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ursus21
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posted April 08, 2010 02:23 PM
I love to hunt and especially enjoy hunting coyotes. However around here we have a major noxious weed problem and with that we have way too many burrs like burdock and hounds tongue. It literally destroys the majority of the coyotes hides here. Plus I like to hunt coyotes year round for the most part, but I hate to just leave them lay or throw the whole thing away. I do take photos and enjoy them. I do the skinning/selling thing too with the few that are worth bothering with, but most aren't. I wanted something a little more to remember the hunts by and this isn't just limited to coyotes. So I eventually got into raising dermestid beetles to clean bones and skulls in particular. Since getting them a couple years ago it has been a fun hobby and now a small business cleaning skulls.
Here are a few coyotes skulls from 2009.
This is the cabinet behind my desk. As y'all can see there is a variety of skulls. It sure beats the high cost of taxidermy. I still get plenty of taxidermy done, but I really enjoy having this alternative.
One more close up pic of the some of the skulls in the cabinet.
So what do some of you guys that kill a lot of critters a year do with all those animals?
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Andy L
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posted April 08, 2010 06:27 PM
Very Kewl!! ![[Cool]](cool.gif)
The fur buyer I sell to wants coyotes and bobcats whole. He will pay top dollar and you dont have to do anything but haul em in. Reason being, he goes to a lot of Rondevous and Inndian Pow Wows or whatever they call em. He skins and tans with claws on. And, he does the skulls much like you do them to sell. He has an alternative market and probably makes much more money than most buyers on coyotes and pays much more as well, around here at least.
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Leonard
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posted April 08, 2010 06:37 PM
I throw them down a gully or behind a bush where somebody won't stumble onto it. I make an effort to conceal the carcass, with or without fur.
Good hunting. LB
edit: In Africa, in one particular camp, you could smell death driving in, on the road. Of course, it was downwind from the camp and in a real brushy area. They would wheelbarrow guts and carcasses across the road and BOY, was it stinky. We never hunted that particular place for jackal, but I have no doubt they knew all about it. I mean, it was really disgusting. LB
[ April 08, 2010, 06:42 PM: Message edited by: Leonard ]
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ursus21
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posted April 09, 2010 06:04 AM
Andy L. sounds like your friend has a good deal going for him. I would do something like that, but those events always seem to be scheduled for weekends and I'm usually hunting something. Then again the same could be said for most of my weekdays as well. It's a rough life, but I manage. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
Leonard, when did you go to Africa and what were you able to hunt? I went to South Africa back in 2003.
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