Ive thought about going down to your neck of the woods hunting them. Just have not made the time to do it. Areas around me dont care for anything of them.
What to do with coyotes
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Take a selfie and go get another
That will bring the Bull Sharks or gaters in droves... I suggest that you don't go wading...!
Just keep collecting the tails where you are and take them with you when you get down to where ever it is that is giving out $15 a tail... Certainly go towards the fuel for the trip...
nakneker
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I use to give them to friend who was born about a hundred years too late, he lives for skinning them and anything else he traps or shoots, fleshing, stretching and taking them to sale never was my thing. My brain never could make the math work for the effort it took to do all that and I was happy to let him have them. I did tan 12 of the biggest prettiest yotes and had them hanging on the wall for years next to a dozen bobcats. I boxed them up when we built the new house.
Now it just depends where I am. I’ll usually leave them in the area I shot them but I’ll take sometime and move them to a discreet ditch or tree if I’m in an area that has a lot of people just so a person who doesn’t understand varmint control doesn’t happen on them and run their mouth. If I’m in middle of nowhere I’ll leave them lay.
Oddly enough we have a lot of coyotes around the house, they pass through the property nightly and every evening and morning we get two or three groups serenading us. I’ve come to respect them and enjoy them being around. When I want to call we drive a ways and hunt. One of the smartest most cunning creatures there is, I enjoy having them around. We don’t have livestock, if I did I’d have a different attitude. I might get some pack goats this summer though, if I do that will change things a bit but until then I give them some space.
Now it just depends where I am. I’ll usually leave them in the area I shot them but I’ll take sometime and move them to a discreet ditch or tree if I’m in an area that has a lot of people just so a person who doesn’t understand varmint control doesn’t happen on them and run their mouth. If I’m in middle of nowhere I’ll leave them lay.
Oddly enough we have a lot of coyotes around the house, they pass through the property nightly and every evening and morning we get two or three groups serenading us. I’ve come to respect them and enjoy them being around. When I want to call we drive a ways and hunt. One of the smartest most cunning creatures there is, I enjoy having them around. We don’t have livestock, if I did I’d have a different attitude. I might get some pack goats this summer though, if I do that will change things a bit but until then I give them some space.
Im not the caliber trapper Wyman is but a coyote is the smartest animal I ever tried to trap, notice I said tried to trap. Caught very few. paid me more if I tried to catch muskrats, mink, coons, beaver. When fur prices were good. Doug
STOMP442
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Southeastern arizona sportsman's club is only $30 bucks to join and I don't think they care where you are from if you are in Az. Save them up and bring em down for a check. Then go buy more bullets and powder.
I hate alligators. I don't mind if they congregate. That makes finding them easier. The sharks are usually following the few shrimp boats left in the area tearing the bags up to get at the shrimp.That will bring the Bull Sharks or gaters in droves... I suggest that you don't go wading...!
Nice to know, thanks. Yes in in AZ. Unfortunately im in the vally
Sniperhandle
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Utah pays $50.00 each for coyotes. You have to take an online class to get registered for it. I have never done it. But I know some people around here do.
I think If I remember right, You turn in the ears.
I think If I remember right, You turn in the ears.
Thats correct.
The last red fox I saw in Ohio had mange so bad it didn't look like it had much fur. I doubt it made it thru the winter.
Now that would be a redneck sport
Would that be like the Discus in the Olympic’s? Except you swing the dead coyote by the tail.
White Eagle
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If I go to all the trouble to hunt them I am going to keep the hide's
save them for when the prices rise
can't see leaving them on the ground but everyone has their own ideas
save them for when the prices rise
can't see leaving them on the ground but everyone has their own ideas
jds holler
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I'm pretty much with ya White Eagle. Back when I killed a lot of coyotes, both calling and trapping, my day job earned me around 7-10 bucks an hour. Coyote pelts sold for around 30-60 bucks each.
Wages on the jobs I did have tripled since then, and coyotes have gone the other direction.
It's hard for me to kill something that I used to cherish and labor over, and leave it lay for the buzzards. I understand folks wanting to enjoy the sport, and thin out the predator population, but I guess it prolly isn't gonna be me -- at least to the degree that I used to.
And maybe I'm a hypocrite. I kill and leave these little critters for the birds. And look at that luxurious pelt, not to mention the hind quarters.
jd
alf
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January 2025 fur forecast is still not looking good:
Otter, muskrat and wild mink should remain on par with last year, and there is no forecast for change on these species. The same applies to terrestrial species such as red fox, coyote or raccoon. Raccoons needs Russia to start climbing up, the coyote market is all but gone except for the very best Western coyotes, which still sell but at low levels, and red fox is completely stalled. I suspect that there are probably thousands of red fox pelts in cold storage all over, and probably just as many — or more — coyote pelts leftover from the era of parka-hood trim. These markets, racoon, fox and coyote, are probably two to three years away from any possible recovery to decent levels.
Otter, muskrat and wild mink should remain on par with last year, and there is no forecast for change on these species. The same applies to terrestrial species such as red fox, coyote or raccoon. Raccoons needs Russia to start climbing up, the coyote market is all but gone except for the very best Western coyotes, which still sell but at low levels, and red fox is completely stalled. I suspect that there are probably thousands of red fox pelts in cold storage all over, and probably just as many — or more — coyote pelts leftover from the era of parka-hood trim. These markets, racoon, fox and coyote, are probably two to three years away from any possible recovery to decent levels.
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