what are you keeping pelts for? is someone buying them in your province?
Here in BC nobody is paying anything to make it worth my while so larger calibers get used, great practice for long range hunting.
Calling rifle
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Here in BC nobody is paying anything to make it worth my while so larger calibers get used, great practice for long range hunting.
I know of a few guys buying them. They will even drive to my door and pick them up.
According to last years Feb. auction heavy 1 coyotes were averaging $90 and semi 1 were $45 NAFA, eastern coyotes were alot less. Top coyote sold for $750
i have a 220ai a shilen barrel that i screwed onto a savage action. it is by far the best chambering i've ever hunted coytoes with including my 223 wssms. it's very accurate and very flat. being a rimmed cartridge it doesn't feed as nice as a 22-250 but better than a 223wssm
at 425 yards sighted in 1" high @ 100 i put my crosshairs on the back of a yote (maybe a touch above) and dropped it where it stood.
at 425 yards sighted in 1" high @ 100 i put my crosshairs on the back of a yote (maybe a touch above) and dropped it where it stood.
Im just wanting to get into coyote hunting, but my weapon of choice currently is a 270 (No money for a varmint rifle, i've spent my gun budget twice over this year already lol) and from what I have read, it just destroys them...
My question is this: Dont you have to harvest the hide on coyotes if you shoot them?
Also isnt there a fur auction in Kamloops mid-December? I think I read online somewhere good pelts were going for $90+ there last year?
To the OP, if I had the choice I would probably get a 22-250 in a bolt action. Not as fast as a semi, but more accurate. If I was to get a semi, it would probably be something in 223 because I wouldn't be taking shots as long as I would with a 22-250 or 220 swift anyways, due to the aformentioned accuracy differences and 223 ammo is cheap.
I like the 22-250 because it is common. I know I can find ammo for it somewhere if I need to. Walmart and CT around here both have 22-250. I can't say the same about 204 ruger, or even 220 swift.
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Donny Fenn1
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- East Kootenays
i shoot mostly large cattle farms or land next to them, it isn't uncommon to have multiple dogs come in to stand, my best stand ever with a bolt is two with a couple running away
with the Swiss I've had many 3 dog stands with none running away
this when i hunt/call by myself with a partner the odds go up of course but oddly enough when with a partner i don't have as many multiple dog call ins
and i'm not poo pooing bolts by any means i have lots and since the reclassification debacle that's what i've been taking
with the Swiss I've had many 3 dog stands with none running away
this when i hunt/call by myself with a partner the odds go up of course but oddly enough when with a partner i don't have as many multiple dog call ins
and i'm not poo pooing bolts by any means i have lots and since the reclassification debacle that's what i've been taking
- Location
- Saskatoon Saskatchewan
i hate to be boring but you could just pick up a plain old rem 788 in 22-250. They aren't very pretty but damn do they shoot. I'm sure you could re-stock it to dress it up a bit though. It would be hard to beat for a coyote calling rifle. What do you plan to use for glass? I like a 3-9x40 for calling.
Coyotes are pests and dispatched as such on farms. $90 is not much at all when you factor in the time and effort that goes in to the hide plus traveling to an auction. The best pay was when the government offers a bounty.
For those of you that don't think it is worth skinning western coyotes all I can say is you should try it sometimes. My new Cooper model 51 in 204 will be paid for with coyote pelts. The model 51 has been available for about a year now and I had Clay ship a custom built one to my house. Did not quite have all the options on it I wanted so I sent it back and will wait the couple extra months for the one I want to be finished. I did get to check it out and the magazine will be long enough to seat the bullets to the lands unlike my Sako. The Cooper will weigh quite a bit more than 6 pounds but if I need a light 204 to carry all day I will take my Browning Stainless A-bolt in 204 with me. The Browning weighs in at 6.2ozs before scope and rings.
Get three or four, and it adds up though. Also whats the legality of treating them like pests? They are game animals with scheduled open seasons, and the regs say they are a fur bearing animal, which would mean you are required to harvest the pelt, no?
still the time it takes to prep the hide for that which I have not seen anyone offer to pay for even the nicest ones I have shot.
Regs say you have to take the animal or hide to your place of residence. In the case of a farmer on his own land he is already there and usually has a permit to protect livestock on his land on top of a hunting license.
Love. My Tikka in .204, very accurate, but feels like hauling a small car over my shoulder.
Have a .220 Swift on a M77 and it isn't much lighter.
A .17 Rem too, on a rem 700, it is the lightest of my varmint guns, and very fur friendly. Not a big fan of the wind though, or a mild breeze..
Next one will be a 204/17, try for an even lighter gun next time.
204 is hard to beat, it has the speed, fur friendly, and very accurate. Ammo is easy to find too.
Have a .220 Swift on a M77 and it isn't much lighter.
A .17 Rem too, on a rem 700, it is the lightest of my varmint guns, and very fur friendly. Not a big fan of the wind though, or a mild breeze..
Next one will be a 204/17, try for an even lighter gun next time.
204 is hard to beat, it has the speed, fur friendly, and very accurate. Ammo is easy to find too.
The guys I know that shoot can get 100 plus a winter here in Sask. I've had one day where I shot 10 and that was only driving about 20 mins from home base. You get enough and guys come and get them from you...you dont need to drop em off.
If they'll pick 'em up whole, I'll gladly take $50 each! send them here first lol
Use a tougher bullet. What bullet is tearing them up if you don't mind me asking?
