Dragging coyotes
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wolverines
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Same as some others have said, I'm not leaving them out in the landowner's field. I drag them to the truck. I have a "carcass pile" where I throw them out at my property. I've actually been able to recover a couple really nice fully in-tact skulls in the summer doing this.
Badbrass
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BOY, if you drag them and want the fur, do not drag them on the ground. You will break off the money fur; the long black guard hair is what most people are looking for. I had my wife make me a Drag Bag. It's a blue tarp on the bottom and a stretchy nylon mesh on the top with a drawstring long enough to use as a drag rope.
Now that the prices have dropped past the point where I feel I can't break even, I just cut the head off, put it in a plastic shopping bag, AKA a Walmart bag, and put it in my pack to take to my truck. If you bleach your own head, you can sell the skull for around 50 bucks. I hunt only on public land, so if I get 1 or 2 a day, that's a lot. I leave the remains for the eagles and hawks.
Now that the prices have dropped past the point where I feel I can't break even, I just cut the head off, put it in a plastic shopping bag, AKA a Walmart bag, and put it in my pack to take to my truck. If you bleach your own head, you can sell the skull for around 50 bucks. I hunt only on public land, so if I get 1 or 2 a day, that's a lot. I leave the remains for the eagles and hawks.
Even if I'm not doing a contest or saving fur, I put the coyotes body in tall grass or somewhere so thick the hawks have a hard time getting in there to eat on them. More so, so other humans don't see it and think "Oh man this is a great place to call coyotes." The fewer educated coyotes I have to deal with the better off I am. I had to learn to call coyotes in from getting out there and doing it. I'm not going to do someone elses scouting for them. If they want coyotes called in they have to earn them the same way I did.
K-22hornet.
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As they say, nothing goes to waste in Nature.
Something is going to eat the carcass.
Something is going to eat the carcass.
Pa. Mick
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Nothing eats them here but buzzards and maggots. Winter kills are still lying where l left them come spring
I know at least some badgers will eat coyote. I've seen it.
And I'm 90% sure some coyotes will eat coyote. Filled the cab of this truck with about a dozen coyotes once.
Came back a week later and barely a trace left. Just a little bit of hair on the ground, just a very few scattered bones. But otherwise, not much clue as to the big pile of dead coyotes that had been in the cab. But there was the heaviest, widest concentration of coyote crap I've ever seen in my life, 360 degrees around that truck. Crazy amount of coyote chit.
Have seen other indications of coyote eating coyote. But never have seen definitive proof. I'd bet coyotes do eat coyote. Lord knows I've seen them eat nastier.
What's kind of wild, is how fast small birds will pick a coyote clean. They don't carry them away though. This took less than a week.
Large birds will definitely carry them away in pieces though. Leave a lot of hair on the ground when they do. From picking at them in place to get them parted out. One of the reasons that truck situation above seemed like coyotes were the culprits. Hardly even any hair on the ground or in the cab.
I've left a lot of piles of dead coyotes and came back. Never any whole coyotes left and usually not even any bones. Like I say, can tell when it was large birds, lots of hair on the ground, but nothing else.
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And I'm 90% sure some coyotes will eat coyote. Filled the cab of this truck with about a dozen coyotes once.
Came back a week later and barely a trace left. Just a little bit of hair on the ground, just a very few scattered bones. But otherwise, not much clue as to the big pile of dead coyotes that had been in the cab. But there was the heaviest, widest concentration of coyote crap I've ever seen in my life, 360 degrees around that truck. Crazy amount of coyote chit.
Have seen other indications of coyote eating coyote. But never have seen definitive proof. I'd bet coyotes do eat coyote. Lord knows I've seen them eat nastier.
What's kind of wild, is how fast small birds will pick a coyote clean. They don't carry them away though. This took less than a week.
Large birds will definitely carry them away in pieces though. Leave a lot of hair on the ground when they do. From picking at them in place to get them parted out. One of the reasons that truck situation above seemed like coyotes were the culprits. Hardly even any hair on the ground or in the cab.
I've left a lot of piles of dead coyotes and came back. Never any whole coyotes left and usually not even any bones. Like I say, can tell when it was large birds, lots of hair on the ground, but nothing else.
- DAA
spotstalkshoot
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3 or more, I'm dragging. Good fur, no snow I will carry one or 2. Unworked soybean ground is the worst for dragging, even with some snow cover. Have an old farmhouse basement where I can ditch unusable critters.
We have a dump on the ranches I hunt and the only thing I've seen eating on dead coyotes is birds, and it doesn't take them long to find one; never seen evidence of coyotes eating their own, but I would imagine they do on occasion.
FWIW, here's what AI has to say about it.
FWIW, here's what AI has to say about it.
Yes, coyotes can eat other coyotes, but this behavior is uncommon and usually occurs under specific circumstances such as scavenging, starvation, or territorial conflict.
Coyotes are highly adaptable omnivores that primarily feed on small mammals, birds, insects, fruits, and carrion, but they can occasionally turn to cannibalism when conditions demand itscienceinsights.org. Most often, this involves scavenging the carcass of a coyote that has already died from disease, vehicle collisions, or other causes, rather than actively hunting and killing another coyote
Active killing of another coyote is rarer but has been documented, typically in territorial disputes. Male coyotes defending their home range may attack intruding coyotes, and in some cases, the aggressor or nearby coyotes may feed on the remains
Cannibalism in coyotes is not unique; similar behaviors are observed in wolves, which may kill and occasionally consume other wolves during territorial conflicts
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Dead Down Wind
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We just killed 29 in 4 1/2 days, 75 degrees which is about 50 degrees warmer than I like.
All 25 were left within a foot of where they dropped and we put the rest in a pile away from the ranch.
We put some on a Coyote hanger I made out of some of my graphite hockey sticks.
All 25 were left within a foot of where they dropped and we put the rest in a pile away from the ranch.
We put some on a Coyote hanger I made out of some of my graphite hockey sticks.
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Sounds like a good time was had--congrats.
spotstalkshoot
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2 each 3 guys 5 days 30 coyote limit for Colorado, plan executed well.
Dead Down Wind
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Great math;-)
Every ranch I hunt is private and I am an “Agent” of the land per the landowner granting me permission.
I spoke with a Colorado Parks and Wildlife Agent and he in fact clarified the 2 Coyote limit per day is for “Public” land, why would I want to hunt public land when I have access and permission to more than 150 private ranches in Colorado and Nebraska.
Now I hear the great Governor of our state is trying to outlaw Electronic E-callers!!!
They can SUCK it!
K-22hornet.
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I was hunting in -13 temps one day in January, and shot the first coyote within 300yds of the truck. I left her there, figuring I'll pick her up on the return trip. A few hours later, as I get close to this coyote, a Golden Eagle lifts off the carcass. The eagle had ripped about a 6" hole in the hide on the ribs, and was eating some rib meat.
I left that coyote to the eagle.
The next time I was on that property, it was early March, and all that was left was a hair pile.
Speaking of our Colorado Governor, he's term limited and this is his last term and it seems like he is trying to do the most damage to hunters and gun owners that he can before his time is up.
I left that coyote to the eagle.
The next time I was on that property, it was early March, and all that was left was a hair pile.
Speaking of our Colorado Governor, he's term limited and this is his last term and it seems like he is trying to do the most damage to hunters and gun owners that he can before his time is up.
alf
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I shot one in Montana one year & left it. A couple days later I was hunting the same bottom & spooked a golden off the carcass. A couple days later I check on it, and absolutely everything was gone, meat, bones, hide. The odd thing was the head was still there like someone cut it clean off, untouched.
One I killed a couple weeks ago, I went back the next morning to move it elsewhere, and there were 8 buzzards in the air & around the carcass, but they had to keep their distance as a bald eagle had claimed the spoils.
One I killed a couple weeks ago, I went back the next morning to move it elsewhere, and there were 8 buzzards in the air & around the carcass, but they had to keep their distance as a bald eagle had claimed the spoils.
This is exactly how I do it!