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Coyote Hunting - From 10 Yards to over 1,000 Yards
More than one way to skin a coyote.
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<blockquote data-quote="crissmorgan" data-source="post: 795100" data-attributes="member: 49240"><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-size: 10px">I saw a link on today's Outdoor Wire, (outdoorwire.com), that mentioned fur prices going up this year, so I went and read the article. I can't remember where the fur auction was, but they said that good Western coyote hides were bringing 95 dollars. That's the best price I have ever seen so maybe the fur market is making a rebound. I live in Louisiana, in the Southern part of the state, and coyotes and other fur bearing animals never get prime here. When I was a kid growing up in North Mississippi the furs got prime and prices were pretty good too. Enough to buy myself my first car when I was 14. I had a couple of trap lines of over 30 traps and set them for anything our local fur buyer would buy. This was in the early '60's and coyotes hadn't reached this part of the state yet. I guess I am happy they didn't because I would have had to buy a bunch of new traps for them! My favorite place to shoot them here is where a local deer processor puts gut piles and unused hides from the deer he processes. It is in a remote spot on his property and the coyotes swarm there during deer season. I wait until I have all the venison I can eat in the next year and then only hunt hogs and dogs the rest of deer season. We are fortunate to have a long deer season and I usually kill at least one coyote every time I hunt that spot. I have seen over a dozen of them there at one time, but I can't shoot that fast! By the time I can reload, I rarely get a second shot. Even hogs come to the gut piles and I have gotten a couple of them too. I would love to have a place to hunt somewhere the furs get prime because the only place I can get rid of the coyote carcasses is at an alligator farm and that is way to far to drive for free. I'm too worn out in my legs to run a trap line any more, but I can still shoot good enough to kill coyotes and hogs. I'd love to get reconnected to the fur business somehow. </span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="crissmorgan, post: 795100, member: 49240"] [FONT=Arial Black][SIZE=2]I saw a link on today's Outdoor Wire, (outdoorwire.com), that mentioned fur prices going up this year, so I went and read the article. I can't remember where the fur auction was, but they said that good Western coyote hides were bringing 95 dollars. That's the best price I have ever seen so maybe the fur market is making a rebound. I live in Louisiana, in the Southern part of the state, and coyotes and other fur bearing animals never get prime here. When I was a kid growing up in North Mississippi the furs got prime and prices were pretty good too. Enough to buy myself my first car when I was 14. I had a couple of trap lines of over 30 traps and set them for anything our local fur buyer would buy. This was in the early '60's and coyotes hadn't reached this part of the state yet. I guess I am happy they didn't because I would have had to buy a bunch of new traps for them! My favorite place to shoot them here is where a local deer processor puts gut piles and unused hides from the deer he processes. It is in a remote spot on his property and the coyotes swarm there during deer season. I wait until I have all the venison I can eat in the next year and then only hunt hogs and dogs the rest of deer season. We are fortunate to have a long deer season and I usually kill at least one coyote every time I hunt that spot. I have seen over a dozen of them there at one time, but I can't shoot that fast! By the time I can reload, I rarely get a second shot. Even hogs come to the gut piles and I have gotten a couple of them too. I would love to have a place to hunt somewhere the furs get prime because the only place I can get rid of the coyote carcasses is at an alligator farm and that is way to far to drive for free. I'm too worn out in my legs to run a trap line any more, but I can still shoot good enough to kill coyotes and hogs. I'd love to get reconnected to the fur business somehow. [/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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