I have been after this one for two years! It has killed goat kids, ducks, chickens and just about everything it could get it's teeth on. The farmer was one happy dude. I have another one I just picked up on camera and I'm going to go after it. Got to love those black coyotes.

Very cool, good luck with the second one

That's a bute!

Congrats

Few around here

Good work on a problem animal.

Why so long?

The range of this particular animal was huge. It would hit one place and move on. It might not come back for several months. The area it ranged in was nothing but hunting leases and small farms. It would roam from gut piles to carcass dump sites to hit somene's chickens and...you never knew where it was going or where it would be. Down here its not uncommon to have one in an area for a day or two, then be gone for several months before it returns.

Nice

Congratulations

That’s why you can go behind professionals and sometime immediately catch coyotes. It not that I’m better, it’s just most here set for 2-3 weeks then pull and on to the next property. You can go in behind them and use their same locations and not even have to use lure and catch sometimes within days or a couple of weeks. Southern coyotes can have a huge range and stroll through once a month or two as stated.

Good deal Gunny.I have been called on about 5 blackies in the last to 4 years and was only able to connect on one .they seem to move out of an area and not show back up for awhile.

Very cool, gonna get it tanned and keep it?

I'm going to try to home tan it. The pelt is in the freezer right now as I have a pile I need to flesh when I get the time.

Slipknot I noticed that about the black ones too. It seems that the black ones tend to roam more than a normal colored yote. I'm working with a guy who is doing his PhD on the red wolf. He is trying to see if any of the yotes in the south east are carrying Red Wolf DNA. I'm thinking the reason we see black yotes in the SE is due to either the red wolf or the Florida black wolf. Its a newer mutation which lends itself to being possible DNA related as a major mutation like color takes many many many successive generations to established itself, not a short period of time.

That a Duke or Mb trap? Cant see the pan very well. I have never seen a black coyote around here. Good job.

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It is probably a Duke, I had to look at the picture really good. I have milk crates full of traps in my Honday SxS. I just grab a trap and go with it.

Awesome looking yote. I'm glad you got it