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Post by magnumwheelman on Dec 30, 2021 10:27:25 GMT -5
we see a fair amount of Black Squirrels in this area... however on our farm, the lil Red Pine Squirrels run off everything else, so we are at war with those ( I call them "crack rats" as they never sit still ) before they moved in & took over, FIL had a lot of bigger Fox Squirrels here on the farm, but the crack rats are intolerant of any other squirrels, & ran them all off... I live trap big greys from problem areas in town, & release them on the farm ( we have literally tons of walnuts here, but even with actively hunting the Crack Rats, & not hunting anything else, it doesn't take long before they get run off...
been planting oaks, & I used to hunt Greys when I was a kid... I thought I could build a good population of Greys to hunt as I get old... But I doubt I'll get the Crack Rat population low enough to get a good Grey population back???
BTW... not only is that Black Coyote a trophy because of its color, it also looks quite large... the picture I posted earlier has a pretty big one for our area & a little smaller one... the black one looks quite a bit bigger than the biggest one in my picture
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Post by KRal on Dec 30, 2021 14:36:52 GMT -5
BTW... not only is that Black Coyote a trophy because of its color, it also looks quite large... the picture I posted earlier has a pretty big one for our area & a little smaller one... the black one looks quite a bit bigger than the biggest one in my picture I’d guess he weighed 40-45lbs - I’ve killed much bigger. There were actually bigger ones in the pack he was in - but not black. |
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Post by reflex264 on Dec 30, 2021 15:02:48 GMT -5
Just plain awesome!
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Post by squawberryman on Dec 30, 2021 15:29:50 GMT -5
Perspective:
Sun is going down, Kim sees dark Coyote, holds up gun with dark sights, puts little black post in little black gap, tries to focus with a heart rate of 165, squeezes trigger with success.
Yeah
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Post by KRal on Dec 30, 2021 17:08:27 GMT -5
Perspective: Sun is going down, Kim sees dark Coyote, holds up gun with dark sights, puts little black post in little black gap, tries to focus with a heart rate of 165, squeezes trigger with success. Yeah One correction - front sight painted white😎 |
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Post by longoval on Dec 30, 2021 20:26:13 GMT -5
I've never seen a black coyote but man I love that #5 pistol!
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Post by contender on Dec 30, 2021 21:46:06 GMT -5
Yep,, I know your area starmetal47! I've gone to Kingsport a bunch! Kinda figured you might be in that area,, or maybe towards the Tn line off I-40.
I'll be going to Kingsport in the future to meet up with an old friend at a gun show as soon as he can figure out when he can do it.
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Post by cddogfan1 on Jan 4, 2022 10:55:35 GMT -5
So I live in Georgia and I have seen several Black Yotes over the years. Never shot one because typically I don't want to mess up my deer hunt. I have read that its believed that Yotes East of the Mississippi show more color phases and are bigger in size due to breeding with Red Wolves. And it is this breeding with Coyotes that helped in their extirpation.
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Post by messybear on Jan 4, 2022 19:36:28 GMT -5
Good shot on that cool yote!
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Post by KRal on Jan 22, 2022 10:11:43 GMT -5
So I live in Georgia and I have seen several Black Yotes over the years. Never shot one because typically I don't want to mess up my deer hunt. I have read that its believed that Yotes East of the Mississippi show more color phases and are bigger in size due to breeding with Red Wolves. And it is this breeding with Coyotes that helped in their extirpation. This theory holds a lot of merit. After reading up on the “red wolf” on Wikipedia, this could very well be the causes of color phases in coyotes east of the Mississippi. |
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Post by seminolewind on Jan 22, 2022 15:29:11 GMT -5
So I live in Georgia and I have seen several Black Yotes over the years. Never shot one because typically I don't want to mess up my deer hunt. I have read that its believed that Yotes East of the Mississippi show more color phases and are bigger in size due to breeding with Red Wolves. And it is this breeding with Coyotes that helped in their extirpation. This theory holds a lot of merit. After reading up on the “red wolf” on Wikipedia, this could very well be the causes of color phases in coyotes east of the Mississippi. We had what we thought was a red wolf on a trail camera in Georgia. He was much larger than his coyote buddies, and when he howled with the rest of the pack at night, he sounded totally different from the others. It would send chills up your spine. |
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