Coyote Down !!!
 

been getting this coyote on my trail cam a few times, been hearing in howling in the pre-dawn darkness. Yesterday around 8am he showed himself at 60 yds, I took him with my Savage 220f

getting it done in new jersey! awesome man. i've never even seen one here in MD though i hear them often. a few people i know killed some here while calling turkeys this fall.

Its amazing how an animal that a lot of people hate can make you so excited when you shoot one! Congratulations! Cant wait to call my first one in this year!

Although I do understand they need to be kept in check, as an unabashed dog lover, a dead 'yote always make me a bit sad.

However,I don't think we should hate them- they are a sign of a healthy ecosystem.

That said, BOWHUNTERCOP- there are probably 5 or 6 more who didn't show!

edit to add-

well, it looks like I may need to cull the local 'yote population too; sitting on stand yesterday I thought, it's just too quiet-no squirrels, no turkeys and, looking around, zero deer tracks in a usually high traffic zone.

So I took a little walk around and found very fresh tracks in the falling snow from at least two and probably four song dogs; one set was nearly as large as my hand!
Not one deer track on that whole side of the hill the 'yotes are running.

I don't mind encountering one or two but a pack is an entirely different, uh, animal.

what did it weigh? Looks like a nice one. We got a 30 pounder in PA this year.

awesome! put it up right and you'll be 15 bucks ritcher, I wouldn't skin one for 50
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Congrats. Get more of them.

50 pounds said my taxidermist

Bowhuntercop, You had any trouble with your Savage?

50#?!?

That is a big dog!

I'm happy to say my Savage 220f is working just fine

I saw a bigger one a few days later just couldn't get a shot, and November 2013 while bow hunting I saw two....blonde and a gray one together that would be well over 60# each

The 45 to 50 lb. dogs are the norm that gets shot up here.. Although we have them in the 70 to 80 lb range and a few of them get shot or trapped.. It is more of a fact that those bigger dogs are smarter and harder to get..

Every year there's a big coyote hunt in central that's been going on since around 1990.They get thousands of participants and pay out crazy amounts of money for the largest coyote.Usually there's at least 100 coyotes turned in and some years they get over 170.The largest coyote they ever weighed was just over 50lbs.To the best of my knowledge,they've never had one turned in that weighed over 60lbs.Not saying that can't happen but it would be extremely rare.

That's a nice one. I still haven't shot my first one yet. I hear them howling every evening, but actually seeing them and getting a shot are another story. My buddy shot one on our property while sitting in his deer stand. It was just a random thing.

We used to go down to the weigh-in at our local coyote hunt and saw one in the 60s #. That thing looked like a wolf!!!!

Nice work BHC! Good looking yote.
I've killed 3 while deer hunting. One had the exact coloring yours does, a female that weighed 45lbs. Got her mounted :D

The other two I killed were a little smaller, 40 & 38 (all were weighed) and all 3 were totally different colors. We have them trapped on the farm I hunt, they trapped a 65lb'r a few years ago. They also got an all white one a while back...man that was cool!

All I know about size is the dnr guys say the strain of yotes in our area are bigger than the typical size nationwide. 50+ lb yotes are not uncommon where we are.