What do you do with coyotes?

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Coyote hunting looks like it would be a lot of fun, especially since they cause problems for the local farmers.

Just out of curiosity, what do you do with them after? I imagine people keep the pelts... However, it looks like some of you take 20-30+ in a season.

What do you do with all the pelts? Are you generally able to sell them? Do you get any use out of the rest of the coyote, or do you leave it for scavengers to clean up after skinning?
 
Depends where you are. Most of the western coyotes sell well at auction but currently the eastern coyotes arent selling at all, making them "not worth skinning" for me. Just predator control.
 
Most of them stink and have crappy pelts. At least the half dozen or so I have shot were.

I skinned out 2 tails, washed them and put the borax to them for a few weeks. They hang in the hunt camp :)

I have one I shot a few weeks back that I left for the bugs to cleanup. I'm planning on bleaching the skull with peroxide cream and putting it on a chunk of hardwood in the living room (shhh! don't tell my wife, it's a surprise :D ).

The rest are left there. If I shoot them in a crop field, I drag them off to the fence line so it doesn't cause issues with the farm equipment.

We have standing orders from the land owners (farmers) to kill with extreme prejudice every songdog we see as our rental fee for using the place for deer and turkey hunts.
 
Marinate in beer for a day then use your favourite BBQ sauce................:D

I'm kidding. I've heard of people eating them. Not something I'd try.

I only shoot them in the winter and occassionally have one tanned and the skull bleached.
Most of the time I give them to a trapper friend of mine.
 
Pile them up, then have more fun plinking at the crows and scavengers...Then pile up the scavengers and bait more coyotes...fun for hours...:D
 
So apparently they get less use than I thought. Good to know - someday I want to start chasing them, but I was curious what you all do with them.

Would a .22 be suitable for coyote, or would I want something bigger? I know with good shot placement, a .22 can take down an elephant. But on a practical basis, would a .22 do it?
 
FlyingHigh said:
do you have to skin them before leaving them? or can you just dump them, out of sight out of mind kind of thing?

i've always wanted to give coyote hunting a try. :)
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I would never skin an eastern coyote. Stinking vermin. Some drag them in the bush, some just leave them where they drop. Now, if I happened to shoot a nice colored wolf, I'd skin it out, or have it mounted...
 
Caydel said:
Would a .22 be suitable for coyote, or would I want something bigger? I know with good shot placement, a .22 can take down an elephant. But on a practical basis, would a .22 do it?
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A .22 is to light for any pratical kill...A shotgun with the right load or a center fire such as a .223 or 22.250, would be a much better and responsible choice..
 
are we talking what the law says or what actually gets done whats being discussed in this thread is illegal. The law states you must pelt fur baring animals you can not let the pelt of a fur baring animal spoil. The only exception to the rule is if the pelt is worthless and not worthless from not selling at auction because even if you get .01 it has a value according to the MNR only mange and sever pelt damage make the pelt worthless.

I brought this up in the fall and was flamed to death for saying I leave yotes in the bush or toss them on the bait pile.
 
If I recall correctly, you aren't required to harvest the pelts of coyotes in Alberta.

Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong. (Before it ends up costing me money! :) )
 
I'm speaking about Ontario but unless in the regulations it says that Coyotes in your area are classed as Vermin then I imagine you have to pelt them.

I inquired to the MNR about this one office told me to shoot as many as I can and they could care less what I did with them(bancroft)......I then got a hold of my local CO who is a complete dink likely a closet anti and he said all yotes must be pelted unless they have mange.....Seeing as I have no avenue to sell the pelts and I really don't want to pelt a stink ass coyote for $.05 I didn't even bother hunting them this year. Seems in Ontario they like to make a ton of regulations to kill any fun you may be able to have hunting.

I told my CO I was hunting a farm that was having problems with yotes trying to take freshly dropped calves so I would be shooting them as vermin and he said If I have a small games license then I'm a hunter and I must not let the pelt spoil. Apparently only Farmers can shoot them as vermin and if your a farmer who also has a small game tag them you got to pelt them to......I know its stupid but this CO's a dink and he will nail you with everything he can just to prove a point definitely got picked on in school me thinks.......so to avoid unwanted stress I just don't bother hunting them anymore.
 
srt4u2nv said:
are we talking what the law says or what actually gets done whats being discussed in this thread is illegal. The law states you must pelt fur baring animals you can not let the pelt of a fur baring animal spoil.
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That is true if you are hunting. But if are culling predators on your own property or are a registered agent you don't have to live within the hunting regulations.
 
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