B@C coyote skull! Lets measure em up!

[bucklucky]

I was denkin around today and was measuring a cougar skull and thought well heck, I will measure my biggest yote skull. It measured at a whopping 11 7/16. Thought if anyone else kept any of there yote skulls we could measure and see what is a big yote skull. So far mine is the biggest

[wastickslinger]

I have killed a few biggens but I just hang them on a fence post or let em lay. I dont even like to touch them.

I wonder what the record skull would be.

[cascademountainhunter]

how do you measure them?
i got a few coyote skulls.

[bucklucky]

Just like measureing a bear or cougar, basically use calipers and get the length from the back of the shull to the front bone above the teeth and then the width of the skull at the widest point looking straight down from the top. I will take a couple pics and post them.

[bucklucky]

Here are the 2 measurements you take and add together. Take the measurements to the nearest 1/16th. Length plus width = score.

[cascademountainhunter]

what could i use if i dont have calipers?
im tryin to think of somthing.
unless i just do my best with a tape measure.

[bucklucky]

A peice of wire that will bend and stay where you bend it. Bend it like my caliper.

[billythekidrock]

If you don't have calipers you can put the back of the skull against a piece of wood - on top of a piece of paper - and mark the length and width then add them up.

[robodad]

Lay it on a white sheet of paper with a cloth tape under and snap a picture. That way you will have both the measurements and some pictures !! 

[cascademountainhunter]

i did the paper way and got 11.5 inches on one in my room.
some time this week i will measure more at my grandpas and tell ya the biggest one.
ill find some wire and use that at grandpas.

[JoshT]

The one I shot in January scores 11 1/8... unless there's a deduction for a broken upper canine tooth. She also had the best hide I've seen on a WA coyote in at least 5 years.

Dog:


Skull:

[tlbradford]

Let me know if you guys want some coyote skulls this year, and I'll toss the heads in the freezer for anyone to pick up in spokane.  You'll have to clean them yourself.

[WAcoyotehunter]

You guys are sick....making coyote hunting a trophy sport...sick 

[T-ROY]

If you are not using calipers, set his chin on a book and you probably gain a 1/4 inch. notice how the calipers are at an angle on the length measurement. your not getting that little extra with his shull flat 

[ivarhusa]

I will write up more details in a fresh topic to bring up some questions I had, but I measured my "coyote #2" (not for the day, total) and came up with 11 7/8".  Woot!  It wasn't a 32# male.