Post by: pens fan on September 30, 2021, 08:57:04 PM
So what do you think, yote or wolf?
Post by: KFhunter on September 30, 2021, 09:00:37 PM
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Post by: Okanagan on September 30, 2021, 09:44:23 PM
I shot a 35 lb. coyote near Sumas, weighed on a scale, and have killed bigger ones. Where was this pic taken? It looks more eastern or southeastern than most places in WA. Coyotes get much bigger and heavier in the East, and there are regions in the southeast where black coyotes are more common than in the far west.
I’ve seen two black coyotes in my life, one in B.C and one right along the border near Blaine.
Post by: LDennis24 on September 30, 2021, 09:56:41 PM
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Post by: Okanagan on October 01, 2021, 11:10:11 AM
In northern BC red foxes come in many shades of color as well as red, with a lot of charcoal grey and black ones that are classed as cross foxes I presume. If you stop your vehicle on the highway north of Dease Lake, one may come and panhandle you for a handout. I also saw an all back one near Kelowna. It crossed the highway a few feet in front of my vehicle so I pulled off and glassed it as it meandered on a sunny frozen lake.
I think black foxes are far more common than black coyotes.
Post by: boneaddict on October 01, 2021, 11:43:48 AM
Post by: LDennis24 on October 01, 2021, 11:57:46 AM
Post by: HighlandLofts on October 02, 2021, 05:39:09 AM
As long as it identified as a coyote, you're good.
These days every thing can be identified as a what ever you want it to be.
I can a black version of a red fox.
Post by: jackelope on October 02, 2021, 07:31:02 AM
Post by: KFhunter on October 02, 2021, 08:02:16 AM
I know they're out there especially back east, wish we could verify for sure what this is.
Wish we had pics of its feet
Post by: JJB11B on October 02, 2021, 09:10:28 AM
Post by: LDennis24 on October 02, 2021, 10:59:47 PM
Pretty sure that’s just a color phased coyote. Not a wolf. Nothing crazy. Just a different coloring. A friend of mine shot one that was almost white a couple weeks ago over by Conconully. I’ll see if I can get his ok to share a pic. It’s super cool. Has blue eyes.
I'm gonna need to see pics of this regardless of permission... :chuckle:
Post by: Okanagan on October 03, 2021, 09:46:29 AM
A partner and I stalked and he shot a near white coyote southwest of Kamloops, BC. when it was prime in early winter. It was a female, cream white all over with baby fine hair so thick it would not lay down. The thick underfur was even finer and had a trace of pink color. The back was the same white but the tiniest tip of a few guard hairs were black, which made the pelt look like it had a sparse sprinkling of fine black pepper down the center of the back.
I’ve never handled nor seen another coyote fur like it. In Alberta I saw a near white one along the highway but couldn’t shoot it.
I’ve always wondered what the pelt would have brought at auction. It was about the peak of coyote prices decades ago. A collector who wanted to tan or mount it saw it before it was skinned, and my hunting partner took something like $200 (175?) for the unskinned carcass. His wife demanded a steak dinner from the proceeds, with our wives at the best steakhouse in Kamloops. Over the meal we decided that maybe the cost of hunting coyotes wiped out any profit.