I HATE coyotes!!!!

[Eatsleeptrap]

It's good to put them someplace the property owner will not pop them with a tractor tire or turn them into meat pudding with a rotary mower.

 

[1lessdog]

I was just curious why anyone would drag them?

To me, its just for the photo. If not where is his rifle and his gear?

 

[measure-it]

Meat pudding & tag soup.....2 of hunters' greatest culinary meals!

 

[jr2280]

I was just curious why anyone would drag them?

It’s wanton waste to leave them. It’s also courteous to the land owners that give me permission. I do euro skulls or tan tails on some if they are good.

 

[jr2280]

To me, it’s just for the photo. If not where is his rifle and his gear?

It’s between me and my truck. I always drag them out. No need to carry everything on retrieval when three stoned dead. Partner had a rifle if need be.

 

[Kurtr]

It’s wanton waste to leave them. It’s also courteous to the land owners that give me permission. I do euro skulls or tan tails on some if they are good.

There is no wanton waste on fur bearers but common sense is to make sure they are not some where it will piss the land owners off.

Wanton Waste Rules: North Dakota Game and Fish wanton waste regulations apply specifically to waterfowl, migratory game birds, and upland game (requiring reasonable efforts to retrieve edible flesh), not to furbearers like coyotes

 

[Jiffy]

Regarding fleas, I've shot ALOT of coyotes and have seldom seen fleas on them.
Red fox on the other hand...

Coyotes are so nasty fleas won’t even touch them. Coyotes have fleas, and mange, and …

They stay where they drop

 

[Rowdie]

There is no wanton waste on fur bearers but common sense is to make sure they are not some where it will piss the land owners off.

Wanton Waste Rules: North Dakota Game and Fish wanton waste regulations apply specifically to waterfowl, migratory game birds, and upland game (requiring reasonable efforts to retrieve edible flesh), not to furbearers like coyotes

That would be like retrieving praire dogs

 

[Jiffy]

Piss off the landowner…..

Ok, I digress

 

[SDMF]

2 of 3 I shot a couple weeks ago had very large birds chowing down on them <4hrs post-flatline. 3rd may have too, didn’t go check. I did go and find them, too kersploded to do anything other than let Ma Nature recycle them into bird, varmint, and rodent dung.

 

[wslayer]

It’s wanton waste to leave them. It’s also courteous to the land owners that give me permission. I do euro skulls or tan tails on some if they are good.

I think he may have been referring to if they were worth something, why drag and ruin the hide. My first thought on reading

 

[jr2280]

I think he may have been referring to if they were worth something, why drag and ruin the hide. My first thought on reading

Dragging coyotes does not harm the fur. Maybe if you pulled them backwards through thickets but I still doubt it. Head first the fur slides right through, at least in the 100s I’ve dragged. Didn’t know I did so much wrong the last 25 years. Have to come here and get dismantled by the desktop warriors I guess. I hope everyone gets out and enjoys the outdoors this weekend. Some of you grumpy buggers need it.

 

[SDMF]

Only appreciable about of hair I’ve seen pulled out of a furbearer is when a person lets lem freeze down to something. Doesn’t matter if it’s snow or the rubber mat in the back of your pickup, if they’re wet and freeze down you may lose some hair.

The most prolific predator hunter I know has a simple 2x4 wood frame with fairly “open” chicken-wire in the bed of his pickup. It keeps critters from freezing down to the pickup bed and minimizes hair loss