Originally Posted By: YellowhammerSnowman, did you try and fox distress? I think I am hearing coyote distress on the caller. I have had good luck with screaming gray and platinum gray on getting them in close.
I sure did. I usually start my calling sequence with some higher pitched cottontail calls, throw in some bird calls and finish with fox/canine pup distress calls.
The first contact we made on that stand was on cottontail calls, about 60 seconds in. Then when it started barking I switched into several different fox distress calls. When that wasn't panning out I switched into canine pup distress calls.
On the video you can hear that I am running grey fox distress calls until about the 5:40 mark, when I switched into canine pups, which I ran for about a minute or so before I went into pup distress 3. PD3 is actually quite effective for not only foxes but also bobcats.
All the calls got some responses, barking, movement and we even got a fox to pop up on the rock right in front of us. But Shauna, my shooter, wasn't good at taking off hand shots so she was shooting from a stick and couldn't get a shot on it.
We were at the first stand location for about 19 minutes total. Then Shauna and I relocated and started the stand again. We were at these rocks a total of over 30 minutes. Normally I wouldn't stay that long but we had so much contact we had to stick it out.
It was amazing getting to see the two different perspectives on this stand. Not something that you get to see everyday.