lights for Fox you still you a lot of

 

0:21:17.520,0:21:21.880

times have a scanner scanner with you

 

0:21:19.520,0:21:24.400

hanging around your neck or or whatever

 

0:21:21.880,0:21:25.559

correct y I got you I got you well I

 

0:21:24.400,0:21:27.279

want to ask you another thing about the

 

0:21:25.559,0:21:29.400

contest I actually wasn't planning on

 

0:21:27.279,0:21:31.400

talking about contest stuff but it kind

 

0:21:29.400,0:21:33.720

of just popped in my head here and

 

0:21:31.400,0:21:37.760

talking about some of your impressive

 

0:21:33.720,0:21:39.440

finishes and stuff like that um how does

 

0:21:37.760,0:21:41.080

is there any kind of scouting that goes

 

0:21:39.440,0:21:43.000

in for those contests you know like when

 

0:21:41.080,0:21:45.720

are Fox contest because how do you even

 

0:21:43.000,0:21:47.919

how do you Scout for Fox besides for

 

0:21:45.720,0:21:51.120

just going out and looking for them and

 

0:21:47.919,0:21:54.400

and that type of stuff well some of that

 

0:21:51.120,0:21:57.039

is yeah the 25 years of hunting in the

 

0:21:54.400,0:22:00.159

same general areas right right you know

 

0:21:57.039,0:22:03.480

your ground yeah I know the ground um

 

0:22:00.159,0:22:06.679

and I yeah over the years I've like if

 

0:22:03.480,0:22:08.039

we're in a hunt I'm I mean we're not

 

0:22:06.679,0:22:11.679

spending a whole lot of time in the

 

0:22:08.039,0:22:15.360

truck we're I have Farms I have routes

 

0:22:11.679,0:22:18.279

that we go and I mean you're get out of

 

0:22:15.360,0:22:20.760

the truck you're calling a stand for 10

 

0:22:18.279,0:22:23.799

10 15 minutes well in a hund it's 10

 

0:22:20.760,0:22:25.559

minutes max and you're back in the truck

 

0:22:23.799,0:22:28.360

half mile mile down the road and you're

 

0:22:25.559,0:22:30.039

back out of the truck right and it's so

 

0:22:28.360,0:22:32.840

it's it's kind of a vicious cycle all

 

0:22:30.039,0:22:35.400

night long so in other words what what's

 

0:22:32.840,0:22:37.520

winning at is is woodsmanship knowing

 

0:22:35.400,0:22:39.679

your ground having solid game plan and

 

0:22:37.520,0:22:43.360

not making any not having any wasted

 

0:22:39.679,0:22:47.480

time yeah wasted time and and I hear it

 

0:22:43.360,0:22:50.679

so often at Hunts is like guns got to be

 

0:22:47.480,0:22:53.559

um yeah guns got to be dowed in like in

 

0:22:50.679,0:22:56.799

a hunt like if I'm not if I'm not

 

0:22:53.559,0:22:59.360

killing yeah know 90 97% of the stuff

 

0:22:56.799,0:23:01.720

I'm shooting at I'm not yeah when when

 

0:22:59.360,0:23:04.159

the gun cracks fur's got to be laying

 

0:23:01.720,0:23:07.360

out there hey I like it that's something

 

0:23:04.159,0:23:09.400

I always say in in a uh in my seminars

 

0:23:07.360,0:23:12.559

When the Smoke Clears I want stuff

 

0:23:09.400,0:23:15.440

laying on the ground that's

 

0:23:12.559,0:23:18.320

correct all right well I want to go back

 

0:23:15.440,0:23:21.640

to uh talking about like the opener of

 

0:23:18.320,0:23:24.120

fox season and how how popular that is

 

0:23:21.640,0:23:27.440

up there um you know I think it just

 

0:23:24.120,0:23:31.840

goes back to how wonderful of a hunting

 

0:23:27.440,0:23:34.720

tradition Pennsylvania has I mean um

 

0:23:31.840,0:23:37.679

there are a ton of hunters in your state

 

0:23:34.720,0:23:40.320

which you well know and when I say tons

 

0:23:37.679,0:23:44.279

people Pennsylvania has like every

 

0:23:40.320,0:23:47.600

single year 800 or 900,000 some licensed

 

0:23:44.279,0:23:50.360

hunters in the field every single year I

 

0:23:47.600,0:23:54.039

mean go look it up I think it's one of

 

0:23:50.360,0:23:56.360

the I think it's one of the the heavier

 

0:23:54.039,0:23:58.159

or like the most licensed state for come

 

0:23:56.360,0:23:59.960

to hunting it's one it's one of it's

 

0:23:58.159,0:24:03.200

always it's

 

0:23:59.960,0:24:06.400

always yeah yeah and and the thing is

 

0:24:03.200,0:24:08.400

you know I don't know how many of those

 

0:24:06.400,0:24:10.440

licensed Hunters are actually Predator

 

0:24:08.400,0:24:14.520

Hunters but I think it's safe to say

 

0:24:10.440,0:24:16.799

that it's a lot yeah it's a lot of them

 

0:24:14.520,0:24:20.279

well you know and what comes with that

 

0:24:16.799,0:24:21.600

of course comes hunting pressure right

 

0:24:20.279,0:24:25.080

there's more and more people getting

 

0:24:21.600,0:24:29.240

into it every year as well U how does a

 

0:24:25.080,0:24:30.919

fox and coyote collar in Penn like

 

0:24:29.240,0:24:34.120

yourself

 

0:24:30.919,0:24:36.679

overcome the extra pressure from other

 

0:24:34.120,0:24:40.240

Hunters cuz it seems like you're always

 

0:24:36.679,0:24:42.200

very solid you know very uh consistent

 

0:24:40.240,0:24:44.320

uh if you're calling you're usually

 

0:24:42.200,0:24:47.520

you're usually putting fur in a

 

0:24:44.320,0:24:50.760

truck yeah and I I mean I also got to

 

0:24:47.520,0:24:53.440

give credit to yeah I mean I hunt I'm

 

0:24:50.760,0:24:55.919

blessed to hunting on in an area with a

 

0:24:53.440,0:24:59.880

good population of the target animal

 

0:24:55.919,0:25:02.480

right and but yeah I'll try to um if I'm

 

0:24:59.880,0:25:05.279

doing a stand where I know there's going

 

0:25:02.480,0:25:08.520

to be other Hunters on and I you go back

 

0:25:05.279,0:25:10.440

10 years ago most of the Farms I hunted

 

0:25:08.520,0:25:13.760

I probably was the only guy hunting

 

0:25:10.440,0:25:17.240

right I I I know how that goes 15 years

 

0:25:13.760,0:25:19.240

ago and in the last 10 five well yeah

 

0:25:17.240,0:25:21.720

the last five 10 years I've

 

0:25:19.240,0:25:24.159

noticed yeah there's just I mean I don't

 

0:25:21.720,0:25:26.159

have Farms to myself anymore and it

 

0:25:24.159,0:25:28.960

would be nice but I'm not the owner so I

 

0:25:26.159,0:25:33.640

can't say right it would be tempting

 

0:25:28.960,0:25:35.679

sometimes to say hey I would be yeah I

 

0:25:33.640,0:25:37.520

if I got permission to keep other people

 

0:25:35.679,0:25:40.080

off but it's not my ground they can do

 

0:25:37.520,0:25:42.919

with what what they want right and fox I

 

0:25:40.080,0:25:46.320

don't think it don't matter near as much

 

0:25:42.919,0:25:49.840

as say KY kyo's just smarting up so much

 

0:25:46.320,0:25:51.960

quicker and but I I know for myself like

 

0:25:49.840,0:25:54.880

um if I'm if I'm hunting a farm where I

 

0:25:51.960,0:25:56.200

know there's other Hunters I'm going to

 

0:25:54.880,0:25:57.600

try to hunt it from a little bit

 

0:25:56.200,0:26:00.799

different angle than what I would think

 

0:25:57.600,0:26:02.720

would be the easy place to walk to right

 

0:26:00.799,0:26:04.440

um and just kind of use a little bit

 

0:26:02.720,0:26:07.320

different sounds than what I know would

 

0:26:04.440,0:26:09.360

would be on a typical Fox Pro right

 

0:26:07.320,0:26:11.120

right just I mean they would have the

 

0:26:09.360,0:26:13.399

same sounds on the fox Pro but it

 

0:26:11.120,0:26:15.640

wouldn't be I wouldn't be running like

 

0:26:13.399,0:26:17.399

baby Cottontail too is probably one of

 

0:26:15.640,0:26:19.159

my favorite sounds but there's certain

 

0:26:17.399,0:26:22.120

Farms I won't use it because I've heard

 

0:26:19.159,0:26:24.720

it pling there before right right by

 

0:26:22.120,0:26:27.360

somebody else

 

0:26:24.720,0:26:29.200

yeah I'm over in a couple Fields over

 

0:26:27.360,0:26:31.480

and I'm thinking I'm like dude I know

 

0:26:29.200,0:26:33.399

that sound uhuh so do you like baby

 

0:26:31.480,0:26:36.880

Cotton Tail too more than you like

 

0:26:33.399,0:26:39.480

original baby Cotton Tail I I guess I

 

0:26:36.880,0:26:41.720

never played a whole lot of the original

 

0:26:39.480,0:26:44.080

like just baby Cottontail 2 is is one

 

0:26:41.720,0:26:46.600

that I use quite a bit really okay and

 

0:26:44.080,0:26:48.559

early season I'll use that one as well I

 

0:26:46.600,0:26:50.760

mean like this time of year I'm still

 

0:26:48.559,0:26:52.039

running it but as we get later into

 

0:26:50.760,0:26:55.200

season

 

0:26:52.039,0:26:56.600

I'll oh certain Farms where I know I'm

 

0:26:55.200,0:26:58.520

the only guy in I'll still run that

 

0:26:56.600,0:27:01.039

sound but certain Farms I won't use that

 

0:26:58.520,0:27:04.600

sound anymore I'll just switch more to

 

0:27:01.039,0:27:06.760

little bit different bird sounds um

 

0:27:04.600,0:27:08.840

different rabbit sounds I mean the

 

0:27:06.760,0:27:11.159

average guy going out there he sees

 

0:27:08.840,0:27:13.039

Lightning Jack he's like well there's no

 

0:27:11.159,0:27:15.799

jack rabbits around it probably won't

 

0:27:13.039,0:27:17.720

work um sounds like that I'll use and

 

0:27:15.799,0:27:20.200

have had quite a bit of success on some

 

0:27:17.720,0:27:22.919

of them sounds right

 

0:27:20.200,0:27:25.120

right I tell you what that you maybe you

 

0:27:22.919,0:27:26.880

got sitting there thinking in my head

 

0:27:25.120,0:27:29.760

that was in Wyoming just a few weeks ago

 

0:27:26.880,0:27:32.559

with my brother and we was public ground

 

0:27:29.760,0:27:33.799

and uh you know it's tough out there it

 

0:27:32.559,0:27:34.960

could be really tough on some that

 

0:27:33.799,0:27:37.399

public ground when you get in these

 

0:27:34.960,0:27:39.480

spots and me look man look at this stand

 

0:27:37.399,0:27:40.440

right here this looks awesome he said

 

0:27:39.480,0:27:42.320

right you know look right over here

 

0:27:40.440,0:27:44.000

there's that little no you can see

 

0:27:42.320,0:27:46.320

everything and I'm sitting there

 

0:27:44.000,0:27:47.640

thinking like yeah every Coy Hunter

 

0:27:46.320,0:27:50.320

that's ever come through here is

 

0:27:47.640,0:27:52.120

thinking thinking the same same dag on

 

0:27:50.320,0:27:56.399

thing like how about we go over two more

 

0:27:52.120,0:27:58.360

ridges y y and I sometimes I think that

 

0:27:56.399,0:28:00.399

pays off you know like we might do and

 

0:27:58.360,0:28:01.480

you call a coyote now I don't know we

 

0:28:00.399,0:28:02.960

might have set up where we was

 

0:28:01.480,0:28:04.919

originally talking about and called the

 

0:28:02.960,0:28:07.000

same coyote up there maybe called up

 

0:28:04.919,0:28:10.039

more coyotes but that goes through my

 

0:28:07.000,0:28:12.320

mind I've said that a many times like

 

0:28:10.039,0:28:13.840

heck anybody will make this stand right

 

0:28:12.320,0:28:17.640

here let's not do this one let's go over

 

0:28:13.840,0:28:19.799

there and make it yep I try to I try to

 

0:28:17.640,0:28:23.000

be conscious of that and make the mighty

 

0:28:19.799,0:28:25.720

stands yeah set up according as

 

0:28:23.000,0:28:28.519

sometimes or if you got to I I don't

 

0:28:25.720,0:28:31.039

like to walk in too far and kind of lazy

 

0:28:28.519,0:28:33.240

that way but uh if I got to walk a

 

0:28:31.039,0:28:36.799

little bit further or come in from a

 

0:28:33.240,0:28:38.679

little bit different area or yeah and

 

0:28:36.799,0:28:41.159

I'll I'll try to do that as well if I've

 

0:28:38.679,0:28:43.320

been on a stand and I missed or called

 

0:28:41.159,0:28:46.000

one in and got winded the next time I go

 

0:28:43.320,0:28:50.080

there I'll try to try not to set up on

 

0:28:46.000,0:28:51.600

the same location right right yeah what

 

0:28:50.080,0:28:54.880

uh you was talking about you don't think

 

0:28:51.600,0:28:58.279

Fox wise up near as quick as a kyote

 

0:28:54.880,0:29:00.080

does how much Co I mean can you mess up

 

0:28:58.279,0:29:01.519

Fox a time or two and still come in

 

0:29:00.080,0:29:02.960

there a third or fourth time and you

 

0:29:01.519,0:29:06.080

know second third or fourth time and get

 

0:29:02.960,0:29:08.840

them killed I mean how U I know there's

 

0:29:06.080,0:29:11.159

no way to really compare the two but but

 

0:29:08.840,0:29:14.120

from what I'm hearing from you you don't

 

0:29:11.159,0:29:16.559

think that the fox wise up near as quick

 

0:29:14.120,0:29:18.760

as a coyote might yeah I don't think

 

0:29:16.559,0:29:20.919

they wise up quite I mean a coyote's

 

0:29:18.760,0:29:24.000

learning curve it seems is so so much

 

0:29:20.919,0:29:26.679

shorter um they the fox will I mean I

 

0:29:24.000,0:29:31.200

used to have this one area that I

 

0:29:26.679,0:29:33.360

hunted quite a B and in the last five 10

 

0:29:31.200,0:29:36.840

years or I noticed in in the last five

 

0:29:33.360,0:29:38.760

years like you got later season I mean

 

0:29:36.840,0:29:40.640

the fox instead of making that Circle at

 

0:29:38.760,0:29:44.880

120 yards to get downwind they're

 

0:29:40.640,0:29:47.279

circling me at 200 250 yards so in a

 

0:29:44.880,0:29:49.919

case like that some of them cases then

 

0:29:47.279,0:29:52.159

normally I have the call out in front

 

0:29:49.919,0:29:55.080

like then I then I'll place call

 

0:29:52.159,0:29:58.559

different like where the calls I'm like

 

0:29:55.080,0:30:00.279

100 yeah 150 yards down window the call

 

0:29:58.559,0:30:02.399

when he circles it he's going to be

 

0:30:00.279,0:30:03.559

coming he's going to be circling more

 

0:30:02.399,0:30:06.799

into

 

0:30:03.559,0:30:09.279

range right so if I start seeing that

 

0:30:06.799,0:30:11.880

happening I'll in that area I'll start

 

0:30:09.279,0:30:14.600

planning for that well let me ask you

 

0:30:11.880,0:30:15.960

about your call placement um you know

 

0:30:14.600,0:30:18.240

especially you know you say you like to

 

0:30:15.960,0:30:20.159

run lights for a fox when when you are

 

0:30:18.240,0:30:22.200

running lights for a fox what does your

 

0:30:20.159,0:30:24.480

call placement look like I mean how far

 

0:30:22.200,0:30:26.679

are you setting it out and are you

 

0:30:24.480,0:30:30.880

working angles with the wind and that

 

0:30:26.679,0:30:34.720

type of stuff yeah always playing to win

 

0:30:30.880,0:30:38.559

um and it's usually it's usually within

 

0:30:34.720,0:30:41.279

50 yards of me the caller okay 30 to 50

 

0:30:38.559,0:30:43.960

yards on average I would say I mean

 

0:30:41.279,0:30:46.200

there's times where depending how the

 

0:30:43.960,0:30:50.159

wind is I'll place it a little bit

 

0:30:46.200,0:30:52.399

further okay but yeah I I know years ago

 

0:30:50.159,0:30:53.799

I I remember reading stuff and hearing

 

0:30:52.399,0:30:55.120

people talk about you know if they're

 

0:30:53.799,0:30:57.519

hunting with lights they like to have

 

0:30:55.120,0:30:59.799

the call sitting really close to them

 

0:30:57.519,0:31:01.639

like I'm at your feet they almost act

 

0:30:59.799,0:31:04.519

like you could pick yeah pick their eyes

 

0:31:01.639,0:31:06.720

up better so is there anything to that

 

0:31:04.519,0:31:08.559

um and I think back in the day when the

 

0:31:06.720,0:31:11.279

lights weren't very bright there could

 

0:31:08.559,0:31:12.880

be something to that okay um but with

 

0:31:11.279,0:31:13.720

the brighter lights we have nowadays

 

0:31:12.880,0:31:17.440

I've

 

0:31:13.720,0:31:19.039

never yeah they're they never I mean

 

0:31:17.440,0:31:20.639

yeah they come in kind of honed in on

 

0:31:19.039,0:31:23.559

the sound but they're still looking

 

0:31:20.639,0:31:26.480

around yeah and once I if I get a a

 

0:31:23.559,0:31:29.159

flash of them then um yeah so the

 

0:31:26.480,0:31:32.639

improve the Improvement of Lights has

 

0:31:29.159,0:31:35.240

really allowed you to set the your Fox

 

0:31:32.639,0:31:38.039

Pro out further and still pick up eyes

 

0:31:35.240,0:31:39.919

or pick up the fox and stuff like that

 

0:31:38.039,0:31:41.919

yeah that's where I would say yeah

 

0:31:39.919,0:31:44.000

because I I I mean there's times where

 

0:31:41.919,0:31:46.279

I'll have the call further than that and

 

0:31:44.000,0:31:48.440

I've never had I mean I guess I can't

 

0:31:46.279,0:31:49.799

say I never had one come in and didn't

 

0:31:48.440,0:31:51.480

see it because I guess I wouldn't know

 

0:31:49.799,0:31:55.360

that but

 

0:31:51.480,0:31:57.200

right I can't ever think where I yeah

 

0:31:55.360,0:31:58.880

had one get in real close and say man I

 

0:31:57.200,0:32:01.399

didn't see it didn't see that one

 

0:31:58.880,0:32:03.720

because he wasn't looking at me I

 

0:32:01.399,0:32:05.360

didn't I got you that's good stuff let

 

0:32:03.720,0:32:07.639

me ask you let's start let's talk about

 

0:32:05.360,0:32:10.440

Colin a little bit here uh like farest

 

0:32:07.639,0:32:11.519

sound stuff walk walk us through you

 

0:32:10.440,0:32:12.919

know you don't have to tell us

 

0:32:11.519,0:32:14.960

everything if you don't want to but you

 

0:32:12.919,0:32:17.240

know these guys would appreciate it

 

0:32:14.960,0:32:19.399

won't you walk us through your typical

 

0:32:17.240,0:32:21.799

sound sequence for a fox like if you're

 

0:32:19.399,0:32:23.279

going to go fox hunting tonight tell us

 

0:32:21.799,0:32:27.279

what you

 

0:32:23.279,0:32:29.760

doing well I mean when I first got into

 

0:32:27.279,0:32:32.559

using I'm going to if I sh a little bit

 

0:32:29.760,0:32:36.960

of a backstory sure yeah I love

 

0:32:32.559,0:32:40.240

stories um it wasn't till probably about

 

0:32:36.960,0:32:41.519

10 15 years ago to IR ran electronic I

 

0:32:40.240,0:32:44.399

was always

 

0:32:41.519,0:32:47.600

running I mean I ran mouth cause for

 

0:32:44.399,0:32:49.960

years and um it wasn't until I read an

 

0:32:47.600,0:32:52.559

article by Andrew lean in the predor

 

0:32:49.960,0:32:55.279

extreme magazine about the Platinum gray

 

0:32:52.559,0:32:58.320

sound how how it works so well for Fox

 

0:32:55.279,0:33:00.480

yep when I purchased a fox Pro and

 

0:32:58.320,0:33:02.960

played around with that till I

 

0:33:00.480,0:33:04.760

started yeah incorporating the Platinum

 

0:33:02.960,0:33:07.240

gray and once I started seeing some of

 

0:33:04.760,0:33:08.159

the results I started using the fox Pro

 

0:33:07.240,0:33:12.600

more and

 

0:33:08.159,0:33:16.399

more and um yeah so

 

0:33:12.600,0:33:18.519

it's yeah I haven't yeah it's been about

 

0:33:16.399,0:33:20.720

15 years since I've run the electronic

 

0:33:18.519,0:33:22.919

but yeah it's it was always mouth calls

 

0:33:20.720,0:33:24.919

prior and I at first then I started

 

0:33:22.919,0:33:27.279

mixing mouth calls and electronic and

 

0:33:24.919,0:33:30.360

now today I I still throw in some mouth

 

0:33:27.279,0:33:32.760

calls mhm um for on them stands where I

 

0:33:30.360,0:33:35.760

know there's a bunch of other

 

0:33:32.760,0:33:37.799

callers but yeah I I know for myself the

 

0:33:35.760,0:33:40.240

last it's and it seems to go through

 

0:33:37.799,0:33:42.960

spells like last year last year I

 

0:33:40.240,0:33:45.919

couldn't find any like I killed Fox on

 

0:33:42.960,0:33:48.080

rabbit sounds but I usually you get a

 

0:33:45.919,0:33:50.320

sound that is very consistent throughout

 

0:33:48.080,0:33:52.240

the whole year and I struggled to find a

 

0:33:50.320,0:33:55.320

rabbit sound that was very consistent

 

0:33:52.240,0:33:59.080

and I I used primarily all bird sounds

 

0:33:55.320,0:34:01.960

last year okay I mean I I always throw

 

0:33:59.080,0:34:05.559

I'll always throw scenar uh at least one

 

0:34:01.960,0:34:08.839

sequence of rabbit but uh um it was the

 

0:34:05.559,0:34:11.560

last last year and then this year so far

 

0:34:08.839,0:34:14.520

bird sounds have been really well

 

0:34:11.560,0:34:18.240

again and uh yeah I mean I'll usually

 

0:34:14.520,0:34:19.839

start out set the call out um yeah and

 

0:34:18.240,0:34:22.440

as far as with lights I mean I don't

 

0:34:19.839,0:34:24.520

know if guys are I get out of the truck

 

0:34:22.440,0:34:26.240

the lights the lights stay on till I get

 

0:34:24.520,0:34:28.919

back in the truck I don't ever turn

 

0:34:26.240,0:34:30.280

lights off gotcha get get out get your

 

0:34:28.919,0:34:32.240

call out and I'll

 

0:34:30.280,0:34:33.760

usually sometimes I'll start out with

 

0:34:32.240,0:34:35.720

like Vol squeaks or something a little

 

0:34:33.760,0:34:39.520

bit quiet and then transition

 

0:34:35.720,0:34:42.119

into um yeah bird sounds I mean Fox BR

 

0:34:39.520,0:34:45.320

has a number of good bird sounds like

 

0:34:42.119,0:34:46.839

the tit Mouse tantrum the Nutty nut

 

0:34:45.320,0:34:50.960

hatch

 

0:34:46.839,0:34:53.520

um and then uh they have the one of my

 

0:34:50.960,0:34:55.119

favorites is uh they have the brown

 

0:34:53.520,0:34:59.920

thrasher sound that's been a killer

 

0:34:55.119,0:35:02.040

sound for me yep and uh then with the

 

0:34:59.920,0:35:05.400

mfk they got some really good bird

 

0:35:02.040,0:35:07.200

sounds as well like goody Woody and um I

 

0:35:05.400,0:35:09.040

think the other one is Brook pecker that

 

0:35:07.200,0:35:11.640

one's a good bird

 

0:35:09.040,0:35:14.720

sound yeah playing two or three bird

 

0:35:11.640,0:35:17.680

sounds and then one or two rabbit sounds

 

0:35:14.720,0:35:20.680

and then I always play Platinum gray on

 

0:35:17.680,0:35:22.680

a stand usually kind of in the middle

 

0:35:20.680,0:35:27.000

and I'll Crank That volume up pretty

 

0:35:22.680,0:35:29.400

loud like on the the x24 I'm running

 

0:35:27.000,0:35:32.520

that sound close to 30 up and down

 

0:35:29.400,0:35:35.040

between 20 and 30 I got you sound pretty

 

0:35:32.520,0:35:36.760

loud getting that sound out and then

 

0:35:35.040,0:35:38.960

going back to Rabbit and bird sounds

 

0:35:36.760,0:35:41.599

following that up for the next few

 

0:35:38.960,0:35:43.680

minutes so how long how long a stand are

 

0:35:41.599,0:35:45.160

you generally making for Fox like if

 

0:35:43.680,0:35:46.920

you're just out pleasure hunting you

 

0:35:45.160,0:35:50.400

know not contest hunting but you're just

 

0:35:46.920,0:35:54.040

going out your regular nights of hunting

 

0:35:50.400,0:35:57.640

um 10 15 minutes MH and that's kind of I

 

0:35:54.040,0:35:59.079

go from like some nights some nights you

 

0:35:57.640,0:36:00.839

you go out and you'll hit like three

 

0:35:59.079,0:36:02.640

spots not see anything I'm like what the

 

0:36:00.839,0:36:04.359

world's going on so I'll stay on stand

 

0:36:02.640,0:36:06.040

for like 15 minutes to see if they're

 

0:36:04.359,0:36:08.160

responding a little bit later stret it a

 

0:36:06.040,0:36:10.839

little longer yeah yeah and if I start

 

0:36:08.160,0:36:12.280

having stuff respond a little bit later

 

0:36:10.839,0:36:15.359

then I'm going to try to stay there for

 

0:36:12.280,0:36:18.920

15 minutes but if I'm out on a night

 

0:36:15.359,0:36:20.480

where I mean by seven eight minutes into

 

0:36:18.920,0:36:24.280

to the stand you've called one or two

 

0:36:20.480,0:36:28.400

fox in um yeah if stuff is responding

 

0:36:24.280,0:36:30.079

pretty early some nights I mean Within

 

0:36:28.400,0:36:33.000

seconds are turning the call and you get

 

0:36:30.079,0:36:35.359

eyes coming right and if is responding

 

0:36:33.000,0:36:36.920

really earlier in the set then those

 

0:36:35.359,0:36:39.720

nights I'm running a little bit shorter

 

0:36:36.920,0:36:42.200

sets and looking to get more stands in I

 

0:36:39.720,0:36:44.359

got you I got you so like if you're

 

0:36:42.200,0:36:46.800

making your longer sets you know that 12

 

0:36:44.359,0:36:48.720

15 minute stand how many sounds are you

 

0:36:46.800,0:36:51.160

playing on that stand will you play five

 

0:36:48.720,0:36:52.160

or six different sounds on a on a 15

 

0:36:51.160,0:36:56.359

minute

 

0:36:52.160,0:36:59.359

set no more than that I'll I'll run okay

 

0:36:56.359,0:37:01.960

like I'll run a like a say say I start

 

0:36:59.359,0:37:04.200

out with a like a thrasher or nutty nut

 

0:37:01.960,0:37:06.400

hatch I'll play that for a minute give

 

0:37:04.200,0:37:08.040

it a 10 15 second pause and go right

 

0:37:06.400,0:37:10.920

into another bird sound and just keep

 

0:37:08.040,0:37:13.000

repeating that so even on a 10-minute

 

0:37:10.920,0:37:15.160

stand I'm probably playing eight close

 

0:37:13.000,0:37:18.680

to eight sounds I got you so if you're

 

0:37:15.160,0:37:21.079

not seeing eyes or or fox running in

 

0:37:18.680,0:37:22.720

pretty quick within a minute you're

 

0:37:21.079,0:37:23.960

you're switching to another sound to try

 

0:37:22.720,0:37:25.640

to get them to trigger you're just

 

0:37:23.960,0:37:29.319

assuming they're not triggering to that

 

0:37:25.640,0:37:31.920

sound yeah oh good stuff so it's great

 

0:37:29.319,0:37:33.760

stuff usually what what I'm doing I mean

 

0:37:31.920,0:37:35.920

there's some nights where it's probably

 

0:37:33.760,0:37:38.880

playing a minute and a half and St yeah

 

0:37:35.920,0:37:40.680

but usually 30 seconds to a minute and a

 

0:37:38.880,0:37:42.280

half and then I'm giving it a little bit

 

0:37:40.680,0:37:43.839

of a pause and I don't even know if

 

0:37:42.280,0:37:45.599

you'd even have to give it a pause just

 

0:37:43.839,0:37:47.520

go right into the next sound yeah so on

 

0:37:45.599,0:37:48.640

a 10 minute stand though you're

 

0:37:47.520,0:37:51.839

sometimes you're playing up to eight

 

0:37:48.640,0:37:53.720

sounds that's good that's hey yeah there

 

0:37:51.839,0:37:55.359

there's the Golden Nugget cuz I'm sure

 

0:37:53.720,0:37:56.680

there's not a I'm sure there's a lot

 

0:37:55.359,0:37:58.200

there's a lot of other people does it

 

0:37:56.680,0:37:59.119

type of stuff too but I bet that's not

 

0:37:58.200,0:38:02.880

the

 

0:37:59.119,0:38:05.680

majority yeah and then like beginning of

 

0:38:02.880,0:38:07.960

a night I mean I'll try you're going

 

0:38:05.680,0:38:10.160

through usually by the end of the night

 

0:38:07.960,0:38:13.119

you have a few select sounds that you

 

0:38:10.160,0:38:14.599

called coyotes or fox in on and then

 

0:38:13.119,0:38:16.319

them are you're kind of your go-to

 

0:38:14.599,0:38:19.480

you're hitting them maybe letting them

 

0:38:16.319,0:38:22.240

play a little bit longer than your other

 

0:38:19.480,0:38:23.839

sounds um say if a bird sounds working

 

0:38:22.240,0:38:25.800

real well that night that sound I'll

 

0:38:23.839,0:38:28.359

probably give it a good minute and a

 

0:38:25.800,0:38:31.760

half of that sound before I switch

 

0:38:28.359,0:38:33.960

so what about the uh going back to the

 

0:38:31.760,0:38:35.599

the vocal sound uh you said you like to

 

0:38:33.960,0:38:37.960

play Platinum gray so you're usually

 

0:38:35.599,0:38:40.960

throwing it in like in the middle of

 

0:38:37.960,0:38:43.200

your of your set middle of your St yeah

 

0:38:40.960,0:38:46.040

usually usually try to have that playing

 

0:38:43.200,0:38:48.359

by yeah five to the seven minute Mark

 

0:38:46.040,0:38:50.200

somewhere in there I like that and then

 

0:38:48.359,0:38:52.359

I I like to play that one I like to get

 

0:38:50.200,0:38:55.960

the sound out there on that on those

 

0:38:52.359,0:38:57.760

sounds um is there any other uh Fox

 

0:38:55.960,0:38:59.240

vocal sounds that you'll play besides

 

0:38:57.760,0:39:01.280

for platinum gray or is that kind of

 

0:38:59.240,0:39:03.280

just your main stay there just RIS prey

 

0:39:01.280,0:39:05.160

distress and just mixing in Platinum

 

0:39:03.280,0:39:08.800

gray in the middle of the

 

0:39:05.160,0:39:11.960

set um Platinum gray I mean your bait

 

0:39:08.800,0:39:16.599

your red fox in distress I've called fox

 

0:39:11.960,0:39:18.440

in on that um and then and that as it

 

0:39:16.599,0:39:21.160

gets later into the season when you get

 

0:39:18.440,0:39:23.480

into uh like the towards the end of

 

0:39:21.160,0:39:25.839

December your Fox will get into Mating

 

0:39:23.480,0:39:27.960

Season then I'll incorporate like the

 

0:39:25.839,0:39:30.880

fox parks and like a little bit more of

 

0:39:27.960,0:39:32.319

the fox vocals into a stand yeah we had

 

0:39:30.880,0:39:34.880

we had a did a great you mentioned

 

0:39:32.319,0:39:36.400

Andrew lean we did a excellent podcast

 

0:39:34.880,0:39:38.359

with Andrew I don't know if his last

 

0:39:36.400,0:39:40.480

year year before but it was about Fox

 

0:39:38.359,0:39:42.280

vocals and he was talking about calling

 

0:39:40.480,0:39:44.880

them you know during the rut and calling

 

0:39:42.280,0:39:46.680

them or calling fox in with the fox

 

0:39:44.880,0:39:48.200

vocals it's very interesting if you guys

 

0:39:46.680,0:39:51.000

haven't listened to it and you're in the

 

0:39:48.200,0:39:52.250

fox col need to check that out yeah that

 

0:39:51.000,0:39:55.040

was a good

 

0:39:52.250,0:39:58.880

[Music]

 

0:39:55.040,0:40:01.720

one but yeah so on stands playing yeah

 

0:39:58.880,0:40:04.520

it usually between I'm going to say

 

0:40:01.720,0:40:06.640

between seven and 10 sounds on average I

 

0:40:04.520,0:40:10.400

would say oh that's very interesting

 

0:40:06.640,0:40:13.000

that's good stuff right there um do you

 

0:40:10.400,0:40:15.480

have what about uh what about for KY

 

0:40:13.000,0:40:17.079

stands do you work your coyote stands

 

0:40:15.480,0:40:18.400

give us an example of your coyote stand

 

0:40:17.079,0:40:20.880

I mean I want to see how different you

 

0:40:18.400,0:40:23.920

run a coyote stand versus a fox

 

0:40:20.880,0:40:26.920

stand well yeah on coyote stands I'm not

 

0:40:23.920,0:40:28.920

using hardly any I use usually start out

 

0:40:26.920,0:40:31.680

a camp a coyote stand with a little bit

 

0:40:28.920,0:40:33.760

of distress in case something's close

 

0:40:31.680,0:40:38.000

and then yeah then I'm going

 

0:40:33.760,0:40:41.160

into going into my coyote vocals um

 

0:40:38.000,0:40:44.480

usually a series of hows answer that how

 

0:40:41.160,0:40:46.880

and then yeah going into my pup distress

 

0:40:44.480,0:40:49.839

sounds and fight sounds

 

0:40:46.880,0:40:52.680

and and then yeah occasionally mixing

 

0:40:49.839,0:40:54.760

like a serenade in therea yeah I for

 

0:40:52.680,0:40:56.440

years I ran a serenade and then I kind

 

0:40:54.760,0:40:59.800

of got away from it but this year I've

 

0:40:56.440,0:41:02.720

used them a little bit more right right

 

0:40:59.800,0:41:05.200

so making how long is stand you usually

 

0:41:02.720,0:41:09.440

making when you when you're targeting

 

0:41:05.200,0:41:12.200

cows um I try to stay on stand for like

 

0:41:09.440,0:41:14.240

a half an hour okay so you're stretching

 

0:41:12.200,0:41:16.680

it out like three times as long as you

 

0:41:14.240,0:41:19.920

would for Fox yeah which is pretty hard

 

0:41:16.680,0:41:21.760

for me to do when I'm used to making you

 

0:41:19.920,0:41:25.680

start to get

 

0:41:21.760,0:41:28.280

bored so what about so so after so in

 

0:41:25.680,0:41:30.680

for a fox tan and 10 minute stand You'll

 

0:41:28.280,0:41:32.760

Play up to eight sounds how many sounds

 

0:41:30.680,0:41:36.079

you playing in 30 minutes for those

 

0:41:32.760,0:41:40.079

coyotes um probably probably about the

 

0:41:36.079,0:41:43.520

same amount I mean about eight yeah I

 

0:41:40.079,0:41:46.680

don't with coyote stands I I tend to

 

0:41:43.520,0:41:48.520

once I done with my house um then I like

 

0:41:46.680,0:41:51.520

to give it a few minutes in between

 

0:41:48.520,0:41:52.640

sounds and yeah yeah give it a little

 

0:41:51.520,0:41:54.800

bit of give them a little bit of the

 

0:41:52.640,0:41:56.960

silent treatment and I don't know I've

 

0:41:54.800,0:41:59.640

had KES Groll in at that time pretty

 

0:41:56.960,0:42:02.960

often of for myself interesting

 

0:41:59.640,0:42:05.640

interesting good

 

0:42:02.960,0:42:07.680

how let's get let's get I don't want hey

 

0:42:05.640,0:42:09.200

people been asking about Cliff for Fox

 

0:42:07.680,0:42:11.200

I'm GNA try to keep his you know I'm

 

0:42:09.200,0:42:13.640

want I'm want I'm wanting to Swerve off

 

0:42:11.200,0:42:16.040

them coow cuz I'm a Coy guy you know I'm

 

0:42:13.640,0:42:19.640

trying to steer myself back to the fox

 

0:42:16.040,0:42:22.559

um I notice that most of most of your

 

0:42:19.640,0:42:25.280

fox in your pictures are Reds but I see

 

0:42:22.559,0:42:27.520

a gray every once in a while uh I mean

 

0:42:25.280,0:42:31.720

I'm assuming it must just be predominant

 

0:42:27.520,0:42:36.119

red fox in your area but a mix mix of a

 

0:42:31.720,0:42:38.040

gray every once in a while yeah on on uh

 

0:42:36.119,0:42:41.359

like in ler County where I live I've

 

0:42:38.040,0:42:42.400

only ever shot one gray fox um I go

 

0:42:41.359,0:42:45.119

north

 

0:42:42.400,0:42:46.839

into yeah it seems if I'm going to get

 

0:42:45.119,0:42:49.200

into grze consistently I have to go

 

0:42:46.839,0:42:51.319

about an hour hour and a half north yeah

 

0:42:49.200,0:42:53.160

okay okay and you're running the you're

 

0:42:51.319,0:42:54.839

running your stand the same way for the

 

0:42:53.160,0:42:56.640

Grays as you are for the Reds I'm

 

0:42:54.839,0:42:58.520

assuming yeah probably mixing a little

 

0:42:56.640,0:43:01.839

bit more the gray fox sounds in like

 

0:42:58.520,0:43:04.640

screaming gray and yeah yeah a few more

 

0:43:01.839,0:43:06.319

gray gray fox sounds in that because

 

0:43:04.640,0:43:08.640

they they they respond pretty

 

0:43:06.319,0:43:10.079

aggressively towards towards the fox

 

0:43:08.640,0:43:12.000

sounds don't they especially like

 

0:43:10.079,0:43:13.920

Platinum gray which I mean I I say

 

0:43:12.000,0:43:17.119

especially Platinum gray I've just heard

 

0:43:13.920,0:43:19.200

that sound hammered into my mind so much

 

0:43:17.119,0:43:21.559

but but I've heard people talk about the

 

0:43:19.200,0:43:26.240

gray fox vocals and how gray fox come

 

0:43:21.559,0:43:29.800

charging into them yeah and they do I um

 

0:43:26.240,0:43:31.760

I forgot that are targeting Grays or in

 

0:43:29.800,0:43:34.119

areas with Grays I know from my

 

0:43:31.760,0:43:36.119

experience I if I'm targeting Grays I

 

0:43:34.119,0:43:37.599

won't quite hunt them like I do red fox

 

0:43:36.119,0:43:40.760

where I'm just out in the Wide Open

 

0:43:37.599,0:43:42.240

Fields I I seem to have like I'll get

 

0:43:40.760,0:43:44.400

the Grays to come down to the edge of

 

0:43:42.240,0:43:47.079

the woods but they won't just come they

 

0:43:44.400,0:43:48.680

won't come running out on average they

 

0:43:47.079,0:43:50.920

won't just come running right out across

 

0:43:48.680,0:43:52.800

the Open Fields like a red well right

 

0:43:50.920,0:43:55.839

right I usually try to get in a little

 

0:43:52.800,0:43:58.119

bit tighter for gray in the yeah not

 

0:43:55.839,0:43:59.359

right in the cover but with then if they

 

0:43:58.119,0:44:02.119

come to the edge they're going to

 

0:43:59.359,0:44:04.240

they're in they're in range okay so your

 

0:44:02.119,0:44:05.800

setup's a little bit different if you

 

0:44:04.240,0:44:08.040

know you're you're trying to Target

 

0:44:05.800,0:44:12.720

Grays there a little bit I noticed one

 

0:44:08.040,0:44:14.880

thing um we we find gray fox here a

 

0:44:12.720,0:44:18.079

little bit um one thing I've really

 

0:44:14.880,0:44:21.319

noticed if if we have graay Fox it's in

 

0:44:18.079,0:44:23.839

the areas where I find Bobcats it's like

 

0:44:21.319,0:44:25.480

the thickest the thickest nastiest stuff

 

0:44:23.839,0:44:28.920

it's a little bit rougher terrain that's

 

0:44:25.480,0:44:31.680

usually where I find are Grays usually

 

0:44:28.920,0:44:33.640

if it's a if it's a good area for Bobcat

 

0:44:31.680,0:44:36.960

it seems like it's a good area for for

 

0:44:33.640,0:44:40.720

gray fox yeah and yeah that's I would

 

0:44:36.960,0:44:43.200

agree with that I mean Reds are Reds are

 

0:44:40.720,0:44:44.680

primarily yeah open Farm country and

 

0:44:43.200,0:44:46.240

grades are a little bit more in like

 

0:44:44.680,0:44:50.640

Mountain ground or thick thick

 

0:44:46.240,0:44:52.640

underbrush stuff right right what um

 

0:44:50.640,0:44:53.520

what caliber are you running for on your

 

0:44:52.640,0:44:55.839

Fox

 

0:44:53.520,0:44:58.520

stands yeah this this one will probably

 

0:44:55.839,0:45:00.359

get a lot of likes hey I know what it is

 

0:44:58.520,0:45:04.440

I've heard you talk about

 

0:45:00.359,0:45:06.480

it well for for years the last the last

 

0:45:04.440,0:45:09.800

number of years I haven't put up my own

 

0:45:06.480,0:45:12.680

fur but for just because it wasn't worth

 

0:45:09.800,0:45:15.680

doing it but for for the first 20 years

 

0:45:12.680,0:45:18.240

of fox hunting or the yeah I I would

 

0:45:15.680,0:45:21.240

kill Fox and I would put the Pelt up and

 

0:45:18.240,0:45:23.440

sell them so I was always looking for

 

0:45:21.240,0:45:26.520

that caliber that's not going to tear

 

0:45:23.440,0:45:29.480

holes cuz any hole that got tore that

 

0:45:26.520,0:45:31.599

was a hole that Cliff had to sew up yep

 

0:45:29.480,0:45:33.000

so like I don't know how long it's even

 

0:45:31.599,0:45:37.160

been out but when they came out with

 

0:45:33.000,0:45:40.760

that 17 WSM that Winchester Super Mag

 

0:45:37.160,0:45:42.640

yep um that's a gun I rim fire man don't

 

0:45:40.760,0:45:44.200

hey don't be shy just say it I'm

 

0:45:42.640,0:45:48.520

shooting a rim

 

0:45:44.200,0:45:52.680

fire 17 WSM yeah it's it's the Rimfire

 

0:45:48.520,0:45:54.200

and uh and some of it is cu I hunt um

 

0:45:52.680,0:45:57.400

there's a few areas that are Hunter

 

0:45:54.200,0:46:00.240

special Rags it's it's a shotgun or rim

 

0:45:57.400,0:46:02.119

I got you I got you I got you so I just

 

0:46:00.240,0:46:04.200

I always struggle going back and forth

 

0:46:02.119,0:46:05.880

from Guns different guns all the time

 

0:46:04.200,0:46:08.680

and I was like I'm just gonna get this

 

0:46:05.880,0:46:12.280

one I love and I'll run it everywhere

 

0:46:08.680,0:46:14.920

and that gun that's the gun I run 17 WSM

 

0:46:12.280,0:46:17.520

is what I [ __ ] some with a single shot

 

0:46:14.920,0:46:21.440

on top of

 

0:46:17.520,0:46:24.079

it oh my gosh a single shot rire now

 

0:46:21.440,0:46:27.520

that's a man right there I'm running a

 

0:46:24.079,0:46:29.359

Thompson Center frame with a yeah an MGM

 

0:46:27.520,0:46:32.240

Barrel but yeah it's a it's a single

 

0:46:29.359,0:46:34.000

shot so uh what caliber you running for

 

0:46:32.240,0:46:37.559

you running for your coyot you going to

 

0:46:34.000,0:46:40.680

take it on your coyot stands no if I'm

 

0:46:37.559,0:46:45.480

if we're targeting coyotes um I'm taking

 

0:46:40.680,0:46:47.920

the the 22250 my man hey have you ever T

 

0:46:45.480,0:46:50.640

have you ever taken any coyotes with

 

0:46:47.920,0:46:53.960

with your 17 yeah I've killed probably

 

0:46:50.640,0:46:56.960

about 15 20 of them with that gun really

 

0:46:53.960,0:47:01.319

um most of the time I'm going to take

 

0:46:56.960,0:47:03.880

come right between the eyes or if they I

 

0:47:01.319,0:47:06.800

had one I had my cousins out to one

 

0:47:03.880,0:47:09.040

night and and hit him and his boy and

 

0:47:06.800,0:47:11.000

his had a pair of Kes coming across the

 

0:47:09.040,0:47:12.440

field I was like they're coming in

 

0:47:11.000,0:47:16.559

perfect I'm going to let him get into

 

0:47:12.440,0:47:18.880

890 yards so the kid can see them and he

 

0:47:16.559,0:47:21.599

decides it was a good time to zipper up

 

0:47:18.880,0:47:24.839

his coat when they're like 90 yard 8090

 

0:47:21.599,0:47:27.119

yards and that thing turned on a dime

 

0:47:24.839,0:47:29.359

and ran out to about 120 and I lip

 

0:47:27.119,0:47:31.960

squeaked and he he spun around and I

 

0:47:29.359,0:47:33.839

just took him right behind the shoulder

 

0:47:31.960,0:47:36.960

yep and he didn't he didn't move off the

 

0:47:33.839,0:47:41.160

spot oh it dropped him with a 17 yeah

 

0:47:36.960,0:47:42.920

nice it's uh that gun yeah I obviously I

 

0:47:41.160,0:47:45.800

wouldn't take

 

0:47:42.920,0:47:49.079

that yeah to hunt coyotes as a primary

 

0:47:45.800,0:47:50.960

gun right but if you're on a fox stand

 

0:47:49.079,0:47:53.520

and a coyote runs up there you know you

 

0:47:50.960,0:47:55.800

can you know you can you can down with

 

0:47:53.520,0:47:58.160

your 17 I'm going to put her hurting on

 

0:47:55.800,0:48:00.040

him

 

0:47:58.160,0:48:03.800

but if you're targeting coyot you're

 

0:48:00.040,0:48:05.280

taking a 250 yep yep you thought you was

 

0:48:03.800,0:48:07.760

going to get a lot of flack for me when

 

0:48:05.280,0:48:10.400

you was gonna say Rimfire didn't you I

 

0:48:07.760,0:48:13.359

heard I heard the

 

0:48:10.400,0:48:15.400

podcast hey they have got a time and

 

0:48:13.359,0:48:19.520

they've got a place they are definitely

 

0:48:15.400,0:48:21.559

lethal and youve proven it the Super Mag

 

0:48:19.520,0:48:24.960

the Super Mag is quite a bit more than

 

0:48:21.559,0:48:27.240

the HMR yeah yeah yeah different animal

 

0:48:24.960,0:48:30.640

there different Beast

 

0:48:27.240,0:48:32.760

yeah and it now I I'm limiting myself on

 

0:48:30.640,0:48:36.240

Range a little bit with that gun versus

 

0:48:32.760,0:48:40.359

if I ran a a bigger caliber fox hunting

 

0:48:36.240,0:48:42.839

yeah um and it it has cost me some like

 

0:48:40.359,0:48:44.680

and like if I like shot placement is

 

0:48:42.839,0:48:46.520

very crit with that Critical with that

 

0:48:44.680,0:48:49.160

little caliber if I don't if I don't hit

 

0:48:46.520,0:48:50.559

them where I need to yeah they're gonna

 

0:48:49.160,0:48:51.720

they're going to make it to a corn field

 

0:48:50.559,0:48:54.920

or the woods you're going to get some

 

0:48:51.720,0:48:56.480

Runners right so you got to put them

 

0:48:54.920,0:48:58.680

yeah shot placement is critical with

 

0:48:56.480,0:49:02.000

that that 17

 

0:48:58.680,0:49:03.440

WSM have you ever had uh you ever shot

 

0:49:02.000,0:49:07.440

any coyotes with it and they get away

 

0:49:03.440,0:49:09.640

from you coyotes I haven't no really

 

0:49:07.440,0:49:11.640

I've always um so you've downed everyone

 

0:49:09.640,0:49:13.319

you shot with your but you've had a

 

0:49:11.640,0:49:15.280

handful of fox get away and you're going

 

0:49:13.319,0:49:16.880

it don't matter what you shoot you know

 

0:49:15.280,0:49:18.839

you're going to have some get away from

 

0:49:16.880,0:49:20.720

you with anything if you shoot enough of

 

0:49:18.839,0:49:23.760

them

 

0:49:20.720,0:49:25.280

yeah the the main the main thing I is

 

0:49:23.760,0:49:27.240

like with the Super Mag is if like

 

0:49:25.280,0:49:29.839

there's a standing cornfield one pops

 

0:49:27.240,0:49:31.839

out one pops out of the cornfield and

 

0:49:29.839,0:49:35.599

you hit him and if he makes it 10 rows

 

0:49:31.839,0:49:37.400

in it's going to be little I mean yeah

 

0:49:35.599,0:49:38.760

if he makes a 101 15 rows into the

 

0:49:37.400,0:49:42.000

cornfield it's going to be a little hard

 

0:49:38.760,0:49:45.160

to find him right right whether if that

 

0:49:42.000,0:49:48.000

was cut yeah You' be able to find

 

0:49:45.160,0:49:49.880

him you was talking about you putting up

 

0:49:48.000,0:49:50.760

some fur you still do you still put up

 

0:49:49.880,0:49:53.920

fur

 

0:49:50.760,0:49:56.440

today um this year I haven't yet I doubt

 

0:49:53.920,0:49:59.960

I will um if if the market ever comes

 

0:49:56.440,0:50:03.400

back a little bit I think um yeah I I

 

0:49:59.960,0:50:06.240

always enjoyed that especially come late

 

0:50:03.400,0:50:08.799

dece or December January when it's windy

 

0:50:06.240,0:50:11.480

and cold fire up the wood stove in the

 

0:50:08.799,0:50:13.920

garage and put up for felt yeah I just

 

0:50:11.480,0:50:15.440

love doing that but uh yeah get goes

 

0:50:13.920,0:50:16.520

right back to that tradition stuff up

 

0:50:15.440,0:50:20.160

here in

 

0:50:16.520,0:50:21.720

pday for for five bucks a p i the last

 

0:50:20.160,0:50:24.559

time I sold I wasn't going to continue

 

0:50:21.720,0:50:27.319

to do it that's a lot of work for five

 

0:50:24.559,0:50:29.599

bucks it always made for a picture at

 

0:50:27.319,0:50:32.599

the end of the year I always it does it

 

0:50:29.599,0:50:34.280

does it's yeah I mean I highly respect

 

0:50:32.599,0:50:37.440

it I think it's cool that you still do

 

0:50:34.280,0:50:40.880

it some but yeah the last the last two

 

0:50:37.440,0:50:43.240

years I haven't yeah but yeah you do you

 

0:50:40.880,0:50:47.480

ever try do you ever try any daytime

 

0:50:43.240,0:50:51.880

stands um for Fox I never really have um

 

0:50:47.480,0:50:55.400

I I should and I want to I just yeah I

 

0:50:51.880,0:50:58.280

don't and and I've done a few I've done

 

0:50:55.400,0:51:00.720

a few um same way with coyotes I've

 

0:50:58.280,0:51:03.559

called number of coyotes in in PA during

 

0:51:00.720,0:51:06.160

the day but I I I've never killed one

 

0:51:03.559,0:51:08.880

during the day in PA myself right right

 

0:51:06.160,0:51:10.680

um called quite a few in and I've called

 

0:51:08.880,0:51:13.760

there's been a number of times where

 

0:51:10.680,0:51:16.240

I've gone coyot calling and I called

 

0:51:13.760,0:51:17.359

plenty of foxing as well but I've never

 

0:51:16.240,0:51:19.799

I didn't shoot them because I was

 

0:51:17.359,0:51:24.559

targeting coyotes right right but it's

 

0:51:19.799,0:51:26.880

um yeah I I struggle sometimes as far as

 

0:51:24.559,0:51:29.200

um I pick my daytime sets like I with my

 

0:51:26.880,0:51:30.720

nighttime sets and I don't not always

 

0:51:29.200,0:51:33.440

successful I got to get a little bit

 

0:51:30.720,0:51:35.119

closer in the my daytime and nighttime

 

0:51:33.440,0:51:38.000

set should be a little bit different

 

0:51:35.119,0:51:41.640

than the than what I picked but

 

0:51:38.000,0:51:45.880

yeah I got I got a few questions for you

 

0:51:41.640,0:51:48.799

here some quick hit stuff would you uh

 

0:51:45.880,0:51:52.319

rather call Fox or

 

0:51:48.799,0:51:55.200

Couts um there was a point where I would

 

0:51:52.319,0:51:56.920

stick the fox um the fox don't I love

 

0:51:55.200,0:52:01.640

for my fox Hunning but they now that

 

0:51:56.920,0:52:04.160

we're getting more coyotes um I still

 

0:52:01.640,0:52:06.880

yeah the fox don't get me going quite

 

0:52:04.160,0:52:09.319

like they did at one time in my yeah in

 

0:52:06.880,0:52:11.240

the last 20 some years like it did but

 

0:52:09.319,0:52:14.119

uh if

 

0:52:11.240,0:52:15.680

I I mean if I had a pick throughout the

 

0:52:14.119,0:52:20.079

course of the Season it would be tough

 

0:52:15.680,0:52:23.200

to let just not go Fox on at all right

 

0:52:20.079,0:52:25.280

right right now this time of year um

 

0:52:23.200,0:52:27.000

yeah we'll pick and choose there'll be

 

0:52:25.280,0:52:29.880

the fox aren't going to just get off the

 

0:52:27.000,0:52:31.960

hook so we're still we're still going to

 

0:52:29.880,0:52:34.400

be after her so you'd say you'd rather

 

0:52:31.960,0:52:34.400

Co

 

0:52:34.440,0:52:39.079

call um that's a little bit hard

 

0:52:37.200,0:52:41.040

question I'm not exactly what to say on

 

0:52:39.079,0:52:44.240

that I love them both but yeah let me

 

0:52:41.040,0:52:46.520

ask you let me ask you this a fox and a

 

0:52:44.240,0:52:50.160

Coy come in on the same on the same

 

0:52:46.520,0:52:52.359

stand at the same time they stop at the

 

0:52:50.160,0:52:54.680

same distance one to the left one to the

 

0:52:52.359,0:52:55.880

right you got a clean easy shot at

 

0:52:54.680,0:52:58.680

either one of them it's kind of like a

 

0:52:55.880,0:53:00.559

flip of for the easiest shot uh which

 

0:52:58.680,0:53:04.160

one you shooting first the coyote or the

 

0:53:00.559,0:53:06.440

fox I'm going to shoot the coyote okay

 

0:53:04.160,0:53:10.119

we we'll get we'll get a fox down the

 

0:53:06.440,0:53:12.920

road hey is it is it is it such a is it

 

0:53:10.119,0:53:14.760

that you'd rather shoot coyes but that

 

0:53:12.920,0:53:16.400

30 minute stand is kind of getting in

 

0:53:14.760,0:53:17.839

the way you w to make those 10 minute

 

0:53:16.400,0:53:21.280

stands for the

 

0:53:17.839,0:53:24.880

fox well I I find it hard I know I'm so

 

0:53:21.280,0:53:27.040

geared to Fox on over yeah when when 101

 

0:53:24.880,0:53:30.559

15 minutes rolls up and haven't heard

 

0:53:27.040,0:53:32.319

any coyotes I'm it's hard for me to stay

 

0:53:30.559,0:53:35.520

there

 

0:53:32.319,0:53:37.760

for but yeah but that being said I

 

0:53:35.520,0:53:39.440

understand that I there's times I look

 

0:53:37.760,0:53:42.280

down I feel like I've been there forever

 

0:53:39.440,0:53:42.280

I look down it's 12

 

0:53:42.319,0:53:46.599

minutes but that being said I can't I

 

0:53:44.720,0:53:49.119

don't know if I think on one of your

 

0:53:46.599,0:53:51.400

previous an your questions um you had

 

0:53:49.119,0:53:53.839

asked if I shot a coyote or and a red at

 

0:53:51.400,0:53:56.160

the same stand yeah I said I don't I

 

0:53:53.839,0:53:59.160

said I don't think I have when you had

 

0:53:56.160,0:54:03.079

talked Al about if you had a red and a

 

0:53:59.160,0:54:05.200

coyote yeah close together kind of yeah

 

0:54:03.079,0:54:06.920

brought up I remembered this hunt that

 

0:54:05.200,0:54:09.880

was like two years ago where I had a

 

0:54:06.920,0:54:11.359

coyot come in and I was seeing him

 

0:54:09.880,0:54:15.160

coming in with the

 

0:54:11.359,0:54:17.200

lights and uh I dumped him and I could

 

0:54:15.160,0:54:19.000

see behind him was another set of eyes

 

0:54:17.200,0:54:21.839

I'm like dude there's two coyotes right

 

0:54:19.000,0:54:24.920

and shot the coyote shot to kyot at

 

0:54:21.839,0:54:26.960

probably like 60 yards yep got him in

 

0:54:24.920,0:54:28.640

close because I was yeah I was in

 

0:54:26.960,0:54:30.760

country where there's yeah it's down in

 

0:54:28.640,0:54:33.599

Amish Country and like every farmer has

 

0:54:30.760,0:54:37.799

dogs and I'm like you want to make

 

0:54:33.599,0:54:39.799

sure I'm like this yeah so I shoot the

 

0:54:37.799,0:54:41.920

coyote and I go right to this second set

 

0:54:39.799,0:54:44.480

of eyes thinking it's gonna be another

 

0:54:41.920,0:54:46.400

coyote and that was a red fox and I did

 

0:54:44.480,0:54:49.920

kill that one so yeah so you so you do

 

0:54:46.400,0:54:52.359

have a coyot fox double did yeah okay

 

0:54:49.920,0:54:54.119

nice but yeah now how could you forget

 

0:54:52.359,0:54:56.799

about that earlier that sounds like an

 

0:54:54.119,0:54:58.920

awesome stand to me

 

0:54:56.799,0:55:01.040

you you kill so many it just gets some

 

0:54:58.920,0:55:03.040

of them get a little fuzzy I should be

 

0:55:01.040,0:55:05.240

writing stuff down I talk to my buddies

 

0:55:03.040,0:55:06.880

and they talk about these hunts where

 

0:55:05.240,0:55:09.480

like they're so memorable to them and

 

0:55:06.880,0:55:10.720

I'm like du honestly I I'm gonna have to

 

0:55:09.480,0:55:12.440

I can't really remember what you're

 

0:55:10.720,0:55:14.960

talking

 

0:55:12.440,0:55:17.880

about yeah that's just that's just sign

 

0:55:14.960,0:55:19.040

you getting old yeah I I am I ain't

 

0:55:17.880,0:55:21.280

gonna

 

0:55:19.040,0:55:23.000

yeah hey what you what's your favorite

 

0:55:21.280,0:55:26.839

Fox Pro

 

0:55:23.000,0:55:30.640

unit um well I would say like the the

 

0:55:26.839,0:55:33.160

x24 I love yep um yeah you can't go

 

0:55:30.640,0:55:36.039

wrong with the x24 I mean I like I said

 

0:55:33.160,0:55:38.079

I didn't um I would have ran the fusion

 

0:55:36.039,0:55:41.039

the fusion was a good one for Fox it was

 

0:55:38.079,0:55:42.880

nice and little Fusion was a nice unit

 

0:55:41.039,0:55:45.400

it's a nice unit I always like the

 

0:55:42.880,0:55:47.799

fusion no I killed a lot of fox with the

 

0:55:45.400,0:55:50.440

fusion and then then the shock wave was

 

0:55:47.799,0:55:51.839

a yeah shock wave was a good one as well

 

0:55:50.440,0:55:54.200

and then I went from the shock wave to

 

0:55:51.839,0:55:56.319

the x24 and I just I just love the

 

0:55:54.200,0:56:00.119

versatility of though I mean you got the

 

0:55:56.319,0:56:02.480

volume if you need it on the x24 and yep

 

0:56:00.119,0:56:04.839

yeah hey I totally agree with you I've

 

0:56:02.480,0:56:06.400

ran all three of those units and all

 

0:56:04.839,0:56:08.440

three of them's got a special place in

 

0:56:06.400,0:56:11.480

my heart I wish I still

 

0:56:08.440,0:56:13.960

had um my original

 

0:56:11.480,0:56:16.880

Fusion I don't have it I let I give it

 

0:56:13.960,0:56:19.000

to a buddy of mine and and he still has

 

0:56:16.880,0:56:21.720

it I might have to snag it back from him

 

0:56:19.000,0:56:26.880

someday if he gets another call but but

 

0:56:21.720,0:56:28.640

I I still do have a fury which is almost

 

0:56:26.880,0:56:30.359

identical to it just a different remote

 

0:56:28.640,0:56:31.799

you know still the same body and stuff I

 

0:56:30.359,0:56:33.200

still do have that but I've got my

 

0:56:31.799,0:56:35.160

original shock wave it's actually

 

0:56:33.200,0:56:37.079

sitting here I can reach out and grab it

 

0:56:35.160,0:56:38.839

right now and I always love the shock

 

0:56:37.079,0:56:41.720

wve I've killed so much stuff over top

 

0:56:38.839,0:56:44.359

of the shock wve uh but the

 

0:56:41.720,0:56:47.280

x24 that's a special unit right there I

 

0:56:44.359,0:56:49.960

totally agree with you it's probably it

 

0:56:47.280,0:56:53.039

CS the the x24 has probably been my

 

0:56:49.960,0:56:54.480

favorite unit of all time to date it you

 

0:56:53.039,0:56:57.039

just can't beat

 

0:56:54.480,0:56:58.880

it yeah it's definitely good one I don't

 

0:56:57.039,0:57:01.720

have experience with all the callers

 

0:56:58.880,0:57:05.720

they've had I know everyone talks about

 

0:57:01.720,0:57:09.680

the is it the 24c I got I've here at my

 

0:57:05.720,0:57:13.079

desk I've got some calls here I've got

 

0:57:09.680,0:57:15.319

three units on on a shelf here on my

 

0:57:13.079,0:57:18.000

desk that kind of

 

0:57:15.319,0:57:20.559

hold uh you know they're special to me

 

0:57:18.000,0:57:23.000

because I've done so much with them uh

 

0:57:20.559,0:57:24.960

I've had them all over the the country

 

0:57:23.000,0:57:28.319

and I've had just so many memoral hunts

 

0:57:24.960,0:57:31.480

with them and one of them is a shock wve

 

0:57:28.319,0:57:34.160

my first Shockwave and then I've got a

 

0:57:31.480,0:57:37.960

cs24c here what you was talking about

 

0:57:34.160,0:57:41.520

there this cs24c it was I bought that

 

0:57:37.960,0:57:43.720

unit it was a unit that I ran through uh

 

0:57:41.520,0:57:47.079

a big portion of the tooth and Claw TV

 

0:57:43.720,0:57:49.440

days it's just it uh there's so many

 

0:57:47.079,0:57:51.680

good memories that cs24 and it is a

 

0:57:49.440,0:57:54.000

great unit the bulletproof you can't

 

0:57:51.680,0:57:55.520

tear you can't try you can try to tear

 

0:57:54.000,0:57:57.799

them up and you can't tear them up I've

 

0:57:55.520,0:57:59.319

left them in a pack of trucks and they'

 

0:57:57.799,0:58:01.880

stayed in the truck all night long with

 

0:57:59.319,0:58:04.440

it raining rain 2 in on them and have to

 

0:58:01.880,0:58:07.240

pour water out the horn and throw it up

 

0:58:04.440,0:58:08.559

to defrost the truck to try to warm it

 

0:58:07.240,0:58:10.559

up then you get out there and just start

 

0:58:08.559,0:58:12.559

making coyot stand and just burn them to

 

0:58:10.559,0:58:15.000

the ground it's just one of those

 

0:58:12.559,0:58:16.799

mythical units that that'll always be

 

0:58:15.000,0:58:18.280

relevant too I mean I think it was one

 

0:58:16.799,0:58:19.960

of those deals that's kind of ahead of

 

0:58:18.280,0:58:21.480

its time when it first come out that's

 

0:58:19.960,0:58:23.640

an old unit it's been out for a long

 

0:58:21.480,0:58:25.839

time and it's it's just a good one the

 

0:58:23.640,0:58:27.880

cs24c was a good one definitely

 

0:58:25.839,0:58:29.480

definitely

 

0:58:27.880,0:58:31.160

and and the third unit up here since I

 

0:58:29.480,0:58:34.760

named three of them I've actually got

 

0:58:31.160,0:58:36.880

the very first Fox Pro x2s which has

 

0:58:34.760,0:58:38.640

been discontinued now as well I've got

 

0:58:36.880,0:58:40.720

the x2s sitting up here on the Shelf too

 

0:58:38.640,0:58:42.520

it's the very first x2s that went in the

 

0:58:40.720,0:58:44.039

field the first field unit killed the

 

0:58:42.520,0:58:46.319

first KY so I figured I better hold on

 

0:58:44.039,0:58:49.680

to it

 

0:58:46.319,0:58:52.039

too yeah hey watch you watch your three

 

0:58:49.680,0:58:54.400

favorite what's your top three favorite

 

0:58:52.039,0:58:58.599

sounds for

 

0:58:54.400,0:59:00.920

Fox uh pick three sounds for Fox I'm G

 

0:58:58.599,0:59:00.920

to

 

0:59:00.960,0:59:06.520

pick I'm probably going to pick brown

 

0:59:03.599,0:59:09.640

thrasher um baby Cotton Tail 2 and

 

0:59:06.520,0:59:11.799

probably Platinum gray nice I'd say the

 

0:59:09.640,0:59:13.799

fox are in trouble we'll switch over to

 

0:59:11.799,0:59:16.400

coyot you going you got your two getting

 

0:59:13.799,0:59:18.319

your 250 out of the truck and you going

 

0:59:16.400,0:59:20.720

to make some coyote stands we hand you

 

0:59:18.319,0:59:23.799

x24 and we say you can pick three sounds

 

0:59:20.720,0:59:25.440

on it to run a rest of coyote season

 

0:59:23.799,0:59:27.839

what three sounds you going to have on

 

0:59:25.440,0:59:31.760

your X2 for for

 

0:59:27.839,0:59:34.240

cows um I'm probably going to use the

 

0:59:31.760,0:59:39.599

the come here lonely house all right

 

0:59:34.240,0:59:43.559

from mfk yep yeah the coyote pup stress

 

0:59:39.599,0:59:45.599

three and probably table scraps nice

 

0:59:43.559,0:59:47.079

nice they'll be they'll definitely be in

 

0:59:45.599,0:59:50.280

trouble now I got a good one for you

 

0:59:47.079,0:59:51.400

right here you can only have one sound

 

0:59:50.280,0:59:55.280

on your

 

0:59:51.400,0:59:57.839

x24 to run the rest of this season and

 

0:59:55.280,1:00:00.000

you're going to be making Fox stands and

 

0:59:57.839,1:00:02.039

coyote stands but you can only have one

 

1:00:00.000,1:00:04.599

sound for for the whole season to hunt

 

1:00:02.039,1:00:06.200

everything what sound you going to take

 

1:00:04.599,1:00:10.039

oh that's a tough

 

1:00:06.200,1:00:13.559

one um yeah if you're combining them

 

1:00:10.039,1:00:13.559

both I'm probably actually G to

 

1:00:13.640,1:00:17.799

use oh I mean you're not going to call

 

1:00:16.079,1:00:20.119

as many fox in it but I've called quite

 

1:00:17.799,1:00:24.359

a few fox in with the coy pup distress

 

1:00:20.119,1:00:26.559

three over the years yeah yeah yeah I've

 

1:00:24.359,1:00:29.319

actually called a red fox in the how P

 

1:00:26.559,1:00:33.240

to stress number three and see of that

 

1:00:29.319,1:00:36.000

are going to be either yeah Mrs motton

 

1:00:33.240,1:00:38.480

tail or yeah that that one's a tough one

 

1:00:36.000,1:00:41.280

to narrow down you know you shocked me

 

1:00:38.480,1:00:44.680

on that one because I kind I had a guess

 

1:00:41.280,1:00:46.039

I was I was torn between two two sounds

 

1:00:44.680,1:00:49.280

I figured you was either going to go

 

1:00:46.039,1:00:52.520

with you baby Cottontail 2 cuz I know

 

1:00:49.280,1:00:55.079

it'll call CS I've called CS like crazy

 

1:00:52.520,1:00:58.240

with that sound and I thought the other

 

1:00:55.079,1:01:00.400

sound I thought might say Platinum gray

 

1:00:58.240,1:01:03.359

fox dous

 

1:01:00.400,1:01:05.319

yeah and I've I've killed yeah I've

 

1:01:03.359,1:01:09.359

called I've called coyotes in with that

 

1:01:05.319,1:01:12.200

sound not on a consistent basis but yeah

 

1:01:09.359,1:01:14.520

I would say I've killed I've killed well

 

1:01:12.200,1:01:16.839

like in most of the areas I I shouldn't

 

1:01:14.520,1:01:21.680

say most of the areas if I hunt a little

 

1:01:16.839,1:01:24.240

bit north um like k i play Platinum gray

 

1:01:21.680,1:01:27.680

and then the last two years three years

 

1:01:24.240,1:01:30.640

I've I've Incorporated like uh coyote

 

1:01:27.680,1:01:32.480

pup distress 3 in the stand as well yeah

 

1:01:30.640,1:01:34.960

in case there is coyotes in the area I

 

1:01:32.480,1:01:36.799

mean they seem to yeah I've killed quite

 

1:01:34.960,1:01:40.000

a few coyotes with that sound over the

 

1:01:36.799,1:01:43.680

years so but if you can only have one

 

1:01:40.000,1:01:45.920

sound for all season for both Critters

 

1:01:43.680,1:01:47.520

Fox and coyot is gonna be pup distress

 

1:01:45.920,1:01:49.680

number

 

1:01:47.520,1:01:52.400

three yeah

 

1:01:49.680,1:01:56.760

oh I'm kind of torn on that one you can

 

1:01:52.400,1:01:58.520

hey you can only have one I he

 

1:01:56.760,1:02:01.200

we send you a new call I might just play

 

1:01:58.520,1:02:02.960

at trick on I'll tell Mike say you can

 

1:02:01.200,1:02:04.839

he can only have one sound and we'll

 

1:02:02.960,1:02:07.960

lock it up or you can only have one

 

1:02:04.839,1:02:10.079

sound why you gonna Pi I think I think

 

1:02:07.960,1:02:12.200

if it's gonna be one sound I'm gonna

 

1:02:10.079,1:02:14.440

have to pick some type of I think I'm

 

1:02:12.200,1:02:17.039

gonna have to go with uh remember you

 

1:02:14.440,1:02:21.000

got your hand you got your hand calls

 

1:02:17.039,1:02:22.680

yeah yeah yeah I got all them so yeah

 

1:02:21.000,1:02:24.880

but yeah I would probably go with some

 

1:02:22.680,1:02:28.319

rabbit sound probably I mean there's so

 

1:02:24.880,1:02:30.799

many good ones but like Mrs motton tail

 

1:02:28.319,1:02:32.760

hey that'll be a good one that'd be a

 

1:02:30.799,1:02:35.760

good one right

 

1:02:32.760,1:02:37.319

there yeah you you didn't know you was

 

1:02:35.760,1:02:39.079

gonna have a tough question like that

 

1:02:37.319,1:02:40.880

did you yeah I would have you T I would

 

1:02:39.079,1:02:42.599

have you torn a little bit all right one

 

1:02:40.880,1:02:44.680

more then we're gonna get off here I got

 

1:02:42.599,1:02:47.799

to ask this one to you I think I already

 

1:02:44.680,1:02:50.400

know the answer you've heard me ask if

 

1:02:47.799,1:02:54.359

your life depended on it question tequil

 

1:02:50.400,1:02:57.359

a coyot have you ever heard that yep yep

 

1:02:54.359,1:02:59.680

so I'm I'm Trucking you out there in a

 

1:02:57.359,1:03:02.160

helicopter going drop you off in that

 

1:02:59.680,1:03:04.720

remote region of the world it's got

 

1:03:02.160,1:03:06.400

Couts and your job is to go down there

 

1:03:04.720,1:03:07.880

and kill one you kill one I come back in

 

1:03:06.400,1:03:10.319

there and save your life I'm going to

 

1:03:07.880,1:03:11.799

let you have your x24 you can I ain't

 

1:03:10.319,1:03:14.760

going to restrict you to one sound you

 

1:03:11.799,1:03:16.960

can have all the sounds you want the the

 

1:03:14.760,1:03:19.880

only the kicker is you get to take a

 

1:03:16.960,1:03:21.599

rifle and you only get one cartridge you

 

1:03:19.880,1:03:24.880

get one

 

1:03:21.599,1:03:26.839

bullet what caliber are you choosing

 

1:03:24.880,1:03:28.240

what choice what caliber are you you

 

1:03:26.839,1:03:32.039

going to take you you going to take you

 

1:03:28.240,1:03:33.279

17 with you you know if you miss then it

 

1:03:32.039,1:03:35.520

it don't matter what you shooting

 

1:03:33.279,1:03:37.480

because you missed but I'm pretty sure

 

1:03:35.520,1:03:40.200

you're going to call a coyote up pretty

 

1:03:37.480,1:03:41.520

close and you're going to sink a bullet

 

1:03:40.200,1:03:45.039

right into his

 

1:03:41.520,1:03:46.680

chest what caliber you're going to take

 

1:03:45.039,1:03:48.920

to make sure you down that so I can come

 

1:03:46.680,1:03:52.640

back in there and save your life well

 

1:03:48.920,1:03:52.640

I'll be taking the 250 22

 

1:03:53.000,1:03:59.240

250 I need to get back home so yeah

 

1:03:56.799,1:04:01.920

there is a chance super Maggie runs off

 

1:03:59.240,1:04:03.480

but yeah the 250s if I hit him where I'm

 

1:04:01.920,1:04:06.400

supposed to he's gonna be laying there

 

1:04:03.480,1:04:08.240

total confidence in it yep that's good

 

1:04:06.400,1:04:10.599

stuff Cliff I appreciate you coming on

 

1:04:08.240,1:04:12.400

buddy well it's been an honor thank you

 

1:04:10.599,1:04:14.240

for the opportunity and we're gonna have

 

1:04:12.400,1:04:16.079

to get you on here again I got all kinds

 

1:04:14.240,1:04:19.440

of stuff I can talk to you

 

1:04:16.079,1:04:22.119

about yeah I I don't know if I gave out

 

1:04:19.440,1:04:24.760

what guys are looking for but uh yeah

 

1:04:22.119,1:04:27.480

that's kind of what I do and there's so

 

1:04:24.760,1:04:29.760

many different ways to call Fox in um

 

1:04:27.480,1:04:32.200

but that's just what I do that's a I

 

1:04:29.760,1:04:34.960

think it's a great introduction to to

 

1:04:32.200,1:04:36.279

Cliff Martin on to the fox Pro podcast I

 

1:04:34.960,1:04:39.079

think we can get you on here another

 

1:04:36.279,1:04:41.400

time for maybe a fox calling 2.0 or

 

1:04:39.079,1:04:43.480

maybe dive deep in the in the coyotes up

 

1:04:41.400,1:04:45.480

in the northeast or anything we got I'd

 

1:04:43.480,1:04:47.319

love to get you back on here again but

 

1:04:45.480,1:04:49.200

uh is there anything you'd like to leave

 

1:04:47.319,1:04:52.720

everybody with before we jump

 

1:04:49.200,1:04:55.240

off no I think I'm good but yeah aim aim

 

1:04:52.720,1:04:57.319

small Miss small there you go shoot

 

1:04:55.240,1:04:59.760

straight shoot often

 

1:04:57.319,1:05:01.640

right there you go hey we hope everyone

 

1:04:59.760,1:05:05.720

enjoyed this episode we hope you join us

 

1:05:01.640,1:05:05.720

again right here on the fox Pro podcast