Curious if anyone has ever done it? Heard of ones for coon and muskrat but not for coyotes

An entire year yes I've heard of it. ADC types. Just the fur season I haven't heard of that.

Still planning on doing it as a solo endeavor. I've done it as part of a team , incorporating several methods, but never by myself and trapping only.

That'd be a tough finish line to cross. Fur season typically isn't long enough. Say you had three months of "good" pelts.... you'd need an average of better than 11 coyotes each day, every day to get to 1000. Whew. That's a lotta family units.

And you wouldn't add to the numbers much with ADC work because predator control aspect isn't about big numbers per se.
As an example, I have traps in the ground now (as I do about 8 months a year) but I'm actually trapping for specific coyotes that need to be culled versus running miles of traps on a fur line after various coyotes.
This current ranch has a pair of dogs as near as I can tell that maraud about once a week, killing game species about once every two weeks. They need to go asap. Trouble is typical in the ADC sphere.... owner/rancher has had repeated trappers and predator callers in and outta here after these coyotes for about 5 months... and now I'm hired. You talk about tricky doggies. They were giggling in the bushes as they saw my truck and trailer pull in I swear.
But I will show them a coyote!! Or two if the Lord is willing!!

I checked my spreadsheet for a solid year (2018) where I trapped 326 coyotes in 8+ months;
50% came in 5 weeks on a fur line...
And the other 50% came from 7 months of ADC jobs.

You need to be a fur trapper for the numbers

Mark

You would have to have the coyotes to do it. I think it would be pretty tough for one person to do right now. I think it could be done though.

Some of the Government guys had pretty big numbers years ago.

There are several in the plains of Canada that have been there or dang close. Corse their season is longer than ours in the lower 48 too, which helps immensely! Like Mark pointed out, to maintain an eleven yote a day average through even a sixty day seaso would be superhuman, and with the current numbers of yotes in this country in all the good coyote hatcherys would be basically impossible! At my age , I am very happy to maintain a two to three a day avg during the times I'm trapping, but used to do better that tat when a lot younger!

Marty Senneker from Canada comes to mind.

Yep Mike, he was one I was thinking of. He has been within spitting distance of that number several times! Makes two or three hundred sound like childs play, but we all know how much work that is. Larry is spot on, and it will be long after the present boom on yotes before anyone gets close to that number again!

I know of 2 guys that have hit the 700 mark and routinely do 500 . But the question I have Is Why would you want to LOL

It seems to me that trying to get to those numbers would take most of the fun out of it.

Pud Long from years ago I believe hit once for came close

Beav, I don't always agree with you, but we are lock step on this one! Numbers don't mean as much as they used to, we got nothin to prove anymore!

I'm thinking if you started in North Dakota early in the season and worked your way south doing 20 hour days for 5 months you might have a 50/50 chance. Lol

Mike

Not possible in the south. I've heard of a trapper or two that made it to 300 plus in a year.....not fur season. I ran at very hard when live marketing a few years back and didnt break 100...caught 87 in 60 days. But that was while working a full time job too.

You would most likely have to state hop to pull it off. The number of hours per day that would have to be invested to get to those numbers would also take a few years off your life.

1000÷20=50

Never said it'd be easy. Lol

Craig O'Gorman has to over 1000 a year several times. Robert E Long = Pud Long did in 1942. Frank Martain out of Texas did it once I think. Chance Groom did one year of 1000 coyotes too i think

I have to agree with Swamp Wolf 100% NOT possible in the south . Last year from Feb 12 th to Oct 14th I caught 307 coyotes. To MY knowledge , I run some of the largest tracts in the state of Alabama. I have around 70,000 acres in 1 county. AND I trap in about 14 counties total. I will say I average 150 traps a day . Run from daylight till 4 or 5 pm some days. 80 to 90 miles of windsheild time on some jobs.Every day. Its tuff, in the hot weather, dont see how ANYONE could break 1000 in south even if he had ALL the land he wanted, specially with 24 hour check laws in most states

Daily checks should bring the numbers up, a trap with yesterdays catch still in it can't catch another. In a contest you might ought to go to twice daily checks. Windshield time is time wasted, mop up an area and move camp.

A guy that catches and processes over 600 in a 2 1/2 month fur season shouldn't have too much trouble knocking off another 400 in the remaining 7 months of a year. I think it goes back to the question of "who wants to?" or "why would any one want to?"

If you put up enough money or other reward, I bet several could do it this year. Guarantee $100 per head up to 500 coyotes and $200 per for the next 500 and $500,000 for the first winner and you will be surprised at how many coyotes you will buy.