Ever lost a deer to coyotes??
#11
Considering that the average weight of a male coyote is about 35 lbs, you can certainly understand why I'd be skeptical of any claim of abnormally large coyote being somewhat common. Feral dogs, after several generations of crossbreeding, often begin to assume features of wolves all the breeds are derived from, so if there is a well established population of multi-generation feral dogs they might be confused with their wild cousins. There are distinct differences between dogs/wolves and coyote, but to be sure you'd have to have a necropsy done.
But until proven otherwise, I'll take your word for it that what you have was a true coyote.
Mike
But until proven otherwise, I'll take your word for it that what you have was a true coyote.
Mike
#13
It's not the yotes here but the wild hogs.
I sot a small doe last season and just took out the shoulders,hams and backstraps.
When I went back the next morning the rest of the deer all but the head had been eaten to the bone.
It was less than 12 hours
I sot a small doe last season and just took out the shoulders,hams and backstraps.
When I went back the next morning the rest of the deer all but the head had been eaten to the bone.
It was less than 12 hours
#14
Considering that the average weight of a male coyote is about 35 lbs, you can certainly understand why I'd be skeptical of any claim of abnormally large coyote being somewhat common. Feral dogs, after several generations of crossbreeding, often begin to assume features of wolves all the breeds are derived from, so if there is a well established population of multi-generation feral dogs they might be confused with their wild cousins. There are distinct differences between dogs/wolves and coyote, but to be sure you'd have to have a necropsy done.
But until proven otherwise, I'll take your word for it that what you have was a true coyote.
Mike
But until proven otherwise, I'll take your word for it that what you have was a true coyote.
Mike
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#15
Around here if you waited til morning to look for a deer all you would find would be a half eaten deer.
Bow hunters lose many here, and elk too. Have tracked up a lot of wounded deer for folks: If the deer is not recovered the evening that it is shot, there is about a 75 percent chance that the coyotes will get it. Sometimes the hogs beat the coyotes to the carcass. i will sometimes set up on a deer carcass and zap some coyotes as they come in.
There are some abnormally large coyotes at our place in south central OK. Some easliy go 75 pounds. Some folks claim that those large coyotes have red wolf blood. Methinks they may be coydogs.
Last edited by falcon; 11-01-2009 at 04:06 PM.
#16
Typical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Mesa, Arizona
Posts: 986
Yes we should be able to hunt them buggers all year round here, with all the pets (small dogs, cats) being eaten by them, eventually they will give in and we'll be able to.
And I know mabey a 70+ Lb Coyote is hard for you to imagine, but there taken here all the time, and I also have taken one. I have the hide tanned fom the one I got and if some one wants to put the picture on here I'll e-mail it to you and you can for me.
Im 6'6" tall and me holding the tanned hide will show you just how big they get here. I'd post the pic myself but I still have to get with sabotloader so he can walk me through the steps.
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And I know mabey a 70+ Lb Coyote is hard for you to imagine, but there taken here all the time, and I also have taken one. I have the hide tanned fom the one I got and if some one wants to put the picture on here I'll e-mail it to you and you can for me.
Im 6'6" tall and me holding the tanned hide will show you just how big they get here. I'd post the pic myself but I still have to get with sabotloader so he can walk me through the steps.
(BP)
#17
Bow hunters lose many here, and elk too. Have tracked up a lot of wounded deer for folks: If the deer is not recovered the evening that it is shot, there is about a 75 percent chance that the coyotes will get it. Sometimes the hogs beat the coyotes to the carcass. i will sometimes set up on a deer carcass and zap some coyotes as they come in.
I'll have to try that for Hogs
#18
If some one wants to PM me and give me there e-mail address I'll send them a few pics I jus took of the Coyote in question, so they can post them for me on here. I took the pics with My Black Lab next to the Coyote hide, my lab weighs 90lbs, so this is a good comparison to show how big the get.
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#19
Bow hunters lose many here, and elk too. Have tracked up a lot of wounded deer for folks: If the deer is not recovered the evening that it is shot, there is about a 75 percent chance that the coyotes will get it. Sometimes the hogs beat the coyotes to the carcass. i will sometimes set up on a deer carcass and zap some coyotes as they come in.
There are some abnormally large coyotes at our place in south central OK. Some easliy go 75 pounds. Some folks claim that those large coyotes have red wolf blood. Methinks they may be coydogs.
There are some abnormally large coyotes at our place in south central OK. Some easliy go 75 pounds. Some folks claim that those large coyotes have red wolf blood. Methinks they may be coydogs.
Mike
#20
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Posts: 3,092
Many years ago, I was bowhunting in the next county south of where I now sit. I was trying to do some stalk hunting (which I was pretty good at back then). I eased out of the woods to see three large yotes eating a deer which they had obviously just taken down.
They didn't see me at first, so I started directly toward them thinking to put an arrow in one of them. The had at first been about 50 yards away and I perhaps made 5 yards toward them before they spotted me. I figured they would bolt away at the sight of me as most every other coyote I had ever encountered would have done.
But NOOOOOO!... those big boys got side by side between me and their kill and started advancing toward ME! I shouted, no effect. They were snarling and growling as if I was going to be desert.
I turned a left the opening, back into the timber from which I came, while keeping an eye over my shoulder. They didn't follow, thankfully. That old recurve didn't seem like much of a weapon all of a sudden.
Never before and never since have I seen coyotes act so fearlessly and aggressively. Put the hair on the back of my head at attention!
Did you guys read of that young woman being attacked by two coyotes in Canada just recently. She died shortly afterward from her wounds. KILL THEM ALL!
They didn't see me at first, so I started directly toward them thinking to put an arrow in one of them. The had at first been about 50 yards away and I perhaps made 5 yards toward them before they spotted me. I figured they would bolt away at the sight of me as most every other coyote I had ever encountered would have done.
But NOOOOOO!... those big boys got side by side between me and their kill and started advancing toward ME! I shouted, no effect. They were snarling and growling as if I was going to be desert.
I turned a left the opening, back into the timber from which I came, while keeping an eye over my shoulder. They didn't follow, thankfully. That old recurve didn't seem like much of a weapon all of a sudden.
Never before and never since have I seen coyotes act so fearlessly and aggressively. Put the hair on the back of my head at attention!
Did you guys read of that young woman being attacked by two coyotes in Canada just recently. She died shortly afterward from her wounds. KILL THEM ALL!