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nfh · Sep 23, 2020

Quite the interesting night. Trying some new hunting grounds that hold some decent bucks. I havent been able to archery hunt until this last Sunday. Fractured my hand a few weeks ago. Finally healed to shoot my bow. Day 2 they cut the corn feild which pushed the bucks across the river to cover which is my old stomping grounds.

Tonight this coyote came in at 600 yards. 10 min later he presented a perfect 30 yard shot. He went 10 yards and was done. I kept sitting on the haystack. Several does came in 7 minutes later and dropped one in her tracks at 15 yards.

The coyote was once trapped. He chewed a good 3 inches off his front leg. So my extra doe tag is filled. Now to fill my general hopefully soon so i can hunt Montana end of oct.

Ohhh the coyote stunk like hell to. Was horrible

Blank · Sep 23, 2020

Heading over next week. I have two extra WT doe tags. Freezer run with the boom stick.

SS! · Sep 23, 2020

Congrats! Glad a bear didn’t get ya!

hornkiller · Sep 24, 2020

nice I dont think the broken hand messed with your accuracy!

BuzzH · Sep 24, 2020

Nice.

Leg on that coyote was more than likely shot off rather than from a trap.

wytex · Sep 24, 2020

Could have easily been trapped as well, they will chew them right off.

BuzzH · Sep 24, 2020

wytex said:
Could have easily been trapped as well, they will chew them right off.

Very, very, very seldom...as in one out of several thousand that are trapped a year. Usually the leg has to break first before they chew them off in a trap. Toes will wring off, but even thats not real, real common.

Talk to any aphis government trapper or try to remember the last time you found a coyote leg in a trap.

Plus, pretty high up the leg for one to chew their foot off that's in the trap... that one lost his leg about at the knee.

When was the last time you trapped a coyote that high up on the leg?

nfh · Sep 24, 2020

Makes me wonder how long ago his foot was injured. Looked plenty healed and as you can see in the picture. The hair grew out nice by the injury.

I wonder how his mouse/rabbit skills got after the injury. Plus could the yote take down a fawn?

When I first saw him at 600 yards he was cruising very fast. At 200 yards I noticed he had the limp

BuzzH · Sep 24, 2020

As a professional coyote hunter I know told me one time, "A coyote on 3 legs is about 1/2 a mile per hour slower than one on 4." That conversation happened just about 5 minutes after I shot one in the front leg, about like the one in your picture.

He's right...

nfh · Sep 24, 2020

1/2 mph slower, wow that's actually pretty amazing. I stub my toe and I loose all speed

Cahunter805 · Sep 24, 2020

Congrats on the double! Good shooting bud!

junior · Sep 24, 2020

Nice! Those coyote are crazy string jumpers if they sense your near!
The whitey should eat good.?

sjhgraysage · Sep 24, 2020

Good shooting, congrats. Glad you are healing well.
I don't think I have ever been around a dead coyote that didn't stink.

DoubleDropMuley · Sep 24, 2020

Great evening sounds like to me!!!

wytex · Sep 25, 2020

BuzzH said:
Very, very, very seldom...as in one out of several thousand that are trapped a year. Usually the leg has to break first before they chew them off in a trap. Toes will wring off, but even thats not real, real common.

Talk to any aphis government trapper or try to remember the last time you found a coyote leg in a trap.

Plus, pretty high up the leg for one to chew their foot off that's in the trap... that one lost his leg about at the knee.

When was the last time you trapped a coyote that high up on the leg?

Whatever Buzz, I'm speaking from my experience. Been trapping since 1984. Don't see it often but it happens. Lots of ways to catch a leg that high up, but I'll defer to your expertise in trapping as well I guess.

mmwb · Sep 25, 2020

Hence swivels on the trap and chain. I've trapped awhile too. It is rare. The only animals I've ever see chew on themselves in a trap have been skunks. Others can and do, especially if the swivels don't work and the animal breaks the bone in a spin. Then it might keep twisting and wring it off. 3" is pretty high.

We don't know. Congrats on the tripod yote, regardless of how it got demoted form a quad to a tri.

BuzzH · Sep 25, 2020

It happens, yes, but so rarely its not even worth talking about. Usually an odd circumstance.

No, there isn't many ways to catch a coyote up at the knee in a trap unless, perhaps, you're using wolf/lion traps on coyotes...which makes as much sense as a soup sandwich. Even a number 4 newhouse (google it) generally doesn't catch them that high.

Even then, the probability of a coyote chewing their leg off in a trap is about powerball odds...

Even trapping animals with fragile legs like beavers in legholds, I've had very few wring-offs and their weight/body size to bone ratio/leg size make them wayyyyy more vulnerable to wring-offs.

But, hey, what would I know about trapping?

7 day run:

5 day run:

BuzzH · Sep 25, 2020

mmwb said:
Hence swivels on the trap and chain. I've trapped awhile too. It is rare. The only animals I've ever see chew on themselves in a trap have been skunks. Others can and do, especially if the swivels don't work and the animal breaks the bone in a spin. Then it might keep twisting and wring it off. 3" is pretty high.

We don't know. Congrats on the tripod yote, regardless of how it got demoted form a quad to a tri.

Bingo...^^^

nfh · Sep 26, 2020

This is why i like my extra doe tags. Jerky!!!!!!! Seasoned up with some cure,favorite spices coated with brown sugar. Then to sit for 36 hours in my favortite sauce. Now to wait. Then dehydrate and smoke. It must taste good. Usaully the family is like vultures when its done. Last time a fellow worker stole some out of my lunch box. Luckily he is a good friend so i let it slide