Coyotes - can you tell male / female from a distance?

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dave3006

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I think this may be a dumb question. Is there a way to tell if the coyote you are going to shoot is a male or female from a distance? It would be nice to hunt right now without risking hitting a female that has pups in the den.
 
So you kill the male. That would leave the female to feed, hunt for, and raise the pups by herself. Their outlook for survival would be slim.
 
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dave the flip side would be, you want to hunt so go and don't shoot at all, learn from watching the coyotes and while you are out, do a little scouting as well.

I have been calling some this week without a gun, I have really enjoyed it. Called three thus far, pair on Thursday and a single yesturday.

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Scott
 
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So you kill the male. That would leave the female to feed, hunt for, and raise the pups by herself. Their outlook for survival would be slim.



Actually, there outlook on survival isn't that slim at all. While the pair shares in the raising of pups and defending territory, if the male is killed the female can still raise pups til' maturity. Naturally this will take it's toll on the mother, but they still have a greater chance of surviving than dying.
 
I was thinking one day, and what if during the offseason you set up a bunch of dead rabbits, say 3-4 of them, about 50 yards away, then do a rabbit in distress. Once they come in, they will find food, and then in the long run when you are hunting them won't they respond better to rabbit in distress? just a thought, might work, who knows?
 
I don't think a coyote would believe 3 or 4 dead rabbits nice and neat in a row unless the rabbits were part of the Jim Jones massacre that took place in Africa in the early 80's i think and the rabbits somehow got some of the poisoned punch that Jones made everyone drink
 
Dave,

The answer to your question, is guesswork. Experience looking @ alot of coyotes, helps in answering your question. Without looking betwixt their legs. I look @ their physical features, when guessing.

Circa; 1971, I killed a 47lb female[what a brute]. I was convinced she was a male initially. She whooped the tar out of two of our toughest dogs [1 on 1] in two consecative fights. When I rolled her on her back, she was all female.
 
I agree with Kirby, you'd have to look at their features and take your best guess. Here's a pair that we called up this year. Picture isn't real clear, as it was a screen shot from captured video. I guessed that the one of the left was a male and the other a female, but purely speculation based on features...

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I lip squeaked one in a couple years ago, while scouting for turkeys. She came within 5-6 yards, at which I could see that she had pups nursing, by the sight of her bags hanging. So, my suggestion, call them in close.

Tony
 
Tony, everytime I see that picture I sware that coyot on the left is smiling. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

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Scott
 
Most of the time I am right on fox, coyote I am usually right, but some huge females fooled me. It is easier to tell when the two are together. I would also say the one on the left is the male.T.20
 
I used to have a pair of Coyotes in my Avitar in which it was real easy to tell which was which, but the Moderators asked me kindly to change it!

Truckeedan
 
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