Don't let the lack of responses discourage you, there's a great bunch of folks here with a lot of knowledge, so I'd encourage you to hang around and keep asking questions.
The reason you didn't get many responses is because some of the questions you asked are REALLY specific info about certain states, or really vague (like "where to hunt"). When you ask specific questions about where to hunt in a given state, unless someone from that state sees it, you won't likely get an answer. Where to hunt is infinitely open ended, so you don't get many answers for those questions either.
Originally Posted by
wannahuntit
Ok so I am trying to get into hunting but having some issues and finding so much conflicting information its ridiculous.
I'd be interested to hear what specifically you're finding that is conflicted. Hunters are people, human beings, and often very opinionated. Many very entrenched in 'old school dogma', and many others are new and don't know the score (but think they do), so it's easy to find conflicting opinions.
Originally Posted by
wannahuntit
C) What do you do with a Coyote once it is dead? I have heard 3 things to do with it.
1) Just toss it in the truck and sell it to a fur barn. Looked up fur barn and find no such thing.
2) Skin on site and sell the pelts. Cant seem to find anything near me to buy them. But Ill drive where ever to sell them, no biggy
3) Field dress, skin to sell pelt, then give carcass to butcher to prep and eat it. The eating thing seems to be the biggest issue. Some peopl say no, some say yes. Need some clarification here with some proof if you can. Unless your proof is you actually eat it yourself. It being weird doesnt bother me, I have eaten maggots in Tawain and rat in China. So weird is fine.
There are a lot of different options for 'what to do with coyotes'. On summer depredation control hunts when the fur is worthless, I take the carcass with me and dispose of it properly in a pit on my own property. During the winter when the fur is thick, I either skin them and sell the hides, or sell the whole carcass green. I skin at my fur shed then dispose of the skinned carcass.
I've never heard a furbuyer called a "fur barn". Maybe you're mistakenly understanding the term "fur shed", which is usually a small shed where guys prepare furs for sale, flesh it, stretch it to dry, etc. If you're looking for a furbuyer, there are lots of resources to find them.
Another option would be to find a local trapper and just let him have the carcasses, that way they can deal with the time consuming hide preparation, and you can spend your time hunting instead, and the fur doesn't go to waste.
You couldn't pay me to eat coyote meat on a regular basis. To each their own I guess. I would bet you will NOT find a butcher shop that is interested in taking the meat. For starters, it's a federal mandate that wild game and domestic meat supply are not processed on the same 'lines' i.e. equipment, at the same time, so a small butcher would not legally be able to do so. I'd also be VERY surprised if a typical wild game processor would take in a coyote. Deer and elk are one thing, but 'vermin' are a different story.
If you want to butcher and eat it, go right ahead. What you ate a few times as part of a local culture while you were overseas is very different than butchering and eating coyotes on a regular basis. I have eaten coyote meat a few times, won't eat it again, and I can't even imagine eating the volume of coyote meat that I'd put down in a year...