Coyote Hunters

[bru]

What is the best method of coyote disposal post hunt? If you keep the hides or not what do you do with the dog? Looking to get out for my first coyote hunt soon. They're year round out here and can't pass up the opportunity to be in the field more. Want to make sure my heads in the game.
THNX

[bru]

Got some goods facts else where. How come 40 of you looked at this and no one responded. Touchy subject? Can't imagine why. Anyway, I didn't mean to post anything contoversial.:(

[toxic111]

I guess some people didn't know what to respond. We had a huge debate a little while ago on keep hides/vrs. leave them lay... It got pretty heated for a bit, and that could be why.

For me I don't keep the furs, so in most cases I leave them where they lay. I will usually try to keep them away from well travelled roads, but I rarely hunt close to roads to begin with.

I think the thing to do, even with a skinned coyote is to hide it the best you can in the bush, or far from eyes. Think if you don't want to see it, no one does.

[tooldummy]

Bru, I guess some guys get pretty upset when you don't sell the fur. I hear of guys getting $40 for a pelt, but down where I live I hear more of $5.00 and $10.00 for good ones. The nearest fur buyer is about 35 miles from me, and with gas at it's current price of $2.55 a gallon, I can't justify travelling to far to sell a pelt. So, I just drag them over to the nearest fencerow and leave them. But, don't get me wrong, I don't hurt their population much. If I was killing 25 or 30 a year, I might consider selling the fur. Around here the property owners are so happy they've been shot nobody says much about leaving them in a fencerow away from the road and out of the fields.

[royinidaho]

What Toxic said.....

[Cobra]

Nearest fence row or stone pile. Farmers just want them dead near me, last I checked pelts were less than $10.

[bru]

Sounds about right. I pursue meat usually. Wanted to take a second to make sure I'm not being unsportsmanlike. I'm only now beginning to plan for some coyote hunting so I appreciate your words. There's a mystic and a challenge at hand here that really intrigues me.

[BILLY D.]

bru

ditto what cobra said. i've seen other yotes feasting on left behind carcasses and also crows. i guess there is such a thing as a free lunch. lol

yes they are fascinating to hunt and a challenge. i like to hunt just before weather fronts move in or just as after they are moving out. i like to cross country ski and i can get into some pretty inaccessable areas that way. last year about this time i almost killed myself doing that. i was starting back to my truck and had a back spasm. had to drag my skis behind me and the last 3/4 of a mile i was walking on my hands and knees. the one redeeming factor that kept me going was imagining the headlines in the morning paper: idiot freezes to death coyote hunting. when i got back to the truck i never realized i loved it so much.

by the way , yes i do carry a cell phone for emergency purposes, and i have a cb radio in the truck. a very tweaked cb radio. i'm 70 and don't like to take too many chances. but if they do find me dead sometime and i'm in the woods or out on the prairie consider that i died a happy man.

have fun chasing yotes they are lots of fun and you see lots of other interesting things, depending on the time of year.

[Nulle]

We have a buyer that comes to our city so that works well for me and I just turn the whole thing over to him. The price is garbage but what the heck more then I would have had if left lay I guess.

[Jonesy]

Have a buddy that skins and stretches himself and sells to a buyer in Canada when he gets a pile. I just want the skulls from the animals to boil and clean. If the hide is not prime or nasty, I take the skull on the spot and leave the rest for the worms and buzzards.

[22-250fanatic]

I kill a few coyotes every year and the most of them I leave lay, the pelts weren't very good this year. I am having one mounted that I did kill last year that had a good coat. I don't think that leaving them lay is any worse than the deer that die and aren't found or a dead cow from a farmer. To me they aren't worth anything other than the pursuit and knowing you outwitted a very intelligent animal, that is on the rare occasion that you do outwitt one. I've went home many times without firing a shot but that one time that a coyote comes to my call is so exciting that I will go out 20 times ohter times and not get discouraged. If I had the opportunity to deer hunt or coyote hunt, I'd go coyote hunting every time. I am completely hooked.

[catdaddy]

come on yall, you dont even keep there pelts or make bait stations with um, u gotta youse a part of it, coyote fur is gettin to be at a good price, well at least thays what the fur report says
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[gooser]

:) the ones I shot I just let lay because they had some mange.
:D Oh hey Billy D, I laughed for 5 minutes about your swappin underwear statement