My First Coyote

[Mark 1911]

It was supposed to be a deer hunt. It's muzzle loader season. My hunting weapon is a 50 cal muzzle loader with power belt bullets. I forget the bullet weight, I think they are 375 grain.

About 8am eastern I see 3 does moving fast through the woods over 100 yards away. They break into an open field pedal down, non stop until out of sight. Something spooked them, they were too far away for me to have spooked them. I had no idea why. About 3 hours later I decide to get down for lunch. Just before I start to climb down I see a coyote. She parked on a fallen tree about 50 yds away. That's when she got her just reward.

Very unusual coloration. Nice looking animal. Since its my first one, and since she's so different, I am having it full body mounted in a snarling stance.

 

[JeremiahJohnson]

Nice! Congratulations!

That's a really black looking yote.

I killed one with my muzzy yesterday too. Not much deer movement so I slammed him with my .50cal, also saboted bullets with 150g powder (three 50g pellets). He went straight down.

 

[Mark 1911]

Nice! Congratulations!

That's a really black looking yote.

I killed one with my muzzy yesterday too. Not much deer movement so I slammed him with my .50cal, also saboted bullets with 150g powder (three 50g pellets). He went straight down.

Looks even more black in person, really dark, black and silver. I will post another picture after I get the mount back from the taxidermist.

 

[JeremiahJohnson]

 

[JeremiahJohnson]

Shot mine at 10:30, guess the yotes were moving mid day. Too bad the deer weren't.

 

[Mark 1911]

That's a big dog! Nice job JJ! It's been a while since I've seen a large one like that, but I've seen some large tracks in the same area where I hunt deer, which may explain why the deer seemed scarce this past weekend.

 

[GunSlinger]

Nice looking yotes guys. I have seen a black and silver yote only once and I swear it looked more like a wolf especially size wise. That was over three years ago and I haven't seen it since.

There are a lot of yotes here in Brown county this year. Maybe because the deer population is up as well, but I've heard that quite a few yotes have been taken so far. All the folks I know around the county will take a yote whenever they see one. It seems to help keep them in check. I haven't been able to get a shot on any so far this year...but that will change I'm sure.

Congrats on your first yote Mark1911!! Good looking coyote! He will make an excellent mount, please post a pic when it's 'stuffed'!

 

[halfmileharry]

Good shooting guys. Keep 'em bloody.

 

[TGUNTER]

Those are very nice looking coyotes it never gets old shooting them. Now I am motivated to go out this weekend with the predator call.

 

[Cpt Caveman]

There are a lot of yotes here in Brown county this year. Maybe because the deer population is up as well,

I don't know about your deer season so far but as far as I can tell its the coyote numbers that are up. Deer numbers are down in BC. I've seen 5 deer all season. Its just not normal. There's been just as many coyote sightings as deer this year on my place.
We are gonna hit the predators once deer is out.

 

[sparky32]

I can agree on the numbers being up I've taken 3 this deer season, 2 in just one morning. I have never seen so many in all the years being out. I'm not sure why but they have been going nuts around my house to, much more than normal. Funny thing is I passed on the last one I saw at around 8am not to ruin my deer hunt and it came back 10 minutes later so I believe it had a death wish .

 

[MattBrewer]

Cool looking 'Yote!

 

[sparky32]

This was the one from last week that i let go and then came back lol

 

[JeremiahJohnson]

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This was the one from last week that i let go and then came back lol

Nice! It may be time to invest in some calls and get out after deer season. My son has calls, but he has them with him at Rose. I need my own.

Here's one I took earlier in the year:

 

[Mark 1911]

Well the guy who runs Realistic Taxidermy (in Lowell) told me that he's trapped, killed, and/or mounted over 2000 coyotes in his day and out of all of those he has only seen 3 dark ones like mine. Told me he was jealous. So I think I unknowingly by chance took something rare. I was almost going to let this one lay, but when I showed it to my buddy after end of legal deer hunting hours, he talked me into keeping it. Glad I did.

Didn't like the only snarling stance mount he had because it was crouched down and wouldn't show the nice white patch on the breast. So opted for a stance standing on all fours with head raised as if scanning the territory ahead, mouth open, teeth showing, sort of a panting look, as if after running a long ways.

 

[JeremiahJohnson]

Well the guy who runs Realistic Taxidermy (in Lowell) told me that he's trapped, killed, and/or mounted over 2000 coyotes in his day and out of all of those he has only seen 3 dark ones like mine. Told me he was jealous. So I think I unknowingly by chance took something rare. I was almost going to let this one lay, but when I showed it to my buddy after end of legal deer hunting hours, he talked me into keeping it. Glad I did.

Man that's AWESOME! That'll be a cool mount.

 

[Mark 1911]

Man that's AWESOME! That'll be a cool mount.

Thanks! Nice consolation for not harvesting a deer last weekend. Really looking forward to getting it back.

 

[trailrider]

Thats a cool looking yote. Buddy of mine smoked 2 black ones a few years ago. Made for neat pelts. Congrats

 

[goldtrigger]

Congrats on the fine looking yote!

 

[roadrunner681]

Looks even more black in person, really dark, black and silver. I will post another picture after I get the mount back from the taxidermist.

ive never seen one that color i thought it was a wolf at first. nice shot