Coyote pelt question (re-post from 6.5 area)

[reed1911]

Also posted in the 6.5 section


I thought I would address this in a separate thread since it is only somewhat related to the thread that caught my interest to ask this question.

Who actually sell their coyote pelts? Is it really worth it to collect and tan them? We have a lot here in central OK but I just leave them where they lie to act as bait for the hogs and other coyote.

I'm just curious to know how many folks are both doing it as well as is there money to be made at it?

If there is, I'll grab the ones I shoot and tell anyone that is here in the area when I have them, you can take them. I don't have a use for them at all. Obviously there is a time factor involved as I'm not going to skin them, just grab the carcass.

All mine I shoot with a .17 30g or 32g soft point or .14 cal 17.5g so there is no exit hole just a small entrance hole.

 

[MTSLW]

I keep a few of the nicer ones every year. But we have about the prettiest coyotes you can find up here in MT. Prime season is mid Nov through Jan 1.
4-5 years ago a prime stretched and dried pelt was going for $100.
Last year nobody was buying them.

 

[Schippergreg]

Don’t give them to anyone you like. Average coyotes have virtually no value, after skinning and fleshing you’d be lucky to give them away.

 

[Downhill]

FandT Post sells really nice pelts that are tanned to clothing grade, it would be hard to beat their prices.

 

[xswanted]

Also posted in the 6.5 section


I thought I would address this in a separate thread since it is only somewhat related to the thread that caught my interest to ask this question.

Who actually sell their coyote pelts? Is it really worth it to collect and tan them? We have a lot here in central OK but I just leave them where they lie to act as bait for the hogs and other coyote.

I'm just curious to know how many folks are both doing it as well as is there money to be made at it?

If there is, I'll grab the ones I shoot and tell anyone that is here in the area when I have them, you can take them. I don't have a use for them at all. Obviously there is a time factor involved as I'm not going to skin them, just grab the carcass.

All mine I shoot with a .17 30g or 32g soft point or .14 cal 17.5g so there is no exit hole just a small entrance hole.

I used to skin and sell them. Up to a few years go even $100 or more per pelt wasn’t out of the norm for nice, non beat to hell coyotes.

The last few years the bottom fell out do the fur market and as others have said, it’s almost impossible to give them away now.

If a guy wanted to get enough to make a blanket or jacket or something along those lines, now would be the time.

Unfortunately most of what I’ve shot the past three years, which is many less per year than when prices were high, are enjoying their eternity where they fell.

 

[5spd]

Market dropped out 4 years or so back for coyote, only collect bounty these days, dump bodies in carcass piles.

 

[muleystalker]

The market will be back as soon as the Russia/Ukraine war ends.

 

[boltfluter]

The market will be back as soon as the Russia/Ukraine war ends.

We can only hope. It was always pleasing looking at a nice selection of coyote hides just before I shipped them to auction. Good times.
Paul