What do you do with your coyotes

[Mainer207]

So, I’ve never been a predator hunter, but as I get more into hunting I want to give it a go.

I’m curious what you guys do with your coyotes...Do you leave them lay, skins for the walls, or have you made garments out of the furs?

My girlfriend handled a coyote fur at the local bow shop and now she wants a hat...I’m wondering if I can skin and tan myself before taking it to someone to make the hat or is the whole process better off in someone else’s hands?

cheers!

 

[brockel]

Skin,flesh, stretch, and sell

 

[Sask hunter]

Same as brockel

 

[timmy]

Hang them in the shed and sell them whole. I don’t shoot any til December though.

 

[MThuntr]

Hang them in the shed and sell them whole. I don’t shoot any til December though.

I never learned how to skin them so I sell whole.....for basically nothing lately. Personal beliefs have changed so I rarely shoot Yotes these days

 

[wyoboypt]

I sell them whole in the winter. Too nasty to bother with skinning. I don’t get enough coyotes to make it worth it anyhow.

 

[timmy]

I do pretty decent selling them whole, I’ve put them up before but it hasn’t been worth it to me at least.

 

[wytex]

Skin , stretch and dry also. Our earlier coyotes bring good money, late Oct into November for the best price. Good guard hairs, good price.

 

[brockel]

I built a skimming machine and a tumbler. Now if I could find someone to do my fleshing I’d have it made.

 

[SG25]

I mostly hunt coyotes and do everything from the skinning - tan all myself. Once you get proficient with it, it is super easy and saves a lot of money vs having them done by a taxidermist/ tannery. I use them as wall hangers, gifts, or sell them. You can make a skinning rack fairly cheap, save yourself a lot of time and get a small cheap pressure washer for fleshing, make a stretcher vs buying one already made, and buy the tanning supplies online. Or you could just put them on the stretcher and let them dry and leave them that way. I never leave coyotes out in the field unless they have mange, then I bury them.

 

[Hunting Wife]

Started putting them up last winter. Got the first batch tanned, but I have the first 4 of the year drying in the garage right now. They’ll go to sale.

 

[SukiSuki]

Make chili for my neighbors

 

[sharpshooter97]

Sell to a local buyer

 

[Bigmo58]

Skin flesh and sell them. They have some value if you do it right.

 

[okie archer]

I like to have mine tanned and hang in the man cave with my other hides including bobcat, beaver, badger, fox. I think they look nice.
Yes coyotes do stink but once you get through the process that come back smelling good from the tannery.
I just show one from my deer stand with my bow earlier this week. It is already skinned and salted.

 

[BrentD]

I watch'em.

 

[kmott]

moyle and mink tannery
Heyburn idaho

866-826-3877

 

[Cullboss]

Sell them whole, decent prices last year in Montana.

 

[thusby]

Skinning has a a fun skill to learn. Once you get your knives sharp and learn the method it is effortless. Gotta want a new hobbie though

 

[fmnjr]

If you want to see a pro at work on yotes watch the movie Trapper Jake, on amazon I think.