New critter bait/ fox question

[FL-NC]

I stumbled upon a new bait that brought in just about everything last night (possums, coons, foxes) as seen on my camera this morning- OLD GREASE! As in the stuff left over from cooking that you don't want to pour down the sink. Normally I use whatever is left over from dinner and trash trimmings from deer, but the grease turned that area into a zoo! Also- I'm restricted to using 22 LR in a certain area for foxes. Besides head shots, what is the recommended shot placement on these guys to put them down as quickly as possible? I'm thinking high chest from the front. Range will be maxed at about 30 yards.

 

[entropy]

It makes the dog droppings on the lawn disappear, too; a couple drops on each pile, and they magically disappear in a day or two.

 

[Patocazador]

Believe it or not, it's illegal to kill foxes in Fla., even non-native red foxes, so I don't know what the best shot would be.

 

[Art Eatman]

Never pour grease down the drain. Eventually, it will clog. It cools, slows down to a stop and a build-up and eventually it's Roto-Rooter time.

I've used bacon grease on a piece of rag, tied to a fence wire, just to check the tracks to see what sort of critters came to sniff at it. Coyotes and cougars, mostly.

 

[MCgunner]

Well, grease ain't good for septic systems, either.

Interesting. I have never though of grease as a predator bait. I always put my gut piles in front of the game camera to see what comes along, but always just get lots of pix of vultures. I will try this. I'm not real interested in killing predators except for coyotes. We've got packs of coyotes all over the place out here and I've had 'em take a chicken or two in broad daylight. I kill 'em on sight. Foxes will do the same thing and we have fox and bobcat, but they're not in the huge numbers that coyotes are.

 

[FL-NC]

Believe it or not, it's illegal to kill foxes in Fla., even non-native red foxes, so I don't know what the best shot would be.

I know- I'm moving down there in the near future so I guess no more foxes for me when I get there. In some counties in NC you can kill all you want year round.

 

[FL-NC]

Well, grease ain't good for septic systems, either.

Interesting. I have never though of grease as a predator bait. I always put my gut piles in front of the game camera to see what comes along, but always just get lots of pix of vultures. I will try this. I'm not real interested in killing predators except for coyotes. We've got packs of coyotes all over the place out here and I've had 'em take a chicken or two in broad daylight. I kill 'em on sight. Foxes will do the same thing and we have fox and bobcat, but they're not in the huge numbers that coyotes are.

I've heard they even use grease for bear bait where its legal to bait them.

 

[Ruezim]

When my uncle baits bear he uses old donuts and grease as his main part of the bait.

 

[Art Eatman]

Given the love that bears have for beehives in Florida, honey should be good bait. Some bee-keepers use electric fences to try and keep bears away from their hives.

 

[Patocazador]

When my uncle baits bear he uses old donuts and grease as his main part of the bait.

If you don't have time to establish a bait station (where baiting bears is legal), a grease burn will send the odor downwind and sometimes bring in a bear quickly. My brother does this when hunting public land in Wisc.

 

[entropy]

I used to use a "bacon burner"for bear hunting. It's a coffee can (back when it came in cans) with a peanut can (back when they came in cans) suspended by three small sections of wire. You'd light a small Sterno can in the coffee can, quickly hang the peanut can, then toss some bacon in the peanut can. It brought bears in, but they'd just circle me till past legal shooting time......

 

[Sunray]

"... bacon grease on a piece of rag..." Big, pickle jar with wee holes in the lid, hung upside down in a tree in the sun has been used for bear bait for eons. Where baiting anything is legal.
"...restricted to using 22 LR..." Try some hypervelocity ammo like CCI Mini-mags. Gotta try a box for accuracy and cycling(assuming semi-auto) first.
You don't want to pour grease of any kind down the sink.

 

[H&Hhunter]

Funny,

The old bear and lion outfitter I used to guide for in New Mexico had told me about smearing bacon grease on a tree trunk and then hanging a rag or a piece of cotton stripping near it to attract Mt Lion. I always thought he was having one over on me with that. So I'm a bit surprised to be reading this now 17 years after the fact.