'Yotes: What to do with carcusses when pelts have little value?

[Dave N]

Whenever I shot one I threw it down into the ravine. Private property. The one time I left it where it lay it stayed there for a long time without being touched.

 

[Nick87]

Several times I've shot them and put them in somebody else's truck at work or a buddy truck in there driveway. All in good fun.

 

[44hunter45]

Takes fewer sticks for a coyote.

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[44hunter45]

Many people just don’t think past the end of their nose on this kind of thing. I’ve shot and trapped a small pile over the years. The simple answer is dump them out of sight from any road or anyone who cares, on property that you’re supposed to be on. Preferably the same property the coyote was taken from if possible. Natures cleanup crew will take care of it shortly.

Same goes for deer gut piles. I can’t tell you how many times over the years parts of deer carcasses have been strewn all over out in the road in the area I hunt because unscrupulous hunters decided they should gut their kills right in a roadside ditch. It’s infuriating. And I have even had words with people I have caught doing it on a property my family leased. Then they acted like I’m the bad guy for stopping them from dumping deer guts on the edge of the road.

Gut piles and bones are one thing. What galls me is finding a deer in the road ditch with the backstraps and MAYBE the hams removed. I don't get why you would haul it out if you are going to wanton waste it anyway?

 

[J-Booda]

telling me if I didn't like it don't do it

As in if you're not going to eat them? Interesting response.

 

[Cornell Cowboy]

Only thing that ever eats coyote carcasses I have found is ravens and magpies

Eagles will too--at least the coyotes at my place.

 

[Hilljackoutlaw]

I shot one with my bow one time. Left it lay. This is a place with more coyotes than you can shake a stick at and that thing sat there for months on end and was never touched by anything.

 

[J-Booda]

I don't know anyone that hunts predators or varmints either. I'm still new to the game... hunting in general that is. My thought is if I can learn the ropes hunting coyote (steep learning curve, I know) and crow, that leaves deer and turkey season for the experienced folks.

 

[TX Trophy Hunter]

I eat them. Usually make sesame chicken or sweet and sour pork.

 

[bucdoego]

A neighbor shot a 'yote this week while he was sitting a deer stand. it was after a fawn, so its now gone. Gave it to a guy he knew that trapped them and wanted the hide.

 

[millerkiller77]

Leave them by the fence to rot

 

[wytex]

Hang 'em up actually.

Coyotes eat a lot of fawns, killing them saves fawns that will become the deer meat you put ion your freezer. PDs can and do carry the plague they also burrow fields and are hazards to cattle and people for that matter.
With mule deer numbers down across the West, please start shooting predators- coyotes in particular.

We may sell a few we trap this year if very nice ones. Otherwise we may get a few tanned and sell them that way.
Some counties out West have bounties on coyotes, good way to help deer and make a few dollars.

 

[D4570]

Now that fur is almost worthless I'm going to take there heads and boil them and bleach them and sell them that way. It's easy to do and cheap If you have an in with a hair and beauty shop, I use their Peroxide to bleach.

 

[buckbull]

Now that fur is almost worthless I'm going to take there heads and boil them and bleach them and sell them that way. It's easy to do and cheap If you have an in with a hair and beauty shop, I use their Peroxide to bleach.

Cool idea. How much do you sell them for?

 

[D4570]

50 to 75 $$$ No plaque just a head.

 

[buckbull]

50 to 75 $$$ No plaque just a head.

Dang! Good for you.

 

[mikefromcanada]

It is unfortunate the hides are no longer worth anything. You at least could make your gas money back before.

 

[BrentD]

It would seem some people don't know or care. I just saw where some were discussing using them as bear bait, but what if you aren't a bear hunter, etc. What is considered 'ethical'?

Wyoming Hunters Angry Over Pile Of Coyote Carcasses Dumped In Public
Wyoming hunters are reacting with anger over whoever left a pile of dead coyotes along a road to a popular recreation area near Rock Springs. They say it undercuts the importance of ethical predator control.

Wyoming Hunters Angry Over Pile Of Coyote Carcasses Dumped In Public

Wyoming hunters are reacting with anger over whoever left a pile of dead coyotes along a road to a popular recreation area near Rock Springs. They say it…

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PS - Never shot a 'yote. The question is asked in earnest, as I don't know the answer.

Why not just not shoot'em?

 

[mtnkid85]

If you know anyone with beetles for skull cleaning they are often looking for dead critters to keep their bugs alive in the off seasons.

 

[howl]

A hunt club I'm in has a designated spot to dump carcasses. Most hogs and all coyotes are dumped there.

I encourage people to wantonly kill and waste any predators of turkeys.


Another property I have access to is managed by a rule requiring the consumption of anything killed. The place is overrun by hogs and coyotes to the exclusion of deer and turkeys. You will see a coyote there any night and will see a hog if you put in a little effort. Deer, usually not. Turkeys, never. I live nearby and kill several deer every year on my property.