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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....

TFF.

Ninja scale?


Travis

Fisherman too no doubt......

That's a hodgepodge rifle... a 700 sporter in .243 bedded in an old BDL-V stock... 3-9x40 Trijicon atop. Scope was free... stock was old and has been hacked on a bit for various projects. The factory SPS stock was junk, so this one came to the rescue. Load was 70 NBT fueled by RE17 for 3600ish... as you can see in the pic, no exit. Shot was right at 300... though because of the size of the dog, I thought it was about 200... thank heavens for flat shooting rounds at coyotes.

Here's another big coyote, this one weighed 39lbs... he was taller than any dog I've ever seen...


Nice 57" Thanksgiving pelt for my main fishin' buddy Stevie...

here's one on the other end of the scale.....grin

Nicely done Troy! I carried a scale in my yote bag for years and yeah it's sort of like using a LRF and or actually putting a tape to a critter (not the rubber kind...grin)


Dober

Isn't that the lil Taco Bell dog...............

Dober

He ain't been on TV lately, has he?......

Nopers.......grin

Dober

Yeah, but Ive met you, you're only four feet tall....


Swift Fox is cool

here's one I snared in wyo, back in the day. Wish I had something in the pic for scale. cCaught him on a steep trail by his nose. Musta been haulin'ass, 'cause it broke his neck and he never even quivered....I truly think this'un would have broke 50 lbs. He was the densest, most compact, big boy I'd ever got. Major Boddiker said it was the biggest one he'd seen. And he's seed more than a few..... He also paid me $150 for him, in the round.....

I called in and killed one in Idaho in about 2002 that weighed 47 pounds. It was substantially bigger than any other mature coyote I had, or have since killed.

He was no match for the mighty .17 Remington though...

I do look forward to calling every year...It's how I got my handle.

who'da thunk......grin

Looks like the coyotes in Colorado eat well. Man, those are some nice big coyotes.

Huntsman22 love that pic of the little guy. Kit fox I presume?

Mark, I've thought about getting a digital fish scale and throwing it in my pack just to satisfy curiosity now and then. Haven't done it yet though. One of the problems is that I've found most of those fish scales are inconsistant. If anyone knows of a really good realiable compact digital scale I'd like to hear about it.

I was about to purchase one at Scheels a couple weeks back for my gambrel. Then I remembered I'm a lazy ass and I'll never use it.


Travis

Travis, that cracked me up.

prairie swift fox. Cool little canines about the size of a housecat. the state thinks they are the same as kits. they really ain't.....

here's another I found last fall. A pair of coyotes played tug-o-war......





the 2 halves were about 50 yds apart........

We have darn few red fox around here because a few too many coyotes have played tug of war with them.

That is a big'ol barrel chested coyote Troy...I wish you wouldn't have hogged all the snow, we only got a light dusting..

Major is good people... he gave me my first predator call (a songdog) when I was a kid... I called in and killed my first coyote with it the next day. Still have the call... and it's killed more than all the rest combined....

I bet all them coyotes would look a might bigger... if that hat were a pint or two smaller....

That's a big Coyote for sure. Nice!

Funny how revealing scales can be (in more ways than one).
I did a poll of how much this Cat weighed on a well known web-site filled with "experts".
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Got estimates up to 40+ with none under 30.
He weighed exactly 28.9 on the scale at my Vets office.

wow. nice babcot......

Thanks,,,, but like I said, "he was a far cry from the 40+ pound estimates".

A friend of mine told me he shot a 92 lb coyote. I wouldn't have doubted him, except he's the same guy that told me about a valley full of 30" chukar.

Jeez, I'm slow.....It finally clicked in my noggin', where I'd seen that cat pic afore in yer avatar.thump forehead.....

this tom is the biggest one I got. I like cats more than anything, but haven't lived in cat country for years. If scenarshooter checks in, he's killed some monster cats.....

hehe,,, tricked ya, huh?
That's a nice cat. Any idea what it weighed?
I'm with ya on the Cats. Fact is, I hardly ever hunt Coyotes these days.
Here's my biggest. 36lbs,, Stretched 43".

Believe it or not that 29 pounder stretched 42". To bad he was so skinny.

houndman, huh? You run only plotts?

Na,,, Mountain Cur and an old fat GSP LOL.
We're lucky to catch a Cat or two and the occasional Coon every year, but that's plenty at my age.
Unfortunatly our Cat season doesn't start untill Dec 15th and the weathers been so warm around here Coyotes wouldn't be worth much even if I wanted to chase em so I'm SOL for now.