I'll prove my point with pictures this winter.
It's not like I'm blowing them away with a load of double O buck In a 10 gauge.

Just yankin your chain Beav.
I don't often shoot to dispatch,but when I do I use a 22.
I skinned a wolf dispatched with a 410.Right between the eyes.Big mess-worse than clubbing a seal.

Why's everybody always pickin on Beav? I skinned one today that was hit in the neck with a broad head! Almost healed up, it's about a three inch cut. Maybe a two blade rage??? Time to brake out the dental floss! Oh it was a slug that dispatched this one. Not recommend...LOL

Well you don't shot them at 2' you stand back 20 feet or so. LOL

I can stand the pressure James. LOl

Putting a coyote down is pretty simple with no gun and no blood .

Here's a couple pictures of unwashed coyotes. Never washed one. Not bragging but I have had a top lot coyote and my average is well above sale average mostly every year with all coyotes being sent in. Yes I am lucky to have great coyotes.






TBN this is not directed at you. Just information on why I like the death ray and how I clean my coyotes

I foot hold early in the season then use power Rams. With power Rams 99% of coyotes are doa with minimal or no blood.
Death ray is great for lots of reasons
- can check feet and release unwanted catches very easy
- puts down all animals very quickly if needed
-very light and easy to carry in a skidoo,quad,boat or truck(I have a two footer)
-made very well out of mostly stainless steel
-I could go on but I think you get the picture


I clean coyotes that have a little blood on them with a spray bottle 3/4 water 1/4 bleach. Couple sprays with the pelt hanging and the blood runs right off the tips of the hair and onto the floor. Couple wipes with a dry rag and blood is gone. After the yotes are dry I brush them all out very well. Then I have a tub with borax and each coyote (that needs it mostly red crotches)gets a quick borax scrub and like bctomcat pictures show it cleans them up great. They get a quick couple shakes to get the borax out and they are hung up till they go to auction. Being from Canada we don't have many country buyers so mine all go to Nafa. Their drumming system will take any crud out and you would not recognize your coyotes after they come out. If you are not shipping to auction it could be different for how you want to finish your coyotes.

Please tell me what Desth Ray is??? When I trapped, I trIed many different dispatch methods and found shooting with a .22 CB in the chest was the best way for coyote. I'm new to this site and after teaching for 44 years, I realize that "it's always school!"

A tap,on the nose and standing behind the front legs may work on a fox, but not on a big Wisconsin coon. Learned that the hard way.

Learning something new every day.

Muskrat Love

Saskbone I said unclean coyotes. Drumming or washing. I understand all that but I want my fur to be the best it can be so I have options. Funny the ones that catch 20 a year are worried about blood. Try hand skinning and washing 150 to 200. I will use a 4 cent .22 shell and a 5 minute wash compared to the 20 grand in rabies shots.

www.lptraplinesupply.com Here you go. Read all about it.

When you start washing your coyotes you find out how dirty they really are. Wash water turns brown even on coyote that look fairly clean. So if your going to wash anyway for dirt, no need to worry about blood.

Most the time I angle it through the shoulder, maybe 1-2 of 3 leak

tbn,
Shouldn't make fun of us 20 a year guys. I'm sure we are in the majority. Also sure we'd all like to catch 100. But everyone cares about good, clean fur when selling.

Washing fur, unless extremely dirty, I find to be a waste of time and effort as the drumming by the auction house cleans the dirt out of the fur before it is graded. As far as serious blood stains go, they are easily taken care of with minimal hand washing of heavy clots and then with borax after the pelt has been boarded and dried. In the past I washed my coyotes but have never noted where washing gave me a better price and I most always do better than the sale average without washing.

Just a lot of wasted energy. + I'm betting more coyotes become tainted due to washing and not getting those hides dry before boarding.

Exactly nothing worst than a missed soapy spot that stayed wet and than the hair slips and you've got yourself a bald spot. It happens and it's not worth the risk.

Not here, you forget i was a taxidermist for 12 years. Aka Taxidermy By Nature,Tbn,you get the picture. Not making fun of anyone,I am just saying as before even without the blood,they are generally 3 buckets of dirty water that will come out of those clean looking coyotes. I would hate to see all of the called and shot,snowmobiled coyotes that don't get cleaned.

Notice my name? I wash them bloody or not.
They live in the dirt. Northern folks trapping in mostly snow don't have it quit as bad as farm land trappers, just how I see it. I skin, turn the ears and flesh. Then turn fur out, put on a board,pin. 5 minutes with the gas powered leaf blower and it is DRY. Turn and proceed as usual.
It's like any thing in life, the more you do it, the easier and quicker it gets.

Never had it happen. But after washing, I put the hides through a "air fluff" cycle which is cold air, no heat. They are dry and on the boards in an hour or less.

I shoot mine behind the front leg with a .22 and rarely have problems with blood at the site of later

All the dust and dirt that makes your water dirty can all be blown out with an air compresser when they are dry and off the boards without going thru all the extra time and work to wash them.Plus you wont be removing the natural oils in the fur that makes them shine after blowing.
Same as beaver.

Spot on Boco.