Coyote sizes in the East

Like Iron Mike, coyotes in my area of east Tennessee normally run around 20-25 pounds but in late fall they put on a few extra pounds. Our males are usually larger/heavier than females, there are also a few non-typicals around. To date, my largest "certified" went a tad over 43 pounds. That ol’ C-dog was intent on catching a nice whitetail doe but snagged a 55 grain slug instead. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
Are average seems to be around 30# Class. But we get a couple in the 50# class every year. Seems like diffrent parts of the state the wieght verys some, if I get out in the strip mine areas the size runs smaller but the coyotes that come from the river bottoms and clear cut farm land run bigger. The biggiest one I have seen with my own eyes was trapped out of the ohio river bottoms and it tiped the scales at 62#.

Kee
 
Here's a link,

http://www.pressrepublican.com/outdoors/lib/2004/02292004out1.htm

Hope this helps on a explaination of the sizes of the northeastern coyote,I have talked to farmers and wood cutters who have been driven onto there machinery by not only packs but by singles and pairs, I have hunted and trapped and called all my life and have had these critters destroy brand new 4 coil montgomery traps!There is alot to do with the genetics just as with deer or any animal quality of feed and quanity does certainly count
 
The largest coyote I have personally traped in NY was close to 60 pounds. I have credible information that one that weighed 73 pounds was gunned in western NY after it killed his trapping dog.
 
Back in the late eighties I was told by a gentleman(who was a sheep farmer himself) that a group of farmers got to gether and hired a crew of so-called pros from out of state cause the state was not helping them.They lasted 3 days
and suddenly left with no explaination,a few
days latter they recieved a letter explaining that they had lost 4 of there dogs and well YOU have a problem---bye
From what he told me these were good sized hounds
along the lines of blue-tick and black and tan lines
 
Nikonut, thats not a photoshop job. Thats a domesticated coywolf that was killed by a deer hunter, it had been reported missing by the owner, spotted several times and showed casturation when it was examined. It is a real photo, not a real trophy though. I think it weighed 106 lbs? Can't remember exactly.. been there looked it up before though.

Average ones around here in southern Indiana are 25-30 pounds or so, some get larger. Of corse you hear stories of the 40+ but never see them.
 
JRB Hunter,

No... that is a definitely a Photoshop job because I'm the one that did the Photoshop job on it! The coywolf or whatever was enlarged approximately 25% from it's original size to prove the point of not believing everything you might see or read on the internet. As I posted here...Photoshop! The original photo was pulled from the net so who knows how big the fellow really was, but he certainly wasn't bigger than the deer when the pic was taken. Hope I haven't stepped on toes here and apologize to all if I have. Nikonut :eek:
 
thats definatly a photoshop job....if ever any doubt look closely at the object you suspect as doctored, it will usually be blurry......now the nigth ones would/are difficult to tell...
 


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