Beautiful coyote. Congrats

A buddy raises fox that look identical to that. His are indeed bigger than the wild fox we have here. It could be you’ve actually got a fox farm escapee.

To take it a step further, we sold some tanned ranched fox at the Minnesota Trappers booth at the Steele county fair that were identical to yours.

Thanks for all the congrats and comments. I have been selling my bobcats, fox, and a few coyote to a local taxidermist so I will probably be doing some trading with him this year to get this one mounted. I'm sure it will be several months but I will post when I get it back.

Best looking black coyote I’ve ever seen.

I agree ! Best looking black coyote I’ve seen . Take lots of pictures and then sell the darn thing, pictures will outlast the mount anyway .

Yep it’s a beaut!

Love the pictures, thanks for sharing

Catch of a lifetime. Well done and congrats!

Prettiest coyote I have ever seen! Congratulations! If it was me I'd get a full body mount too. That's a once in a lifetime coyote if you ask me.

This is a continuation story, only one year later. I took a long weekend again on New Year's and set eight traps behind my house on our eight acres. I'll take my full week vacation in a couple weeks that I set out a full line on a big hunting club. Anyway, the original post last year was about this time and was on a black coyote that I caught. My wife had a neighbor tell her that they saw a black coyote a couple times this summer so I knew another one was a possibility. It rained this past Saturday but I did manage to get out between rains and stake eight traps and pre-bait some dirt holes that I dug and pre-baited the weekend before. Based on the digging I had I was pretty sure that I would do pretty good. Sunday I set the five dirt holes and three lure only flat sets. Monday morning I had three coyote and a possum but on blackie. One of them was on a gland lure flat set and the other two on dirt holes. Tuesday morning I could see blackie from the house in one of the dirt hole remakes and when I got out there I had another coyote triple. Yesterday morning I pulled them with only a coon on one of the gland lure flat sets.

I did videos instead of pictures but did take a screen shot from the video on blackie and you can see one of the others in the background. This black one is really nice with the standard black with tan undercoat and the white star chest. Nice but not nearly as pretty as last years silver tip blackie. Last years still at the taxidermist but will update when I get it back. I'll probably sell this one to a local taxidermist.

Thanks! I'll do a post in about three weeks on my big Okiecntry line.

Great catch, love the contrast with the yellow eyes and black pelt. I’ve caught 2 like that in the past. Had a rug made from the better of the 2 , and sold the other to the taxidermist.

Mount it!!! You will regret it if you don’t.

This one cost me a bundle

That is by far the prettiest coyote I've ever seen and i don't think you could do it justice with anything other than a full body mount but if you just don't have the money i think I would tan it

Beautiful yote ..congrats

Awesome. Good one

I finally got my original black coyote back a couple weeks ago. Looks pretty good to me.

Very nice!

I'm in Ind. been trapping 50 years, before we had coyotes. And that is the prettiest one I’ve ever seen. At least if the real thing holds up to the picture. I would tan or mount it. Congrats on a great catch.