Heart or head? (FOX)

[MysteryChicken]

Head. More chance of instant death. No mess if you use a .22.

Not 100% efficient, or clean. I've done this with a opossum. Shot it between the eyes, brains oozed out of it's head, & it thrashed around madly, then it stopped. I opened the cage thinking it was dead to remove it, the opossum backed up out of the cage, and was walking around in a circle like a confused zombie, & it was growling. So I had to deliver two more shots to the head.

Experienced the same thing with shooting a rabbit in the head, except it tried to run away. We have too many rabbits, they've been destroying some of our gardens.

 

[SueT]

Hit the brain stem if you can.

 

[cluckmecoop7]

Ok everyone. Still counting votes though!

 

[sourland]

Not 100% efficient, or clean. I've done this with a opossum.

Big difference between a fox and an opossum. Fox appear to be more 'delicate' than opossums and are far easier to dispatch.

 

[cluckmecoop7]

Big difference between a fox and an opossum. Fox appear to be more 'delicate' than opossums and are far easier to dispatch.

I'm glad to here that!

 

[bobbi-j]

Fox are also harder to catch.

 

[cluckmecoop7]

Fox are also harder to catch.

Oh.

 

[aart]

Fox are also harder to catch.

Waaaayyyy harder than an opossum!

 

[imnukensc]

There are many places on the head where a predator can be shot. If it isn't an instant, totally incapacitating kill, then the shooter did not do it correctly.

 

[blackandtan]

If you don’t mind ruining the head of the pelt and you are truly concerned about not making the fox suffer and not confident about your shooting abilities, use a .410 aimed at the head; you will get an instant kill, the tiny lead pellets don’t ricochet (mind you don’t aim at a rock cause you never know), and don’t shoot anywhere that chickens could pick up the pellets afterward.
I have dispatched an unfortunate number of skunks over the years, they’re always trying to hibernate under my coop no matter what I do, most have been with a .22 to the head but a couple of times one was cornered and they had a little wiggle room and I just didn’t want to risk wounding them so mr. .410 got called into action. Gotta do what you gotta do sometimes.