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What do you do with your coyotes

Mainer207

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So, I’ve never been a predator hunter, but as I get more into hunting I want to give it a go.

I’m curious what you guys do with your coyotes...Do you leave them lay, skins for the walls, or have you made garments out of the furs?

My girlfriend handled a coyote fur at the local bow shop and now she wants a hat...I’m wondering if I can skin and tan myself before taking it to someone to make the hat or is the whole process better off in someone else’s hands?

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Hang them in the shed and sell them whole. I don’t shoot any til December though.
 
I sell them whole in the winter. Too nasty to bother with skinning. I don’t get enough coyotes to make it worth it anyhow.
 
I do pretty decent selling them whole, I’ve put them up before but it hasn’t been worth it to me at least.
 
Skin , stretch and dry also. Our earlier coyotes bring good money, late Oct into November for the best price. Good guard hairs, good price.
 
I built a skimming machine and a tumbler. Now if I could find someone to do my fleshing I’d have it made.
 
I mostly hunt coyotes and do everything from the skinning - tan all myself. Once you get proficient with it, it is super easy and saves a lot of money vs having them done by a taxidermist/ tannery. I use them as wall hangers, gifts, or sell them. You can make a skinning rack fairly cheap, save yourself a lot of time and get a small cheap pressure washer for fleshing, make a stretcher vs buying one already made, and buy the tanning supplies online. Or you could just put them on the stretcher and let them dry and leave them that way. I never leave coyotes out in the field unless they have mange, then I bury them.
 
I like to have mine tanned and hang in the man cave with my other hides including bobcat, beaver, badger, fox. I think they look nice.
Yes coyotes do stink but once you get through the process that come back smelling good from the tannery.
I just show one from my deer stand with my bow earlier this week. It is already skinned and salted.
 
Skinning has a a fun skill to learn. Once you get your knives sharp and learn the method it is effortless. Gotta want a new hobbie though
 
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