Predator hunting. What to do afterwards?

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My uncle has a coyote problem, and asked me if I could help eradicate the pack. I have a vague idea of what to do, call them in, etc. It'll be a learning experience. My question is, what do I do after I kill the coyote? I know some save the pelts, but what of the carcass? Coyote meat doesn't seem that appetising, and I don't want to leave the carcass on his property for other predators(bears and apparently lynx, though I've never seen them) For you predator hunters out there, what do you do with the dead dog?
 
The carcass is inedible - to humans. But it is bait for the next coyote and the next one and the next one.

Some people around one rural community near Ottawa have complained that the reason they have so many coyotes is because the city uses a particular municipal yard to dump roadkill deer. They might be on to something.
 
I've found that if I have a particularly bad 'yote infestation, shooting one or two and leaving them to 'ripen' in an open spot near where the problem has been tends to keep the other coyotes away. Lots of crows, sure - but I don't see any 'yotes around that neck of the woods for the remainder of that year.

Your mileage may vary, of course - but that's worked for me.

Disposing of the carcass somewhere 'out of the way' is just fine.

-M
 
Careful with the Pelts.....

from the ontario regs: (Im only guessing you're in Ontario, if not then I dont' know if this applies) Look up local Regulations regarding Furbearing animal Pelts.


Game Wildlife and Parts
[FONT=Giovanni Book,Giovanni Book][FONT=Giovanni Book,Giovanni Book]You may not let the flesh of any harvested game wildlife (see [/FONT]
[FONT=Giovanni Book,Giovanni Book]Definitions, page 78) which is suitable for food be destroyed, [/FONT]
[FONT=Giovanni Book,Giovanni Book]spoiled or abandoned. This includes black bear. A hunter who kills a furbearing mammal shall not abandon the pelt or [/FONT]
[FONT=Giovanni Book,Giovanni Book]permit the pelt to be spoiled or destroyed. [/FONT]

[FONT=Giovanni Book,Giovanni Book]FURBEARING MAMMALS: [/FONT]
[FONT=Giovanni Book,Giovanni Book][FONT=Giovanni Book,Giovanni Book][FONT=Giovanni Book,Giovanni Book]Badger, beaver, bobcat, coyote, fisher, arctic fox, gray fox, red fox (all phases), lynx, marten, mink, muskrat, opossum, otter, raccoon, red squirrel, striped skunk, weasel (least, long-tailed and short-tailed), wolf, wolverine and polar bear. [/FONT]
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This is right, Ontario has some of the stupidest laws on Earth, including the hunting regs as above.

In Alberta, there exists no such requirement - since Coyotes are vermin.

Check your local laws.

-M
 
Pathfinder said:
Careful with the Pelts.....

from the ontario regs: (Im only guessing you're in Ontario, if not then I dont' know if this applies) Look up local Regulations regarding Furbearing animal Pelts.


Game Wildlife and Parts
[FONT=Giovanni Book,Giovanni Book][FONT=Giovanni Book,Giovanni Book]You may not let the flesh of any harvested game wildlife (see [/FONT]
[FONT=Giovanni Book,Giovanni Book]Definitions, page 78) which is suitable for food be destroyed, [/FONT]
[FONT=Giovanni Book,Giovanni Book]spoiled or abandoned. This includes black bear. A hunter who kills a furbearing mammal shall not abandon the pelt or [/FONT]
[FONT=Giovanni Book,Giovanni Book]permit the pelt to be spoiled or destroyed. [/FONT]

[FONT=Giovanni Book,Giovanni Book]FURBEARING MAMMALS: [/FONT]
[FONT=Giovanni Book,Giovanni Book][FONT=Giovanni Book,Giovanni Book][FONT=Giovanni Book,Giovanni Book]Badger, beaver, bobcat, coyote, fisher, arctic fox, gray fox, red fox (all phases), lynx, marten, mink, muskrat, opossum, otter, raccoon, red squirrel, striped skunk, weasel (least, long-tailed and short-tailed), wolf, wolverine and polar bear. [/FONT]
[/FONT][/FONT][/FONT]
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what if its mangy as ####? or its fur is all rubbed from breeding? Am I suppost to skin this thing and take it to my fur buyer? he'd laugh in my face and tell me to get that thing away from him. Who the hell is going to tan a mangy coyote fur so you can hang it on the wall? I don't care what the regs say, I'm tossing it in the bush if its not worth skinning.
 
DVXDUDE said:
what if its mangy as f**k? or its fur is all rubbed from breeding? Am I suppost to skin this thing and take it to my fur buyer? he'd laugh in my face and tell me to get that thing away from him. Who the hell is going to tan a mangy coyote fur so you can hang it on the wall? I don't care what the regs say, I'm tossing it in the bush if its not worth skinning.
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*cough* it's all legal 'til you get caught.

I won't tell if you don't. ;)

-M
 
the game wardens are pricks about it to. I was on the side of the road talking to the land owner while I was loading a coyote in the back of my truck. The game waden stops, see's the coyote and says "what are you going to do with it" I said skin it and get it tanned. He took all my info down and said he was going to stop in to my house within the next couple of days to take a look at the skinned pelt. Like he didn't believe me or something. I found it kind of odd. He didnt ask to see my gun or licenses. Just wanted my address and name.

he never did show up that I know of.....lol
 
Sec 134 Fish & Wildlife Conservation Act,
A hunter who is licenced or authorized to kill a furbearing mammal is exempt from subsection 36(3) of the act and may abandon a pelt or permit a pelt to be spoiled or destroyed if the pelt is of no commercial value. O. Reg 655/98.
Have fun and you may even find someone that likes to eat them.
 
tracker said:
Sec 134 Fish & Wildlife Conservation Act,
A hunter who is licenced or authorized to kill a furbearing mammal is exempt from subsection 36(3) of the act and may abandon a pelt or permit a pelt to be spoiled or destroyed if the pelt is of no commercial value. O. Reg 655/98.
Have fun and you may even find someone that likes to eat them.
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Now there was the common sense I was looking for. :)
 
Pfinder, I got that from the horses mouth when I questioned MNR about the value of the furs in the off season and with manage since yotes are open all year down here.
Hows the snow and ice. We are coming up end of may to open camp.
 
I am from Ontario, and are laws are stupid. I was planning on taking the pelts anyways. Hey, it's my coyote, I might as well make some use out of it. But what of those who hunt coyote's alot? That's alot of pelts, and I doubt they sell them and/or keep them all. Maybe selling pelts is easy. I dont know, I'm ignorant on the subject. Couldn't you just take the pelt, then throw it in your trash bag? Seems perfectly legal.
 
tracker said:
Pfinder, I got that from the horses mouth when I questioned MNR about the value of the furs in the off season and with manage since yotes are open all year down here.
Hows the snow and ice. We are coming up end of may to open camp.
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It was 29 C today....cant see snow or ice anywhere....mind you I was drilling holes in 18" of ice last weekend and got 2-3" of snow Sunday morning.

Unususal spring this year....hopefully not too dry this summer.
 
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