Saturday morning big male coyote

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Got to the farm and was setup by 1st light. Started off with a few howls from my hand calls and then went to dying rabbit with the ecaller.
About 12 minutes in, I spot a coyote on the snow part of the field about 400 yds out..... I loose sight of it as it gets off the snow portion of the field. (Hard to see them in the low light conditions off the snow). About 2 minutes later I spot not 1 but 2 coyotes come around the rise in the field and about 150 yds out. They are coming from left to right. 1 coyote continues walking straight into the bush on my right. The other started to follow as well so I let out a loud "WOLF" sound causing him to stop for the 150 yd shot putting him down in his tracks. Played pup distress, the other popped out about 400 yds away but wouldn't come any closer. Too far a shot for my abilities. 1 is better than none :)
Coyote is in great shape with a great hide that will get tanned.

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I am using a savage axis .223 that is shooting a 55gr Hornady bullet hand loads topped with a Bushnell 3x9.
I think it is 7 kills and about the same for misses. :(
This coyote will be weight on Monday as I plan on taking it in to work. We have an aboriginal course so the students will be able to watch the skinning, then tanning process.
As for weight, my guess is 45lbs....Official weight to come Monday :)
Thanks for all the great comments
 
tonykimatpl said:
Can you eat coyotes? Just curious as there's no tag requirement or bag limit for these in Ontario and I don't just wanna be shooting them if there's no meat to harvest.
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I am sure they are edible since Steve Rinella ate it on his show but to each of their own this is too hardcore for me since I have many better options, guess it may be different in a survival situation lol.

I hunt them hoping to keep their population down thus increase the chance of fawn's survival rate plus many hunters like me gain permission to hunt private properties by helping landowners / farmers to keep their livestock safe by means of predator control.

 
tonykimatpl said:
just curious as there's no tag requirement or bag limit for these in Ontario and I don't just wanna be shooting them if there's no meat to harvest.
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Be careful as this is incorrect in that most of the province has wolf/coyote tags limited to 2 tags per calendar year. If one looks at the Ontario hunting regs (page 84 of the 2022 regs) - the requirement for wolf / coyote tags applies to MOST WMUs from central Ontario and all of northern Ontario.
 
Chas said:
Be careful as this is incorrect in that most of the province has wolf/coyote tags limited to 2 tags per calendar year. If one looks at the Ontario hunting regs (page 84 of the 2022 regs) - the requirement for wolf / coyote tags applies to MOST WMUs from central Ontario and all of northern Ontario.
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Thanks for the clarification. Some chap told me on another thread that no tags are required. But you're right, just looked it up.
 
fratri said:
I am using a savage axis .223 that is shooting a 55gr Hornady bullet hand loads topped with a Bushnell 3x9.
I think it is 7 kills and about the same for misses. :(
This coyote will be weight on Monday as I plan on taking it in to work. We have an aboriginal course so the students will be able to watch the skinning, then tanning process.
As for weight, my guess is 45lbs....Official weight to come Monday :)
Thanks for all the great comments
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Did not have a scale at work today but still thinking around 45lbs?
 
Most all of southern Ontario, no tags, no limit, open all year for coyotes. The tag requirements are for northern Ontario so we are not killing wolves indiscriminately. Southern Ontario encompasses most all areas south of about Barrie Ontario.
You should refer to the Ontario hunting regulations for your specific WMU to be certain.

We don’t eat coyotes ( although I guess you could…yuck) we hunt them for fur and/or to attempt to help control numbers and predator control in farm country.
 
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