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Vince Site Admin
Joined: May 25, 2005 Posts: 15882 Location: Brisbane AUSTRALIA
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Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2023 8:40 pm Post subject: Culling foxes |
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A brilliant effort from a father and daughter in Western Australia.
Teamwork saw this father/daughter pair cull 194 foxes! What is the most you have ever culled in a night?
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Elvis Super Member
Joined: Jul 27, 2008 Posts: 9350 Location: south island New Zealand
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Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2023 10:10 pm Post subject: Re: Culling foxes |
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how big/small is a foxes usual territory????
Kerry and I shot 380 rabbits one night.99% were headshot,all were gutted and recovered for commercial pet food,that was a lot of driving around close to 500ha I guess.
on search n destroy some of the guys were shooting over 1000. 1600 were shot by a team one night...and that was before thermal imaging..... I would think that could be bettered now.
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Vince Site Admin
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Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2023 8:43 pm Post subject: Re: Culling foxes |
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That is brilliant feral eradication mate. Up to 1000 bunnies a night is nothing to sneeze at (would cost a shilling or more in ammo too), and would be a helluva lot of work to dress, depending on how thorough they were in cleaning them, although I can do a rabbit in about 15 - 20 seconds now…not counting washing them out. Still, for 1000 bunnies at 20 seconds per carcass, that’s still 5 1/2 hrs of skinning and cleaning.
Red Fox territory will generally range from 5 to 10 square miles depending on food availability. Having said that, when my daughter lived in London, she would often see foxes in and around the inner suburbs. I would imagine they would probably be right into the heart of London as well, certainly in the parks etc around Buckingham Palace.
We have the occasional fox sighting around our area, and we are about 15 km from the Brisbane city centre as the crow flies.
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Elvis Super Member
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Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2023 9:49 pm Post subject: Re: Culling foxes |
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ah ha..... so. our ammunition used was LESS than a brick of winchester power point for that 380
and now you see my point re the foxes shown..... 5-10 square miles is a foxes home turf..how many foxes live in that home turf??? if we say 20 that means that couple had to get a 100% kill in each of 10 territories missing one from 6 of them....and would need to cover......100 square miles worth of territory ....
I suggest they have been shot over a couple of weeks/months and kept in chiller till time to pose for photo..... happy to be proven wrong but thats a hell of a lot of apex preditors to be hit at once.
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Elvis Super Member
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Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2023 6:03 pm Post subject: Re: Culling foxes |
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both whistling and drive dont adress the home range area.... lol. maybe they were from around 10 big free range chicken farms??? thats a lot of tails for fishing flies no matter how its looked at. hope the pelts got utilised.
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Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2023 8:06 pm Post subject: Re: Culling foxes |
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