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This page is dedicated to the number one TIP I can give you. If you don't do anything else these pages says, follow this tip for success. And, I've hiden this page toward the back of the pack as a reward for all of you that have made it this far! Good for you.

I get a lot of email telling me that the guy is not having any luck hunting foxes. They tell me how they set up, how they call and that they don't see anything. It generally goes something like this:

"I've been hunting my uncle's 160 acre farm all winter long and haven't gotten any foxes. I know they are there because I see them all fall when I'm out hunting deer and stuff. What am I doing wrong?"

I don't know about anything else from this note except that here is a hunter who is spending all of his calling time on the same farm. He likely goes out there once or twice a week and calls and never sees anything. Let me tell you, there are foxes there and there is no way they are going to come in when they hear the same song every weekend.

The number one way to be successful is to get access to A LOT of land so you don't have to hunt your spots more than once or twice a year. The really hot spots could be hit once a month with a different sound and you'll have some success there. But, the bottom line is that you HAVE to have a ton of land to hunt on. If you don't, you'll likely see foxes the first time you call there and then never again, especially if you call it a lot.

When I say a lot of land, I'm not talking about just more than one farm. For example, during the years I was doing most of my hunting, I often called up or visited fifty farmers in a season asking for permission. My hunting partner, Paul Stine probably called that many up where he lives too. So, between the two of us, we probably had somewhere around 75 farms to hunt on. Add in some state and other public land and our weekends in North Dakota hunting foxes and we had some major acreage to hunt on. Most of the time we could hit each spot no more than once or twice a season. This kept each spot fresh and our response ratio was out of this world.

SO, NUMBER ONE TIP. GET PERMISSION FOR MORE LAND THAN YOU EVER THINK YOU CAN HUNT ON. AND, PRIVATE LAND EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI IS BETTER THAN PUBLIC LAND! GET OUT THERE AND KNOCK ON SOME DOORS!