What to do with yote?

[huntandjeep]

if you dont like coyote helper there also coyote shake and bake

[lokidog]

did you really try some yote backstrap??  I've always wondered  what it would taste like thinking shoot can it really be that bad? I enjoy just about any type of meat i've ever tried.     What would you compare the taste too??? 

Dog crap wrapped with week old hunting socks, from early archery... the socks were what the bacon turned into.      The best part was I had a city bumpkin friend over for that one.     We at least had duck to eat as well.

In defense of the coyote, it was eating a dead beaver when I shot it while duck hunting, maybe a deer fed one tastes better.

[ivarhusa]

I suggest going through the experience of skinning and tanning (or have tanned commercially). Just as hunting is an experience, so is processing the hides.  I've butchered a few, and "done decent" on a few. There is no substitute for practice. I aspire to successfully hunt for bobcat, and would like a good hide taken off of it.  Practicing on coyotes will get me ready for taking care of a cat.

Now, realistically, I may not get good enough to make a top quality mount from my work, but I aspire.  Ask questions on the forum, and you will learn. (Bless Michelle Nelson.)

[high country]

skin 'em and tan the hide, looks nice hanging in the living room, or there is a guy in Colfax who buys whole coyotes for $20 each.

squirt me some contact info please.....I tend to stack a bunch up this time of year.

[high country]

i just bomb em and then whack crows and maggies off of them. a coyote kill is ho hum, but a trifecta, now that is where its at!

It is illegal to kill magpies!  Why would you anyways?  They do not harm game populations and they're not much of a challenge off a carcass.   

not illegeal if they are concentrated in numbers, in the act of depredation, damaging crops, wildlife or property. in the age of bird flu, it is the responsible thing to do....keep them moving along instead of sitting around making each other deathly ill. 

when maggies come to a carcass, they are thick, and dang near as wary as a crow.

[lokidog]

Sorry to be the negative guy but none of your "if" statements is met by 20 or so magpies being on a carcass.  All this sort of thing does is give hunters a bad image for randomly killing things.

Legal Status

Magpies are protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. However, under the Code of Federal Regulations, “a Federal permit shall not be required to control . . . magpies, when found committing or about to commit depredations upon ornamental or shade trees, agricultural crops, livestock, or wildlife, or when concentrated in such numbers as to constitute a health hazard or other nuisance . . .”from: http://wdfw.wa.gov/living/magpies.html

If you have a bunch hanging out in your yard or barn or orchard, this seems to be an OK time to control them.  I would argue that magpies on a carcass are simply doing their "job".

Magpies help control pest insects such as grasshoppers and tent caterpillars, and also “clean up” dead animals and garbage scattered by other animals. Other species of birds and mammals often use unoccupied magpie nests. from above as well.

Sorry to threadjack but shooting things simply for the sake of killing something is one of my biggest disappointments with some hunters.

[high country]

sorry dissapoint you, just another east vs west view on pradators. you may not have to deal with them where you are....here, they are like flies on a fresh turd.....and a pain in the hiney. you gonna stand up for starlings too, cause plenty of them hit the dirt over here too.

[lokidog]

Starlings are an introduced, non-native species and are in a completely different category from native wildlife.  If you choose to illegally shoot magpies, that is your choice to do so, you just might not want to announce it in a public forum.  I am now done with this topic.

[WAcoyotehunter]

I don't care to leave a coyote in the field if it has value.  I have sold a number of them and had several tanned.  If the hide is good i take it, if its rubbed or in any way nasty they stay in the field.  I don't shoot magpies, but will shoot crows if I get the chance.  Crows are tough on nests...

[ribka]

Use the fur to tie flies. Makes a great crayfish pattern and use hair on tail to tie clousers.
I used to skin out and sell hides when prices were better.

[npaull]

lokidog is right on with regards to magpies and starlings (don't shoot one, shoot the other).

Also, IMO it's gross, unethical and anti-hunting to shoot an animal to "let it rot."

Use the hide, use the meat, take the teeth, something... or don't shoot them.

[phishisgroovin]

i need new gloves. someone show me a couple winter coyote puppies, their hides are out the correct size already lol!

[dirty24d]

lokidog is right on with regards to magpies and starlings (don't shoot one, shoot the other).

Also, IMO it's gross, unethical and anti-hunting to shoot an animal to "let it rot."

Use the hide, use the meat, take the teeth, something... or don't shoot them.

There is a reason that theres no bag limit on the yoters.. Its because they overpopulate and and wreak havoc on the fawns. Therefore in this case it is not really a bad thing to whack one and let it rot. I would take the hide if it was nice but thats about it. If you post your address I'll send you the meat from everyone i shoot this year!             

[Machias]

Personally I hate leaving fur in the field, if it's not mangy it gets skinned and either tanned or sold.  Even though prices are pretty poor, it's still a box of shells or some gas money.  To me it's worth the few minutes to work the hide.  I don't have issues though with guys who shoot them and leave them, but they are leaving $15 to $20+ sitting in the field.  It's not that much work to skin one, flesh it and stretch it. 

[wastickslinger]

I always hear that they are worth $20-25 but the most I have ever got is $10.