Ramblings and Such From Hunting Coyote

Airedale56; after reading up a little bit on melanistic coyotes it makes sense that they are more prevalent in the eastern and southern U.S. They are more common where hybridization has taken place and the thought is that it's from a cross with red wolves or dogs, and it was along the east coast that the red wolf was reintroduced several years ago. I am glade that you posted the pictures of them as well as Buck posting his catches it gave me more reasons to do a bit more studying lol as if I need a reason!
 
Airedale56 said:
Here is a pair of NW Georgia coyotes from about 2015 or so.

I've never seen a melanistic coyote on the hoof.
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Wow, this is the first I have heard of black colored coyotes. We don't have those in California.
I see them run around my neighborhood here and there, but if I saw a black one, I would probably mistaken it for a dog. lol.
 
TGYcustom said:
Wow, this is the first I have heard of black colored coyotes. We don't have those in California.
I see them run around my neighborhood here and there, but if I saw a black one, I would probably mistaken it for a dog. lol.
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We've had them for as long as I can remember them... back in early 80's.
 
Been raining for last two days and was much needed.the critter movement has slowed significantly. We did have a bit of a surprise this morning.

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Thanks

Buck
 
Airedale56 said:
Here's a taxidermy coyote I saw last Thursday in Colorado.
The handwritten sign identified it as a coyote, anyway.
All that marijuana smoke down south must have some negative effect on their DNA.
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Looks like a German shepherd body with so homemade head.
What are you doing in Calorado brother ?
 
A little castor goes a long way in lure as a disbursing agent. When I used it to make caster scent mounds for beaver trapping, I would dissolve it using bever urine the same as the beavers do. I did add a small amount of preservative to it, so it didn't go bad in my storage of it.
 
Propylene glycol, so it didn't dry out, boric acid or sodium nitride so it didn't get rancid. Most of the time it was boric acid as I used that and flux when soldering to keep the gold or silver clean, when doing jewelry repair for a jeweler friend. I had a lot of different training as I started working young in life and was anal retentive about how to do things better. So I studied a lot of different things and asked people who did different things to teach me a little about doing it, but also a lot of the time I just observed and kept out of the way. So many people think if a little bit will do more will be better that's not the case here for sure. And when you are making your scent mound it's the same, I would make my mud mound and then find a small twig about an 1/8 inch in diameter and 2 inches long dip it in my castor then lay it on my scent mound. The location of the mound close to where they are traveling and not far from the water's edge but high enough not to be affected by water levels changing. I never tore out the dam unless it was stopping irrigation of a crop. As with all of my trapping I tried to not make much sign that I had been there just my scent posts of the animal not me. I always said that I wanted to act like that if I was caught by the animal in their area they would shoot me. But I had one guy that didn't like that saying, he didn't understand that it was just saying leave as little sign of you being there as you can!
 

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