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Posted by Cal Taylor (Member # 199) on July 03, 2004, 02:20 PM:
I'm not sure if this really intrests anyone, but I'll post a couple pictures of a deal that I had a hard time with. I spent several days hunting this particular bunch of coyotes. They were killing every night and were dang hard to find. I walked many miles looking for this den and these coyotes. Afterwards I figured out why they were so educated.
Here is a closeup of the dog. This was a shot off peg that had healed over with the bone sticking out.
Here's my dogs on the den. Notice the playground and the holes. These coyotes were causing some major problems, I'm sure in part due to the peg leg dog, but he was fat and feeding a big litter of pups.
[ July 03, 2004, 02:31 PM: Message edited by: Cal Taylor ]
Posted by Lonny (Member # 19) on July 03, 2004, 02:59 PM:
It interests me Cal. I appreciate you posting it.
So was this lone male feeding the pups? No female around?
Thanks
Posted by Cal Taylor (Member # 199) on July 03, 2004, 03:28 PM:
Yes there was a female too, Lonny. Sorry to not get that part of it. I just found the dog with the peg interesting. The female was in good shape with no old injuries. This is what I call a "man made" sheep killer. Due to injury, I think he was relying almost soley on the easiest prey he could find. I'm fairly sure that the injury was a rifle shot. Least ways I doubt if he tripped and fell down and broke his leg!
[ July 03, 2004, 03:30 PM: Message edited by: Cal Taylor ]
Posted by Greenside (Member # 10) on July 03, 2004, 03:37 PM:
How about a little information about the den. How high up the drainage,slope,water, shade, playground ?
Thanks, Dennis
Posted by Cal Taylor (Member # 199) on July 03, 2004, 05:10 PM:
Greenside,
This den was near a creek bed. It has been taken farther down the creek historically. It was about a mile up the creek from usual. Normally this creek is very intermittent, and they will be near one of the spots that usually holds water for most of the year. Where it was this year was near a new seep that I found that I didn't know existed. As far as shade, just a little greasewood. The playground was pretty big and you can see it in the picture with the two dogs, all the grass mashed and lots of brush chewed off etc.. Obviously they had been out of the hole quite a bit. 9 pups. These coyotes wouldn't play the howl back game, so I ended up spending two nights in a sleeping bag waiting for them to howl in the night. They finally did, and the next morning I walked right into the den. The bitch was there, but seen me. She left but made the mistake of stopping about 800 yds away and howling, so the dogs went and got her and brought her back. I had to let her go 3 times while waiting for the dog to show. He finally did and armegeddon followed. For being 3 legged he worked the dogs hard, but part of the reason was that I was sitting right on top of the den hole (literally).
Posted by Rich Higgins (Member # 3) on July 03, 2004, 06:54 PM:
Cal, good pics. Thanks for posting them.
Did you receive the tapes I sent you?
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on July 03, 2004, 07:16 PM:
I have to imagine that's a very painful injury, and it doesn't look all that "healed" from the photo. Damn, they are tough animals.
Interesting post, Cal. Thanks for sharing!
Good hunting. LB
Posted by Cal Taylor (Member # 199) on July 03, 2004, 07:23 PM:
Leonard, Really it was pretty well healed. The black and even the red colred stuff had turned to "leather" and there was no leakage. Didn't seem to be full of infection either. I didn't cut it open, but there was no telltale swelling like a big glob of infection.
Rich, Tapes recieved.....
Posted by RanUtah (Member # 18) on July 06, 2004, 02:27 PM:
Nice pics Cal, but Casper's lookin a little nappy there.
Posted by Bryan J (Member # 106) on July 07, 2004, 12:56 PM:
Cal, Thanks for sharing. I was at the rifle range one day when a guy pulled in with a peg-legged coyote but the skin had covered the bone. He said he didn’t know it was missing a leg until he picked him up. Tough buggers for sure.
You called him a man-made problem due to injury. Are there other situations that you feel the problem coyote is man-made?
Posted by Cal Taylor (Member # 199) on July 07, 2004, 04:54 PM:
Other than injuries I can't think of any, and don't get me wrong, healthy coyotes kill plenty, but if a coyote is injured he has to take the easy stuff. But thats not only sheep. They will live on grasshoppers, morman crickets, mice, etc. etc.
Posted by Bryan J (Member # 106) on July 09, 2004, 10:44 AM:
Thanks Cal. I was just curious about your thoughts on that topic. Where there are so many of us that do this for recreation and in the back of our minds we feel that we are helping the rancher, and the game species ect… I was looking for other things to be avoided. Thanks again.
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