What to do with coyotes

[JB10]

I have taken many coyotes over the years and just leave them where they fall. I have no desire to keep the pelts and from what i hear they are not worth much anymore. Last year i was taking them to a woman i know who does taxidermy work. For some reason she wanted some of them. What do the rest of you do? Do you leave them, or remove them from that location and dump them somewhere else?

 

[GT Accuracy]

I have a local guy who calls me randomly for pelts. Fox, coyote, coon, etc. We have an understanding that he is getting them whole, as shot. What they do with them is at their discretion.

when he doesn't need any, i burn the ones with mange via a burn barrel. Ones without mange, I pitch in a ditch

 

[freebird22/250]

Buzzards have to eat too!

 

[Rocky Mt High]

I cut off and take the tails, leave the rest
for the other critters.

 

[BleedsBlue]

Drop em at the fertilizer plant

 

[Doug Casner]

I wouldnt skin one of the stinkin sobs for 20 bucks let alone10 or whatever there worth. Remember when they brought 40 or 50 bucks. Fake fur ruined the fur market. Id probably let him lay. Doug

 

[JB10]

Sounds like im doing like most people and let them lay. I do watch coyote hunting videos and everyone is dragging them out and taking them. While i can see doing that on a private area to stay good with a land owner, just wounded what they did after they left. I hunt public land only. If i shoot one where i think someone might see it like by a off road then ill drag it behind a bush. Most of my stands are a few hundred yards off the road anyway.

 

[5spd]

Depending on ranch, some get dumped in thier dead pile, others left.
Sometimes a taxidermist will want a nice one caught in snare or trap they mount n sell.

 

[DLT]

Depends on how picky the owner is…. The closest tree line is where most end up

 

[K22]

I recycle them back to nature.

Some of the ones I shot (summer / early fall) have some serious menage making the fur worthless not that I would salvage the fur anyway. One of the farms where I hunt the farmer's son use to salvage them years ago but lost interest.

 

[46and2]

I come back when the buzzards are on it and assassinate another yote that comes in to see what they're eating.

 

[DLT]

I come back when the buzzards are on it and assassinate another yote that comes in to see what they're eating.View attachment 1626328View attachment 1626329View attachment 1626330View attachment 1626331

God what did they get bit by ?

 

[jxb]

Some places pay bounty, so there's that. Otherwise these days there isn't a worthwhile fur market that I'm aware of for even a Montana prime, let alone others regardless of shape. Until that changes I just leave em and unless I'm in an area where they are causing impact I usually just let them go about their business. There's no shortage of sage goat habitat or ranchers needing them thinned out so I just focus on those locations when I'm in the mood.

In the early 80's Idaho I used to case, clean, sew, and stretch em for sale then later on take to places that would buy fresh kill drop offs for enough to pay for fuel but those days are long gone.

 

[46and2]

God what did they get bit by ?

185 Hybrid at 3280 30 Nosler,
200.20X at 3130 30 Nosler
and 140vld at 3290 264 Win Mag.

I was simply sitting quietly deer hunting...except our herd is very thin. Because of these mongrels.

 

[CJ6]

They stay as they lay.
The places I hunt are good with that.

 

[jds holler]

I fell in love with coyote hunting - and trapping, back when fur prices were good. Every coyote I called was like a hard earned trophy, and every one I trapped taught me a lot about coyotes in general. I got to love them as a quarry, and the money brought satisfaction even though it wasn't usually enough to pay for the gas, grub, and effort it took to get it.

So when the market disappeared, I slowed way down, quit trapping entirely and gradually quit doing it. Skinning, fleshing and stretching them doesn't seem worth it, and leaving them lay kinda leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I've got a half dozen of them hanging around that I never sold, and might try doing my own tanning sometime.

There seems to be plenty of guys around who want to kill them all, and they're welcome to try. I'm just not one of them. Matter of fact, most of the killing I used to do just doesn't seem as important to me as it used to. I guess that means that I'm turning into an old softy. jd

 

[jwv2001]

Coyotes are a commodity, as such the value of their hides fluctuate. I remember years ago when I used to hunt chukars in northern Nevada. Some years there were coyotes everywhere. Then the prices went sky high. There was one spot, at the bottom of every draw, there where skinned coyotes were stacked up like cordwood. Even roadkill was harvested for the fur.
For a number of years after, the chukars and jackrabbit numbers began to rise.
I live in central California, where the hides don't ever get plush, so I leave them where they lay.

 

[DLT]

185 Hybrid at 3280 30 Nosler,
200.20X at 3130 30 Nosler
and 140vld at 3290 264 Win Mag.

I was simply sitting quietly deer hunting...except our herd is very thin. Because of these mongrels.

Amen. I figured it was a cannon. I wasn’t off by much !

 

[Knotwild]

I threw them in the saltwater river and creek surrounding where I worked.

 

[STOMP442]

Our area sportsmans club pays 15 bucks a tail. Might be worth a check to see if your area has something like that.