Coyote Hunting
Massachusetts
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I saw my first ever coyotes in the woods hunting from a stand this season. Also, have been seeing on the news that some folks are having run ins with these four legged fellows. So it got me thinking about possibly hunting them. I would have to figure out what to do with them if I actually am successful because I can't just shoot something and not use it, or give it to someone that will.
Do you guys bother to hunt them after deer season ends? Pete
Why shoot them bastards leave them or pelt them.
If they don't have mange the pelts are real nice. Coyotes won't eat their own dead, so they don't make good bait for more coyotes. A bet each shot coyote means a lot of fawns get to live, something to think about.
My neighbor said someone pays about 40 bucks per . More for the big ones. Gut it and freeze it , No skinning needed . Ill get the number if it happens . P/m me as needed. But bag it and get it in a freezer.
If I bag a big one I will take it to the Taxi-d man and have him make a rug. Nailed a small one once at 50 yards . kneeling down on a homemade tree stand . 20 feet up . Shot him when he pounced on a snake. That must have came as a shock to the little bugger.
I have about 4 MA deer under my belt. I have about two dozen coyotes. I would coordinate with PI if he has a guy who handles them. Finding one with a good pelt can be difficult as most show some signs of mange. There are other online places out there that you can ship pelts to for processing, outside of local taxidermist of course.
Hit’em with a 22-250. High velocity, small projectile means minimal pelt damage. I’m please don’t hunt them with HMR or .22wmr, the chances you’ll only wound them are high. You want them dead.
If you shoot them and leave them the most likely predator to eat them is a fisher. Other than that, you leave them for the ants. Just an FYI.
Finally, if you have gas lines or power lines near you, go set up high on one of those. They use it as a highway.
Don’t be afraid to bait. Put it out, leave it, then refill a few times before you go out.
GL!
I almost forgot, DO NOT handle them with bare hands ever!! Rubber gloves only, and I mean rubber gloves under your hunting gloves hen wash the hell out of your hunting gloves after.
Treat their bodies as if they were a writhing pile of hook worms and other nasty parasites. Because they are.
who says coyotes don't eat coyotes. they absolutely do.
they avoid any free meal that smells like humans, I've tried a few times to use deer carcasses as bait and they don't touch them same with pheasants. however where my old man hunts their is a big rock pile in a field with a den in it. all the coyotes he shots try to make it back to the rock pile, usually the other ones tare them to peace's before they make it their. he has video taped it in years past. if you want a coyote to be bait don't go any ware near it.
Good information Stillhunter. Reality check !
Cool stillhunter, we'll have to check that out. Several spots where we hunt we have an active coyote erradication program running. But you kill 2 and 4 show up next, never ending battle.
Anyone ever use their muzzleloader for hunting them?