"proper" name for a Coyote????

Go easy fellas, it is late summer and we are all getting a little grouchy. If we don't have something to gripe about we might go crazy. Coyote season for me is still two loooooog months away. When the leaves have fallen and the fur is ripe for the picking I will be flooding the boards with tales of high adventure and lots of pics.

Good hunting.

Q,
 
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I call them coyotes (2 sylables). When someone calls them "coyotee" that just sounds "city" or "eastern" to me. Plus, almost everyone in Kali calls them "coyotees". Makes me want to snicker, and I envision some bad 50's western when people talk like that, but what the heck, no skin off my back.

The cute little pet names usually don't bother me too much, except when people start calling pronghorns "speed goat". That just makes my skin crawl for some reason.

I guess it's just human nature. People want to learn and use the "inside lingo" to show they're, well, "on the inside" or "in the know". Article writers in the magazines seem to be especially guilty of this. I usually take with a huge grain of salt what anyone doing that says.

Funny, I don't really have much of a problem with "yote" or
"muley", but that "speed goat" thing.... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smiliesmack.gif
 
I guess my biggest contention is people see disrespect from this. I come on here and a few other sites to learn, i dont always post replies because often enough i dont have the answer either, but i read most of what is said to learn from people. However, what they call a coyote is the last thing on my mind as to whether or not they know what they are talking about. That is in fact the last thing i would consider when determining someones credibility. I can tell when someones done it, or is just referncing something they heard or read somewhere else. Many many older hunters who I consider great predator hunters, including my boss who calls nearly every weekend and takes between 18-25 coyotes a year plus fox and bobcat, and who no one on here would have even heard of, calls them all kinds of things.

That being said, I consider calling in and killing a coyote one of the great pleasures i can partake in, the only thing that is better than that to me is rattling horns for a big buck. I treat each animal the same, and give them the respect they deserve. So whether I call them a yote or whatever else shouldnt make one damn bit of difference.

Nevertheless I didnt mean to start anything here, just wanted some opinions on this.
 
I generally call them coyotes. Sometimes I use other slang, no big whoop to me /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif. As for "respect", I respect their abilities, is all. Never shot a pup, or a nursing female, doesn't interest me. Don't care who does either. Coyote killin, is killin IMB.

Personally, I prefer hunting educated coyotes /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif.
 
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One guy I know calls them Yodel Dogs. I call them both versions of Coyote (2 and 3 sylabes) I use the 2 sylable version unless speaking to someone that don't hunt them and then I use the 3 sylable verson.

t/c223encore.
 
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I guess my biggest contention is people see disrespect from this.



/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif aka coyote snobs /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

I'm in agreement with most on here. It doesn't matter what you call them, really. Just because you call them one thing or another doesn't mean you don't know what your talking about. You're terminology may not be the same as another. Even if a persons level of "experience" did matter it is easily pick up with content rather than semantics.

You didn't bring you're yote rifle whitchadiga?

What? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused1.gif
 
Slim...ya soun' like ya might'n jes'b a r'dneck. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif Is ya? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused1.gif

I is & PROUD OF IT!!!! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-006.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
That does it. I've been trying to hold off but if the conversations come down to the coyotes name then I have to get out in the field NOW. Grabbing my stuff after work and going. By the way, in conversation the official name is "ki-ote". When they are in my scope the official name is "hold right there s###stick".
 
The offical Indiana version is Ki-oat.

Later,

Scott

S.P.I.C.E. Oh that is to funny /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
I call 'em a different name almost every time I call 'em and anybody don't like that needs to get themselves a life... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smiliesmack.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused1.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smiliesmack.gif

Desert Dawg, Ki-oh-tee, song dog, fawn killer, suburb slinker.... Let's call the whole thing off... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

$bob$
 
Great post!

I have spent a lifetime trying to overcome other people's first impressions of me. My pure Eastern Kentucky Appalachin dialect has a tenedency to come across to others as "uneducated hillbilly" or "dumb hillbilly."

To tie this to coyote hunting and the current topic, I will share a wonderful experience hunting coyotes with Rockin 7 Ranch in Glendo, Wyoming.

As humans, we tend to "size" people up at all times. My partner and I have been hunting coyotes, hard, for about six years now. When we went to, wide open Wyoming, of course, our outfitter and guides were a buzz at "sizing" us up. As soon as I open my mouth, the body language of the person I am speaking to kicks into overdrive! I have always pronounced it "ki-oat-ee." In my "mountain drawl" this can be unusual for those who have not heard my dialect. Couple this with my current deteriorating condition of my feet (well communicated before the hunt), and you get the body language from them that says "this dog CAN'T hunt!"

At the end of the four day hunt, we had killed five coyotes with no missed shots from ranges of 110 yds to 330 yds. We had observed 24 coyotes during this time and killed all that were reasonable shots. Our guides all called them "ki-oat." The biggest things my partner and I did was put "meat on the table" and listened to and hunted the guides way. We now have friends for life. You would be amazed at how many hunters they get who cannot hit the target! I was truly impressed by the outfitter (Brad, who guided) and his other two guides (Mark and Scott). Great down to earth coyote hunters, among other things! In the end, a couple of coyote hunters from Virginia earned the mutual respect of our coyote guides and were offered an invite back.

I did not adopt their pronunciation of "ki-oat," but I did adopt their Stormy Kromer hats! LOL /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

Redhound80
 
Great Story Redhound80,

I can certainly relate to what your saying. I'm a country boy to the bone and with my Texas accent I get "put on the farm" quiet a bit by supposedly "higher educated" people. I love it though as it gives me the advantage of being underestimated.

Funny how people can let such a little thing as a dialect annoy them or make judgments about people.

Back to the topic. Most people would consider Murry Burnham and Gerry Blair pretty wise in the ways of coyotes. I've heard Murry refer to coyotes as coyotees and read Gerry articles where he has called them a variety of things besides coyote. Novices? I think not.

Dusty,

Target practice? Thats funny right thar. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Byron /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
Pecan, Pec-on. Who cares? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused1.gif

I think its funny when the term "song dog" is made fun of. The word "coyote" was borrowed from Mexican Spanish, which itself borrowed the term from the Náhuatl (Aztec) word cóyotl which may have meant "singing dog". So to call it a song dog, youre really only translating its name. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused1.gif

Ive often heard them refered to as SOB's. Now I dont know what that stands for but Im sure its gotta be with the utmost respect, right?

 
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Ive often heard them refered to as SOB's. Now I dont know what that stands for but Im sure its gotta be with the utmost respect, right?



That is the proper term for their mother. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
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like you its alot easier typing yotes



Only lazy slob hunters really think it easier to type "yote" than "coyote". /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif It's only 2 more letters /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smiliesmack.gif

All kidding aside, I NEVER heard a Texan pronounce it "ki-ate". /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

Now Ki-oat (long i), we say. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
I say Ki-oat, but my family calls them everything that has been listed. I do often refer to them as a dog.

I went over there to the other site, posted and tried to read along. It just came across as being a little uptight. I don't own a 17 Remington, don't hunt for fur, don't slay 600+ coyotes a year, so I don't go there anymore. It was just hard to have fun reading along.

.02 A.G.
 
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Only lazy slob hunters really think it easier to type "yote" than "coyote". /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif It's only 2 more letters /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smiliesmack.gif





I just simply refer to them as DOGS most of the time, but I use Yote a lot.

But I think I make up for my Lazy Slob Hunter ways by referring to Buzzards as the "Mexican Airforce"...
 
You say tomato....

OK I did one time make the mistake of calling them "SongDogs" on another site, and they thought I was shooting the neighbors barking dog....

I explained and they were even more shocked and put out that I would shoot those poor wild creatures, they were not food, so how could I justify it!!!! I quit visiting that site, and have since refurred to them as coyotes (Ki-Yotes)...

I call them with my Johney Stewert, or even more fun with the awsome calls from THO, and when they come in, I introduce myself with a "Bang"...if I do my part, they don't have much to say after the introductions.....
 
What the problem with shootin the neighbors barkin dog?

I calls em 'ground skeet"
and sum*****, as in "Look at dat sum**** go!"
CD
 


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