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Got out Friday after work and called in a pair. The male came in first and the female arrived within less than a minute. The male was bigger than usual. The female was not a young of the year. She's an adult, but the male is so big she looks smaller than she actually is. I'm going to go ahead and skin this male out as his fur is good. Unfortunately the female was torn up by the bullet enough that I don't want to mess with skinning her out.


This photo shows them side by side for comparison. Man, it felt good to be calling with snow on the ground again. It was one long, hot, dry summer.

Awesome -

Way to go. Got me itching to get out after them, however does not happen until after our November deer season here.

Dat is a whopper! Im gonna try to get out after antelope in the next couple days...varmint call is already in my pack....

Nice coyotes...What did you shoot them with?????

WCH, I shot them with my trusty new Ruger Predator 22-250. I'm 13 for 13 with this rifle and no escapee's.

Hero shot for the rifle.

Nice! That one is huge! Too cool and nice rifle. We don't even have snow up here yet!

What's that white stuff? Haven't seen any of that in a long while. Nice shooting. That male is HUGE

Good looking yotes Troy!

Nice dogs!


Travis

Damn nice dogs.

This guy claims 53 lbs on this one.....





Yours must be pushing 100.....

Yeah...Ive shot LOTS of them over 50# in that case....

Was actually thinkin' the OP's coyote would hit #50....or awfully close....

aalf, that's pretty funny. Here's one the bigger coyotes I've shot in a while and he didn't break 45 lbs. Methinks the guy in the photo you posted is using some kind of metric system or something. Side note...digital scales and laser rangefinders make liars out of lots of people.

Me too.....

In reality, I've never broke 40.....

Love those big mature dogs...... this one went 45+ on a digital fish scale....

allf, the heaviest I've weighed went 38 pounds. The big coyote I said wouldn't break 45 lbs, I didn't weigh, but he was bigger and heavier than the 38 lbs coyote I weighed. He was what I call a two hander. In other words it took me "two hands" to hold him up for a picture. I can curl a 40 lbs barbell with one arm, but I couldn't lift this coyote with one arm. (I can't curl 45 lbs without breaking form.) So I figure he was over 40, but I seriously doubt he would break 45 lbs.

Dogshooter, NICE YOTE! What caliber is the rifle? Looks like a Remington BDL.

I've actually only ever weighed two, due to various reasons or locale, and both went 36.

That big boy's a beauty, and furred up nice.

You in eastern Mt?

Central MT. I get what you mean about only weighing a couple coyotes. Most of the time by the time I get home it's dark, I'm tired, and screwing around with weighing coyotes is not at the top of my agenda.

I shot one once that I swore was 55 lbs....but that was before digital scales, while ignorant bliss was still in effect....