Hunting Washington Forum
Other Hunting => Coyote, Small Game, Varmints => Topic started by: bucklucky on May 29, 2008, 03:44:07 PM
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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 :chuckle:
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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.
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how do you measure them?
i got a few coyote skulls.
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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.
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Here are the 2 measurements you take and add together. Take the measurements to the nearest 1/16th. Length plus width = score.
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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.
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A peice of wire that will bend and stay where you bend it. Bend it like my caliper.
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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.
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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 !! :chuckle:
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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.
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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:
(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi8.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fa21%2FDDP2005%2FDSC00793.jpg&hash=4396621335c54bf2af026b8aa80fa52c36682cc4)
Skull:
(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi8.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fa21%2FDDP2005%2Fskull.jpg&hash=de9a255ae59af829133f45dd3b33165327d1ac8c)
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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.
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You guys are sick....making coyote hunting a trophy sport...sick :chuckle: :chuckle:
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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
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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.
(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fpages.pocketinet.com%2F%7Eivar%2Fphotos%2FC2_RightSide.jpg&hash=777cec1796afe9b040f15735d82ca60959474aa3)
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Custom Osteo in North Bend used to keep records. Not sure what ever happened to those records. Maybe we should start a catalog here.
Here's my largest coyote skull at 11 7/8", and a version of measuring tools I use for skulls.
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I was admiring the nice device @rcher made up for measuring skulls, and I considered making one for myself. (Who knows why.) When I went into my shop I noticed something. I could use my table saw as-is to measure skulls! OK, not conveniently or portably:
(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fpages.pocketinet.com%2F%7Eivar%2Fphotos%2FC2_measuring.jpg&hash=4e312060bc88f01713aee579f17b01a0c3b06669)
I read the number off the fence:
(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fpages.pocketinet.com%2F%7Eivar%2Fphotos%2FC2_Measure2.jpg&hash=37a3bdf56300c85410ae366e70e58f7e2ec3971a)
Call me lazy...
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Heck yeah, doesn't get much better than that. :IBCOOL:
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great, thanks charlie , now i got to save my yote skulls.the wife will just love that. :bash:
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Just giving this one a nudge since I'm a huge fan of keeping small game records, and I'm working on a MT song dog right now to add to the list.
You guys and gals have any new ones to add?
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Thanks for bringing it back up @rcher. This post always interested me. Although I'm the biggest dink yote shooter around, my friend got one last year that is an absolute donkey. It hasn't went into the bugs yet, but once it does, I will post pics.
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Cool, I'm looking forward to seeing that big'un as well.
What do you guys think about just opening this up to all small game skulls? Maybe start a new thread?
Credit goes to bucklucky for thinkin it up. :tup:
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8)
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my bobcat,hancock strain
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priceless :chuckle: :chuckle:
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Kind of a small one isn't it Rasbo??? :chuckle: :chuckle:
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:yike: I wonder if I can get my money back for my permit :chuckle:
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C'mon! That thing looks photoshopped to me. :bs:
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I think SCI keeps records on coyotes now.... :twocents:
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I think SCI keeps records on coyotes now.... :twocents:
You just yankin our chain ?? :chuckle:
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lol i am a huge skull freak but i could not keep my yote skull or pay money to have them done but they look cool.
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Here's a B&C .......??? I found
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That there is a HUGE skull :chuckle:
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:chuckle: :chuckle:
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Here's a B&C .......??? I found
what is it?
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What your skull regurgitated! :chuckle:
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Check this link out:
http://www.scifirstforhunters.org/members/RB/view_topten.cfm?specID=M151 (http://www.scifirstforhunters.org/members/RB/view_topten.cfm?specID=M151)
I believe your coyote would be #1. ;)
http://www.scifirstforhunters.org/members/RB/view_minimums.cfm (http://www.scifirstforhunters.org/members/RB/view_minimums.cfm)
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I don't know, a squirle maybe :rolleyes:
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I want to start hunting yotes for a few reasons. Something to do when I cant hunt deer or ride dirtbikes, get a tail, and mostly to get a skull. I love skulls. So far I have a bobcat, a boar, a mink and beaver. All were found. I was working in Alaska and found a huge caribo that died in a bog. I had to crawl into the bog, rip its head off and pack the stinky thing all day. Turns out stuff like that is not legal to take in Alaska, and the helicoper piolet would not let me take it >:( Great skulls guys. Hopefully soon I can add a pic of another one, maybe in the fall I can get a deer also, that would be nice.
~Buckless
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BuckLucky I was listening to the predator hunting talk cast and at the end of the interview with Al Morris he started talking about the American Predator Federation. They are going to start measuring and keeping track of skulls. Thought it was pretty cool. They are going to have all different categories including trapping and it is going to be seperated by state.
Here is a link: http://www.huntapf.org/scoring.aspx
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Cool, thanks for the link!
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bucklucky beat me to it. apparantly this new APF is keeping online records of coyote skulls. so get out yer tape measures boys!
http://huntapf.org/
--BH2BT
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great, thanks charlie , now i got to save my yote skulls.the wife will just love that. :bash:
Macerate them in the house. She will love you even more.