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I trapped commercially for several years to supplement my farm income, back in the late '70s and early '80s. Fur prices were very strong back then, but the bottom fell out in the mid '80s and have never recovered from it. Most likely never will.
I've called in lot's of predators and Coyotes for over 45 years and shot many, usually singles, but some doubles.....mainly with 00 or 000 buck. Sold lot's of hides weekly and did quite well during the 70's and 80's like Stan said, a very good gun money fund, until the anti's ruined the fur market..... I haven't seen one yet out West that appeared cross bread with any dogs, but the Indians do speak of a rare "Coy-dog".............. the big bottle brush tail is the Coyotes signature feature...... Here the typical Coyote runs 4 to 5 feet in length with coloring as pictured on this hide........food souces normally dictate size....... they are fast, fleet, smart and can out maneuver any dog.......they commonly kill small dogs and all cats near residential areas......    Best,
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It's not all as cut and dried as most of the writers would have us believe.
SRH Exactly.........!........ ... 4. What one reads in sporting publications is far from gospel, experience is a far better teacher. ... Or, as John Gierach wrote (I paraphrase) on "Expertising", over twenty years back in Sex, Death and Flyfishing: When someone says, "it must be true - I read it in a book", remember that the guy writing the book probably knows more about writing (and getting paid for it) than he does about what he's writing about. ... That, and the three cardinal rules of experitising are "be vague, so all eventualities can be accomodated in your opinion, leave the car door open, and leave the motor running." Those are useful precepts to apply to any expertising and opinion. To them, I will add that there is no such thing as a provably false opinion. Every opinion is equally true. The difference is that some opinions are more widely accepted than others. This flows from the nature of opinion: an opinion is the product of a person taking his selection from a set of facts and giving those facts varying weights as he runs them through a black box inside his head, whence comes the product known as his opinion.
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I am on a lease in West Texas and often times right at daylight or a little thereafter a group of coyote in one canyon will howl and shortly thereafter a group from a second canyon will howl, and it seems to progress down the line from one canyon to the next. After witnessing this morning splendor on several occasions it appears to me these various groups of coyote are trying to communicate with one another?? It is really cool and I often times will just stop and listen to this spectacle of nature (and at the same time be glad I'm not at work). On one cold morning in Texas a couple of years ago a rather large and mangy coyote ran out in front of my Tennessee Walking horse....well, we ran this coyote down and I shot it with my bird gun with bird shot and killed it(off the back of the horse). I think it may have been sick because normally I think a horse would have a hard time running a coyote down. But it was fun and something I think I will remember even when I'm an old man.
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Chuck and Stan, I trapped the first black-and-orange coyote about 25 years ago but there are more of that size and coloration now than the coyote trapped and snared here 30-35 years ago which were small, grayish, maybe 15-20 pounds, sometimes little bigger than a good-sized fox. Chuck, your picture is more like our the first coyotes which arrived in Nova Scotia in the 70s, elegantly framed compared to the current big beer-hall bouncers.
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