Dragging coyotes

Megalon said:
I may be the last remaining hide hunter. Maybe someday fur will make a comeback and I will be rich. Or maybe I will have a lot of worthless pelts. Either way these coyotes out here have spectacular coats in the winter. That's why I drag them. It's really a shame nobody wants fur anymoreView attachment 34001View attachment 34000
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You're not the last one. I take all my fur and either tan it or sell it.
 
Just on the subject of varmints eating varmints in general. I've many times seen a prairie dog start munching on a just splattered compadre. Same with rock chucks. We used to have a place to shoot rock chucks with irrigated alfalfa and soy. Kind of place you could sit in one spot without moving and shoot a few dozen 'chucks in a couple of hours and end up with a three digit day by moving around a little bit. But it was almost common, that a chuck would come out and start munching on a splattered one. Shoot it. Another one would come to munch. Shoot it. We'd be glassing and call out "got one on the dead pile!". End up with half a dozen dead chucks piled together.

I even once shot a jackrabbit in a prairie dog town. We were trying for a 1,000 yard prairie dog that day - didn't get it done, my longest was 880 and my buddies was 970. But I shot a jackrabbit at about 700 yards. And a prairie dog ran over and dragged that damn thing down a hole! We walked out and could hear the wet smacking sounds of that prairie dog munching on that jackrabbit from down in the hole. Crazy.

- DAA
 
Made a few trips to southwest Colorado for prairie dogs on irrigated alfalfa usually around middle of May, pups were about 7" tall and as Dave said, could sit in one spot and pile them up. We were shooting 17hmr and was limited on range but our attention turned to the pups and after a pretty big pile we would call shot location, ie head, mid, lower and would literally dissect them. The cowardly grown-ups would venture out of the den and grab some remains and skedaddle back to the den. The first time I went and witnessed this I told my brother there was no saving that pup, only half was left. Brother told me, they are not trying to save it, they are eating it!
I have personally witnessed a coyote eating a dead coyote here in Oklahoma and also hogs eating a dead hog. I think that seems really weird but we all probably remember the guy, Jeffrey Dahmer.
 
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more than 3 I pull the sled out and collect in one run.
 
Badbrass said:
I don't think coyotes eat coyotes.
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I didn't used to think they did until I shot one that was eating a coyote I'd killed the day before. There was a heavy concentration of coyotes in that area, not very many rabbits or anything else around. So they probably ate whatever they could get.

The weirdest part about it I thought was the coyote that was eating the dead coyote was healthy. The one I'd shot the day before had mange. I'd have imagined a sick coyote eating anothet coyote before I'd have thought a healthy one would. But then again, if they're hungry they'll probably eat anything. I shot a coyote carrying a skunk once. I saw a coyote about to eat a skunk also, it got more concerned with me and abandoned that idea. Then it got shot.

They'll even eat porcupines if that's all they can find. That probably never turns out real great for them but I've seen evidence of it.
 
Megalon said:
I may be the last remaining hide hunter. Maybe someday fur will make a comeback and I will be rich. Or maybe I will have a lot of worthless pelts. Either way these coyotes out here have spectacular coats in the winter. That's why I drag them. It's really a shame nobody wants fur anymore.
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Man... your pictures make me want to buckle down and buy a fur gun.
 
Badbrass said:
I don't think coyotes eat coyotes.
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Ran a few baits with neck snares for a few years (legal here in Canada) most times there was no issue with coyotes being eaten but twice I had baits where another coyote was purposely walking around chewing on other coyotes instead of the butcher scraps and dead cows at the bait not 100 yards away.
 
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