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Re: coyotes

Post by ditto1958 » Sun Jul 09, 2017 9:00 pm

North Country Gal wrote:Heard our local neighborhood pack singing, just the other night. Makes for a fun evening serenade.
NCG, are coyotes relatively new to the North Woods? We have them here now down in the Fox Valley, but I don't remember anyone ever talking about them here when I was a kid. They were something they had out west- and in the Roadrunner cartoons on Saturday mornings. I saw one in here broad daylight this past winter when I was on my way to the range. It was running around within spitting distance of the local high school.
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Re: coyotes

Post by tarbe » Thu Dec 07, 2017 10:22 pm

Ever since I saw a game camera pic of a coyote carrying a fawn in its jaws, I shoot every one I can.

I've called a few in with the dying rabbit call, but mostly they've been targets of opportunity.
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Re: coyotes

Post by tarbe » Thu Dec 07, 2017 10:31 pm

ditto1958 wrote:
North Country Gal wrote:Heard our local neighborhood pack singing, just the other night. Makes for a fun evening serenade.
NCG, are coyotes relatively new to the North Woods? We have them here now down in the Fox Valley, but I don't remember anyone ever talking about them here when I was a kid. They were something they had out west- and in the Roadrunner cartoons on Saturday mornings. I saw one in here broad daylight this past winter when I was on my way to the range. It was running around within spitting distance of the local high school.
I grew up in Washington County Wisconsin in the 60s and early 70s and we did not have coyotes then...only fox.

When I moved to Eau Claire in the early 80s after having been out of state a while, I was surprised to learn there were coyotes there!

Maybe they were up in Eau Claire even back in the 60s and 70s...I don't know. But I killed my first coyote while bow hunting for deer, in October 1985 in Sawyer County. That was the first coyote I had ever seen or heard in Wisconsin.
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Re: coyotes

Post by North Country Gal » Fri Dec 08, 2017 11:24 am

ditto1958 wrote:
North Country Gal wrote:Heard our local neighborhood pack singing, just the other night. Makes for a fun evening serenade.
NCG, are coyotes relatively new to the North Woods? We have them here now down in the Fox Valley, but I don't remember anyone ever talking about them here when I was a kid. They were something they had out west- and in the Roadrunner cartoons on Saturday mornings. I saw one in here broad daylight this past winter when I was on my way to the range. It was running around within spitting distance of the local high school.
Actually, yes. Coyotes began spreading north and east back in the 60s and 70s. Not originally native to northern Wisconsin and the New England area. Big news, back then. Made quite a stir. Biologists also noticed that they increased in size when they adapted to our northern forest areas. Coyotes, up here, are much larger than those scrawny desert coyotes.

More recently, another newcomer to the north woods is the Turkey. A few were stocked up here, experimentally, not long, ago. Biologists did not expect them to take hold and survive our northern winters, but the Turkeys fooled them. They're doing, well. Had a flock wander though our yard, a few weeks, back.
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Re: coyotes

Post by Sir Henry » Fri Dec 08, 2017 7:22 pm

Our desert coyotes are huge as they eat the wheat and potato crops. Back in the early 70's coyote pelts were the rage and fetched up to $100 each. I enjoy seeing and hearing them. They usually mate for life and I've always respected them for it.

I like to refer to them as k-ay-HO-tee instead of ki-OAT.
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Re: coyotes

Post by The Wiz » Fri Dec 08, 2017 8:34 pm

A lot of urban coyotes in The Chicago metro area. Will take small dogs, etc. However, the average life expectation is just over a year. Mostly disease and cars.
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Re: coyotes

Post by Mgderf » Thu Dec 14, 2017 9:35 pm

Just took a large male coyote the other day.
I had two come by at a dead run not 20 feet in front of my ground hide (just a hole dug into the side of a hill) while I was deer hunting.
Hit him with a 225gr Powerbelt bullet in front of 2 pellets (100grs) of IMR White Hots.

Rolled him down the hill quite nicely.
There are many more where he came from.
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Re: coyotes

Post by Mistered » Thu Dec 14, 2017 10:03 pm

Thick as thieves in Oregon - especially Eastern. Shoot on sight as vermin. Ditto in the value of hides in the 70's as SIr Henry said but furs are out of style and not much value. Not near as many people hunting them as there used to be but I know a few that still do it for something to do in the winter as we do not have to go far to do it. Heck I may be getting out and give it a try (again - after not doing it for many years)
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Re: coyotes

Post by Sir Henry » Fri Dec 15, 2017 8:24 am

I saw two yotes driving out to Wisconsin from Washington State.
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Re: coyotes

Post by CT_Shooter » Fri Dec 15, 2017 9:38 am

Sir Henry wrote:I saw two yotes driving out to Wisconsin from Washington State.
Were they driving a RoadRunner? :lol:
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