Uncle mat, to answer a few more of your questions.
Coyote season is open year round for anybody with a valid hunting licence with the exception of slug season. A person can only hunt coyote during slug season with an unused deer tag.
There is also no checking in of a coyote.
But via a friend that heard more about that story from somebody close to the action of this, I will share a little info. This is all second hand info, so don' t bet your life on it
As I said above, you don' t have to check these animals in, but this guy knew what he had wasn' t a coyote. So he called in the DOC. To which they told him that he had some kind of mix breed coy dog or something. He didn' t like that answer, s.
o he called another DOC guy and was told the same thing. This was not a good answer for him, basically cause he knew better. So within a few days of this he called a scientist or something at a zoo somewhere here in central Illinois and he agreed to meet him. When he met him he imediatlly told him that he had a wolf, which wasn' t to much of a surprise to the guy. So he returned home and in the next few days he recieved a call from the Feds and they asked him a whole bunch of questions and I believe they came and took the wolf for testing.
Now with that story we speculated that the state of Illinois knew something about the wolves in Illinois but didn' t want people to know that they were. The scientists or bioligists from the zoo must have called the feds and told them the story.
And now you know the rest of the story.
Like I said, I don' t know how true this information was....but the person I recieved it from don' t joke around to much about hunting in general.
Wolf killed in Illinois
