2 in the hands is better than.....

[5spd]

Better than none!
Popped these guys last weekend mowing the tall grasses for shooting lanes and knocking down other tougher stuff with a drag I made out there for the truck.
I had finished up and was taking a rest and after about 45 min the small coyote peeked through an area of that stuff I had knocked down.
I think it was wanting mice that were now easier to get at.
The bigger coyote did the same about 20 min after than.
What the heck were they thinking with me sitting by that shed in the back ground, truck could not be missed. Looked out as I was about to head home and she was jumping on mice and even stuck her nose on the small one.
I have a coyote pile in this spot w/9 or so laid out & all have been eaten on & torn up by other coyote.
Right spot & right timing even with all the noise & dust & my scent on everything...they just keep on coming in for my lead diet.
They were both dumped w/my truck rig which is a MMR AR15, .223, my 55g vmax load suppressed of course.
137 yards, chip shots.

 

[boltfluter]

In over 25 yrs. of coyote hunting I have never seen a coyote eat another coyote. Most likely magpies and ravens.

Paul

www.boltfluting.com

 

[nakneker]

Nice job, it's always fun to bust a yote.

 

[WyleWD]

In over 25 yrs. of coyote hunting I have never seen a coyote eat another coyote. Most likely magpies and ravens.

Paul

www.boltfluting.com

5spd is correct in that coyotes will eat other coyotes. Seen evidence to that effect multiple times.

Great story 5spd and thanks for the pictures. WD

 

[40X Guy]

Nice job 5spd!

Frank

 

[Bangs OH]

Re. coyotes eating their own: Last summer I shot one in a high beanfied. Couldn't find it and already running late for an appointment; didn't make it back to the site for two more days. Finally found what was left: a pile of fur, a small piece of jawbone and a few tail vertebrae; the carcass was picked clean (got some pics...somewhere). No doubt buzzards and maggots did final cleanup, but the farmer working nearby told me he witnessed what looked like young coyotes in a feeding frenzy later in the day where he saw me shoot; he even took potshots at them himself.
Hard times. The coyotes have killed almost every living thing around here, including most of "my" groundhogs. That these filthy opportunists have turned cannibal is not surprising, probably always were....
Kill 'em all.

 

[5spd]

Yup, Yup coyotes, p-dogs, rats, will eat the other dead ones if there is anything left.
I have watched coyotes come into nice smelly dead cow piles and go right to the coyote pile and start ripping apart any fresh one Ive dumped there. I have parts of them dragged all around the dead cow piles.
Ive shot coyotes chomping over other dead ones them pretty often on a hand full of ranches.
I always think why do they eat them vs a nice chunk out of a cow instead.
Birds of prey don't carry a rib cage or small coyote 50 yards from a deadpile, they will pick them clean and leave a nice skeleton. I have coyote parts drug all over in the tall grasses.
1st part they want is the internals from other dead coyotes.

 

[MrMajestic]

Good stuff 5! Kill'um all!

 

[TheOtherZilla]

Good job.. Sometimes the yotes just go brain dead