Big boy down last night.

[ohlongarm]

At sunset dropped him 100 yards 17 hornet, retrieved this am, frozen solid to the ground at -14, they are moving big time.
Sun was setting coyote dropped next to log. The big boy is the coyote I'm a little man at 6"1 185lbs.

 

[bobm]

Man, that's gotta be a wolf. Nice harvest.

 

[CaptainMal]

Could you use it for bait to get more?

Nice shooten'.

 

[Yote Hunter]

Thats a bigan. 17 Hornet for that big dog is definitely not overkill. Lol. As far as using dead coyotes for a bait, I have never ever seen them feed on their own.

 

[ohlongarm]

Could you use it for bait to get more?

Nice shooten'.

I'll share my experiences about what you've asked, in all the years of hunting, calling, trapping, etc., I personally have never seen a coyote eat on another's carcass. Now it probably happens, my carcasses are usually gone in days from the raptors, and crows. I've seen tracks in the snow where they investigated but never ate their own. i'd like to hear others experiences. That pictured one was taken by the buckskinner guy for the fur and skull, $20 to me he picks them up.

 

[snert]

The first coyote I shot (with a 357 Herrett TC) went down hard to a 180 grain SSP. About an hour later a blond coyote showed up sneaking in. I was just getting ready to drop the hammer when he hit the scent stream of his recently DRT partner. An Atlas Booster could not have moved him faster out of sight. One whiff and POOF, gone.

 

[3Sigma]

Nice dog. Those eastern 'yokes get big.

Supposedly they are only N of the MO River here. I think they are all the way to the AR River as some round here stand a s tall as my 80 lbs Labrador retriever.

 

[Ranger188]

The ones I shoot around my house, I just throw on the edge of
the corn fields.
I check on them once in awhile and you'll see some other tracks
and maybe a small bite, but never seen a whole carcass eaten.
Just my area.

 

[WyleWD]

I'll share my experiences about what you've asked, in all the years of hunting, calling, trapping, etc., I personally have never seen a coyote eat on another's carcass. Now it probably happens,

Around 15 years ago when yotes were really thick around here I saw evidence quite a few times that the coyotes had cleaned up on another's carcass. Over the course of a few years myself and a trapper friend of mine both noticed this. And comparing notes on it one day we both seen the same things. Never saw it in late fall or winter, never on a mange infected coyote. From May to September-early October was when the cannibalism occurred. Feeding the litter or something.... I don't know. Odd, but coyotes are on the unpredictable side. JME. WD