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My neighbor's dad snared a 67 pound coyote last night!

Let me stop the nay sayers right now ... Yes it was weighed on a State certified scale!

I should have pics by tomorrow night!

YMH&OS, :redthumb:
Chuck
 
That IS a big coyote....and the first one I ever saw with a leather collar and a metal tag that had "LASSIE" written on it! :what: :crackup: :crackup:

kidding ::...looking forward to seeing the pictures. Most of ones here in Georgia rarely hit 50 lbs.
 
My neighbor's dad snared a 67 pound coyote last night!

Let me stop the nay sayers right now ... Yes it was weighed on a State certified scale!

I should have pics by tomorrow night!

YMH&OS, :redthumb:
Chuck

Here you go...

wiley.gif
 
Yea Wiley but was that on a certified scale? :blah: Huh? :blah: Huh? :blah:


YMH&OS,
Chuck
 
That's a big one, bet you don't have trouble with stray cats around there or rabbits and squirrels! :crackup: :thumbsup: :redthumb:
 
That's a big one, bet you don't have trouble with stray cats around there or rabbits and squirrels! :crackup: :thumbsup: :redthumb:


Not to mention the Deer;
ya eat good you put on weight. :)

Woody
 
There is a coyote in our area that is easily as big as my golden retrievers.First time I saw it I thought it was a german shepard running loose but it is a coyote for sure.
 
Now your sure he didn't snag, "CoyoteJoe" (from the Forum here), wonderin' along that WV/Ohio boarder now??? :haha: :haha: :haha:

Yes, that is a big coyote! :thumbsup:
 
He's going to sale the hide along with several others they've trapped and snared.

He made a big mistake when he weighed it they explained to me today that the scales were set to weigh propane gas tanks. It actually weighed 55 pounds still a big yote but somehow not as exciting!

I hate to have to correct myself but I guess anybody can make a mistake. He works part-time at the hardware store where he weighed it. I guess he forgot about the weight to make up for an empty tank.

YMH&OS :redthumb:
Chuck
 
Plenty of coyotes that big around our part of southern Ontario, generally considerably bigger than their Prairie ancestors. The general view seems to be that they mostly arrived here from the west within the last century, as wolves were hunted out and pushed north by land clearance (and coyotes are well adapted to farmland and bush, wolves not so much). But some older farmers here I've spoken to think there must have been interbreeding to produce the big coyotes, which they continue to call brush wolves. Maybe they're wrong but the typical coyote I see around here looks as big as our English Shepherds, 50-60 pounds or so.
 
That's a big one, bet you don't have trouble with stray cats around there or rabbits and squirrels! :crackup: :thumbsup: :redthumb:

Better watch yur lap dogs and smaller curs too. I've read them coyotes breed in january and the males do all they can to eliminate other canis types in the area when the litter comes. They've established themselves in the northwest part of Jersey and they ain't bashful! ....Longshot
 
A 55 pound coyote is no little critter for sure. Out here, 35 to 45 is the norm... It should make a fine hat and shoulder cape! :thumbsup:
 
we have too many 'yotes' in my area. We have a chicken coup that provides fresh eggs and garden fertilizer. It also provides a 'yote' about once a year. Those critters are tough, I shot one that tore a hole in the wire with a 12ga. slug and that thing still got away. Guts dragging and all. If he made it back to the pack he was supper.

Question, what is a hide worth,? a local trapper told me they were not worth skinning. I always skin the face and trade to a local pow-wow vender?
Smokeblower
 
It depends on the area you live in and how much damage was done to the hide if shot. One entry hole gets a few dollars more then an entry and exit hole out here.

Also, the local buyer that comes through does not like a person to skin out the coyote. He prefers to buy it intact, so you need a freezer large enough to store them if you want to make any money at it. I keep meat in my freezer, not fur, so I only take a coyote if I'm out on the deer hunt and one should pass by within range.

I do this to help the land owner out in return for letting me hunt his property. I'll give up a deer stand to drop a coyote, it's only good manners...

It ain't like the old days hunting Coyotes for bounty money down in Kansas.

Back in the mid '80's a good coyote fur could net as much as 60 to 90 dollars, depending on color and thickness of the fur... That would have been a good time to make money also, but that came after the bounty was lifted, maybe a decade earlier, and those kind of prices didn't last long...

Today, maybe, $10.00 to $15.00, maybe $20.00 dollars, just depends on the buyer, the quality of the hide, and your location, and how good of a haggler you are... :haha: They can also go for alot less too!
 
Today, maybe, $10.00 to $15.00, maybe $20.00 dollars, just depends on the buyer, the quality of the hide, and your location, and how good of a haggler you are... :haha: They can also go for alot less too!

I once made a 'Yote fur hat, it's didn't keep me that warm though, every time I passed a tree, the side flap raised... :crackup: :crackup: :crackup:
 
ACcording to FF&G here are the expected market prices for some furs :

Coon averaged $8.50 and topped at $20 for xxl.
Mink averaged $10 and topped $15 or large males
Beaver averaged $15 and topped $25 for super blankets
Coyote average $14-18
RedFox average $12-18
GrayFox adverage $8-14
Muskrats- average $1.75-$2.50

Coyotes have drop 25% from the past two years in priceing.

Another interesting fact is:
Number of animals used to make an average-length fur coat:
Badger 20
Beaver 15
Bobcat 15
Chinchilla 100
Coyote 16
Ermine (weasel) 125
Lynx 11
Marten 40
Mink 60
Muskrat 50
Otter 15
Rabbit 30
Raccoon 30
Red Fox 18
Sable 40
Silver Fox 11


Woody
 
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