First ever coyote.

I dunno but good job! You call him in?

That's a nice coyote, a lot of them around here look pretty haggard, with mange and disease they are pretty gaunt. The face looks like it has husky in it compared to our yotes out west, they have more brown and the ears don't look quite as prominent as that. That would make a nice pelt, do you have people buying pelts around there?

What did you shoot it with? Looks like a ruger american, .22mag?

Thats a dog/yote mix. The face and short legs say dog.. and the rest of the build is differant than any coyote ive ever killed.

Noob question. Other than taking the pelt (if it's worth it) what do you do with the rest of the animal??? Deer and squirrel, I understand. Coyotes, not so much.


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StogieRob

Congrats. I've run across a few out hunting, but never could get a shot off.

They're smart critters.

Having hunted coyotes for decades, I gotta agree with Gunnerboy, that's either a domestic bread dog gone wild, someone's ranch / farm dog, or it's a hybrid cross breed of sorts. The legs and ears look wrong, short legs, wide short ears, short nose, and the tail looks short. He also isn't gated like a yote. And he also looks way to healthy and well fed for a yote. I might be mistaken, but his neck also kind of looks like it may have had a collar on it before?

Did you shoot him within close proximity to someone's farm house or ranch? It sure would be a shame to have shot someone's ranch dog. Out here, much of our public lands are leased to cattle rancher's, meaning that their dogs can sometimes be within close enough distance of a call to come into it. I can't positively say this hasn't happened to me before, I think I've shot one or two, unintentionally of course.

GS

That isn't a coyote, I also have shot plenty of coyotes so I know what they look like. I have also shot plenty of brush wolves and that is what I would say it is. That animal has more of a wolf look than a domestic dog. Now I don't know what a hybrid would look like, I have to say I've never seen one. Brush wolves and coyotes both will attack dogs and eat them. They don't necessarily have to be small either.
I would think for the hybrid cross to take place that the population of coyotes would have to be almost nothing for it to happen. The other way would be someone with a puppy mill breeding designer dogs.

Looks like a coyote to me, I've shot plenty as well. Coloration is very coyote, the angle on the face looks unlike a typical coyote but could just be a weird angle on a furred up song dog. That is a coyote tail.

There was an article in the Field and Stream some time back that said that 100% of the coyotes they dna checked east of the Mississippi had gray wolf or dog genes. They can be very different in size and shape from the western types but they're still coyotes. I think the wolf gene makes them a little more difficult to call too. Just my 2 cents.

That sounds plausible Dinosaur1, it does have some wolf characteristics about it.

But as far as coyotes go, it doesn't look much like the one's I've seen out here, or in the Midwest either.

GS

Pretty good shooting on a yote that big if you dropped him with one shot from a .22LR. Good shooting.

Just my .02,
LeonCarr

Gamestalker, from what I've seen on TV and very limited personal experience, western coyotes can be called by guys in clown suits playing the William Tell Overture on a tuba. These eastern coyotes are SMART. Often frightened away before you see them by the wind in your eye lashes.

Well, I don't know about eastern yotes, but our coyotes are very smart, often times they circle to wind you. So to say they are any easier to call in than the eastern strain, that's debatable, yotes are yotes.

And what you see on TV is probably not the best example, it's TV my friend, which means you don't get to view the one's that stopped short after having busted the caller.

GS

Was down along th Gila some years back at a party and there was a mariachi band playing. Directly a half dozen coyotes came out from the river bottom and sat down by the edge of the brush. I knew right then I had been doing it wrong. I left the Fox Pro in the truck up by Flagstaff and took out the CD player. Sure enough, after a few minutes of mariachi a big coyote came running. I woulda shot him too but he was wearin' a little sombrero and I couldn't do it. Hasn't worked for me back east here yet. Thinkin' about tryin' Tony Bennett.

I don't think Bama coydogs would like Bennett so much, maybe Skynyrd.

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I fully agree with that statement.