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Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: Blaflair2 on July 24, 2014, 01:14:22 am

Title: Red fox road kill
Post by: Blaflair2 on July 24, 2014, 01:14:22 am
Found a fresh red fox on my way home tonight. Never tanned a hide so I may have to do some reading. Couldn't resist picking it up. It's in my freezer now
Title: Re: Red fox road kill
Post by: 4dog on July 24, 2014, 08:14:00 am
lucky bugger!!    >:(
Title: Re: Red fox road kill
Post by: Pappy on July 24, 2014, 08:19:43 am
Yep,good find,sometimes this time of year they are pretty rough tho,better than nothing but not prime time for hides. ;)
   Pappy
Title: Re: Red fox road kill
Post by: lesken2011 on July 24, 2014, 08:40:54 am
I saw one yesterday morning on my way to an appt. It looked like it had just been hit by a car, but did not look too badly damaged as I rode by. I would have loved to have stopped and picked it up, but was running late.
Title: Re: Red fox road kill
Post by: Knoll on July 24, 2014, 08:49:58 am
The Wife Finds Fox in the Freezer . . . I can imagine the headline.  Divorce Court here we go.   ;)
Title: Re: Red fox road kill
Post by: Blaflair2 on July 24, 2014, 09:51:58 am
He actually looked really good. Fur was nice and clean. I told the mrs about my new friend in the freezer. It should make a nice quiver
Title: Re: Red fox road kill
Post by: autologus on July 24, 2014, 10:11:54 am
The Wife Finds Fox in the Freezer . . . I can imagine the headline.  Divorce Court here we go.   ;)

If my wife can live with 7 copperheads, a cottonmouth, and a timber rattler in the freezer I would think a fox would be nothing.

Grady
Title: Re: Red fox road kill
Post by: JW_Halverson on July 24, 2014, 01:25:55 pm
Please tell me that it did not suddenly come back to live, leap up and savagely attack your arm and that you had to choke the life out of it!!!   >:D

Other than that, congrats!  To quote the philosopher, poet and large animal veterinarian, Baxter Black,
"For the sake of a garment,
Recycle that varmint!
It's tacky to just hit and run."
Title: Re: Red fox road kill
Post by: Zuma on July 24, 2014, 10:16:36 pm
I was a trapper and hunter from birth.
If you found a fur bearing creature in the late 80's (road kill) or hunted it was
worth taking it to a fur buyer. They had to give you at least a buck for it.
No idea about today. But back in the good ole days a large coon was worth $35.
Red fox $125.
Sure I put one in my trunk (in a plastic bag I always carried). I used my truck to work and hunt. This find was on a Friday night out to dinner with my wife.
I drove a big Ford Galaxy, I think.
Fast forward a week or so------ Yeah a warm week in October---
Yuck
Zuma
Title: Re: Red fox road kill
Post by: Blaflair2 on July 24, 2014, 10:33:20 pm
This was fresh. Couldn't pass it up. Went straight in the freezer
Title: Re: Red fox road kill
Post by: autologus on July 25, 2014, 09:40:36 am
I was a trapper and hunter from birth.
If you found a fur bearing creature in the late 80's (road kill) or hunted it was
worth taking it to a fur buyer. They had to give you at least a buck for it.
No idea about today. But back in the good ole days a large coon was worth $35.
Red fox $125.
Sure I put one in my trunk (in a plastic bag I always carried). I used my truck to work and hunt. This find was on a Friday night out to dinner with my wife.
I drove a big Ford Galaxy, I think.
Fast forward a week or so------ Yeah a warm week in October---
Yuck
Zuma

You sound like me, I carry a leather glove and a gallon ziploc bag in my car for road kill snakes.  I usually just throw them in the floorboard.

Grady
Title: Re: Red fox road kill
Post by: Zuma on July 25, 2014, 09:54:25 pm
 
"You sound like me, I carry a leather glove and a gallon ziploc bag in my car for road kill snakes.  I usually just throw them in the floorboard."

Grady




That's cool,
Just don't leave them there for a week or so in mild weather.
Yuck
Zuma