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Other Hunting => Coyote, Small Game, Varmints => Topic started by: HoofsandWings on July 03, 2019, 10:31:15 AM

Title: All tan coyote?
Post by: HoofsandWings on July 03, 2019, 10:31:15 AM: I am sitting at my desk and just outside of the front porch is an all tan coyote. Head to tail. Is this coloration unusual?
Title: Re: All tan coyote?
Post by: AWS on July 03, 2019, 03:45:28 PM: If it is actually completely tan not just furred out yet, yes it is pretty rare.

I saw one coloured like a golden retriever, saw him twice while coyote hunting and didn't pull the trigger because I thought it was someone's bird dog until it turned and bailed out it was during pheasant season out in the Desert Wildlife area.. Thick sage country so there was no shot after he bailed.
Title: Re: All tan coyote?
Post by: Thermal Predator Control on July 04, 2019, 05:30:54 PM: Where do you live? Most coyots look like crap rite now, most likely this coyot has rubbed off its winter coat and your seeing the beginning of a new coat starting. Lol
Title: Re: All tan coyote?
Post by: HoofsandWings on July 06, 2019, 04:51:49 PM: A few hundred yards from Puget Sound.
Yesterday, it looks like he jumped over a 4 foot high gate into the back yard.
I think he was checking out the heron in neighbor's back yard. It is plastic, but looks real enough.
Title: Re: All tan coyote?
Post by: Eric M on July 06, 2019, 06:22:38 PM: The coyotes on the west side of the state are browner even in January/February at least the ones ive been able to call in. Seems they get more gray silver once you are in or east of the Cascades.
Title: Re: All tan coyote?
Post by: HoofsandWings on July 10, 2019, 04:17:28 PM: With notes here about the mess bullets make, I am taking my 270 and using solid bullets. No fragmentation.