Monster Yote

[Buckskin]

A guy who was hunting my neighbors farm shot a big yote the other day.  It had been seen by many people around the area, but it really surprised me when the guy told the farmer that it weighed 75lbs!  The biggest male I've ever shot was 50 and that was a pig!  Must have been crossed with a wolf or dog or something. I haven't seen it dead, so he may have embellished a bit....

[guzzijohn]

That has to be a bit embellished or a cross. If they are getting that big I guess I will need to move up from the .243 to a 30-06!
GuzziJohn

[Buckskin]

I'm guessing that as well, although I did see it about 3 weeks ago marking and he was BIG, much bigger than any I have seen prior and I've shot 6 this winter, all but one males and decent sized.  I would say at average around here for a male is about 35-40lbs.  We are being over run with yotes, the deer are stressed from being hassled by them.  I saw 4 deer behind my house that took off on a dead run when a coon walked into the field 300 yds away!

[351 power]

just got a .22-250 to ante up on coyotes. may already be too light. have seen some big ones recently too

[BUGEYE]

fur-fish-game reported one from missouri that weighed 104 lbs.  DNA tests showed there was no wolves or dogs involved.  average missouri yote is around 30 lbs.

[cwlongshot]

A guy who was hunting my neighbors farm shot a big yote the other day.  It had been seen by many people around the area, but it really surprised me when the guy told the farmer that it weighed 75lbs!  The biggest male I've ever shot was 50 and that was a pig!  Must have been crossed with a wolf or dog or something. I haven't seen it dead, so he may have embellished a bit....

That IS a big dog!!!

 We shot one here (New England) that went mid 60's and I have herd of a 80# but not seen it. I see allot in the mid fifties around here. The couple I shot this year went upper forties, but I didn't actually weigh any of them. Keep shootin' 'em!!

CW

[jabey9210]

I'm jealous those dogs are huge back there out here in idaho 35-40lbs is a pretty big dog.  Our dogs are gettin a bad case of the mange lately bad enough that we've decided to leave full fur yote's alone in our immediate area and only kill the hairless ones.  Fox haven gotten hit pretty good with mange also.  But you drive 30 miles in any direction and all the pelts look good so go figure.

[Buckskin]

Don't get much mange up here.  I think the 20 below nights take care of those...

[Bugflipper]

I have shot several down at my little farm that are in the 50s and a few into the 60s. At my house 18 miles away most of them are in the 30s I have only shot one big one in the mid 40's. A friend of mine, where they are bigger is a butcher. He throws the bones out in the back. Since he is right next door to where I hunt I am guessing that is why they are bigger there.

[Glanceblamm]

I have taken at least one that went 60 lbs and a few more in the 45-50lb range.

The term "Eastern Coyote" is hardly a new one and they tend to run larger along with having shorter ears and a broader snout than your true western Coyote.

Biologist, like Sientist, tend to dispute each other but some reckon that the Eastern Coyote is a cross between the Red Wolf and the Coyote towards the end of the 1800's. The large ones around here do tend to have a lot of Red colorization in them although they dont seem to really be dominate as there is not any red in some of these.

Then there is the so called Coy-dog. This one is reputed to be a cross between a Coyote and the dogs that were around when the indians were. The coyotes will breed with a domestic of course but these tend to be Black. That Used to be a $50 bill runnin around out there but they are now worthless because it was found that the hair would slip off the hide.

If I could question todays Biologist, my thought would be that the blood line should have became mighty thin say from 1900 to present but yet reports of Wolves in Iowa and Wisconsin have been common for at least five years or better so perhaps there is still some cross breeding that happens?

The Coyotes showed up here in central IL around 73' or 74' but they were very few only known to the farm community. It would be 1978 or 79 before the general public realized this (and in the form of road kills) as they would usually excitedly say that they spotted a dead wolf out on the highway.

The Wolf became protected here in IL after a hunter took a 90 lb five foot long Gray in the winter of 2005. This was legal but became Illegal in our 2006 hunting regulations.

I personnaly have not seen a wolf yet but they are overdue according to Biologist reports on their movement. The one thing that I really have watched for while calling would be the couger or Mt lion. This would be rare and unexpected but yet more credible sightings along with at least one trail cam pic have happened here.

[Spanky]

I shot one a big female a few years ago. She was 52#... that's the biggest female yote I've seen.



Spanky

[Hodr]

Here in Az. my brother in law and I took two abandoned rottweilers on a cattle ranch.  I hit the first one with a .357 mag 125 grain buffalo bore out of an 18" barrel at 60 yds.  His was trailing about another 60 yds and got tagged with a 223 out of a Savage 24 over/under.  Both fell within 10'.  We use the same method when calling coyotes.  If we hit them they fall.  So far double teaming like this has worked.  Those Rotts were 2 to 3 times the size of coyotes.  We are supposed to go out again when it warms up a little.  Brother in law has a business in central Az. and has made friends for 40 years with quite a few major ranchers.  Since they don't have to pay us, and have learned to trust our discretion we get a lot of pest control hunting.

Hodr

[McDerry]

Link goes to a picture of the missouri 104 pounder and New York's state record from back in 2004.   

http://www.coyoteinc.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=predatorhunting&action=display&thread=312


70 lbs plus eastern coyotes are common in the the Tristates of New England

[Dee]

Buckskin here is a yote I killed last year. I have been calling and hunting them since 1968, and this is the biggest I have ever seen or shot. It was killing stock on a rancher friends place and we had baited him with a dead cow. When I shot him he was controling the carcas and would not let another coyote near it. I guessed him at close to 70 lbs, and the rancher did also. He was rolling fat, and about 5 years old with good teeth, and in good health.
The stock on the M4 is full extended and a little closer to the camera so looks bigger than it was to the coyote.

click to enlarge

[Wyo. Coyote Hunter]

   Dee, nice coyote..the M4, is that a Bushmaster? My knowledge of AR's is almost non existant..when I was in Mich. this winter, I looked at many of them...One guy in Jay;s  Sporting Goods recommended a Bushmaster M4...Since coming back to Wy. I haven't seen one..only other  brands..he didn't say it was the best, only the one he favored..an AR is on my list of things todo, when I get settled .....I wrote down what he recommended, but don't have it in front of me..I am pretty sure it was M4...

[Dee]

Yea WCH, it's a Bushy. A few days ago I put a tactical red dot on it, but haven't killed anything with it since then.

[Qaz]

 I have seen 65lbs in Virginia and that is a big dog. I don't believe the 104lbs, is it possible, I doubt it. Is it probable, not a chance. There are several problems with this; We know there have been many confirmed kills in the east of 50-60lbs coyotes, so 65-70lbs is possible on a fat one. But an additional 30-40lbs, no way, that is a huge amount of weight for a dog as lightly boned as a coyote to carry, much less function with. In order for a canine to change in size so quickly, some other larger canine blood must be introduced, and then reintroduced, again and again.  It is incredible genetically, that the 35-45lb dogs out west have morphed in to 50-60lbs dogs in the east this quickly without any outside help. I hope I never see the coyote grow into a 104lb preditor, your labs and hounds would be what is for dinner, and to be honest, I think all of us would be in danger. I hunt them at night, and to be honest, I have had enough of them @ 50lbs sneak up on me, I don't want one @ 100lbs to do it!