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  • Double Naught Spy
    Chieftain
    • Sep 2013
    • 2560

    Another Coyote, Maybe Two



    While hunting hogs at TBR, I decided to do some predator calling. I would call for a few minutes, wait a few, repeat. To my surprise, a pair of coyotes appeared. The first one, a male, quickly disappeared into the high wheat/oats of the food plot. The second stayed out in the open and was shot first. This coyote ducked back into the tree line and was not seen again. Attempts to find this coyote resulted in being unduly ravaged by mosquitoes and the search was quickly abandoned. I doubt she got very far, but she got farther than I could go.

    The male exited the food plot and was into open, mowed field. He trotted some distance before stopping and that is where I dropped him.

    I thought I would just run over and get some quick pics, but that wasn't the case. I slogged through a virtual swamp or bog, my boots being sucked down by the mud, the constant hum of mosquitoes was my companion.

    I waited a few more hours for hogs. Silly me, they weren't there. They were all across the road on the neighbor's property again.

    UPDATE: 1st Coyote was found by the landowner, dead, with the help of buzzards.
    Last edited by Double Naught Spy; 05-10-2015, 10:47 PM.
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  • wraith1516
    Warrior
    • Dec 2014
    • 316

    #2
    Well good they won't be having any pups

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    • customcutter
      Warrior
      • Dec 2014
      • 452

      #3
      Great job. The first two coyotes I killed were actually attacking a calf as it was being born. I've only gotten 5 or maybe 6 over the years. They take a heavy toll on cattle and live stock. I think a most ranchers think the cow missed being bred, or maybe had a false pregnancy, when in fact they were targeted by predators. A man in Al a few years ago told me that they had found and dug up a coyote den. Inside they found 26 fawn skulls....

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      • Klem
        Chieftain
        • Aug 2013
        • 3509

        #4
        Your videos always appreciated.

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        • BluntForceTrauma
          Administrator
          • Feb 2011
          • 3897

          #5
          Originally posted by customcutter View Post
          A man in Al a few years ago told me that they had found and dug up a coyote den. Inside they found 26 fawn skulls....
          Here in Minnesota they did the same thing. Found 40 fawn skulls.
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          • jawbone
            Warrior
            • Jan 2012
            • 328

            #6
            great thermal vids, 00Spy. I've been noticing how effective you are with firing the split second you get a decent sight picture. what trigger are you using?

            also liked your text narrative. info delivered painlessly. that, plus a sense of humor really rounds out the experience. thanks again.

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            • Double Naught Spy
              Chieftain
              • Sep 2013
              • 2560

              #7
              Quoted from a guy elsewhere on the internet...
              Yep, everyone has a coyote den with fawn skulls in it but there's yet to be a good picture of it.
              Googling the topic, sure enough, you will come across a myriad of claims of coyote dens with fawn skulls. Amazingly, they are void of any other type of skulls being mentioned. Apparently, coyotes only take fawn heads back to the den. You have to wonder why that would be. Coyotes are not prey-specific.

              As a zooarchaeologist, the idea that folks are identifying and quantifying from fragments (because the skulls are going to be fragmentary if they are from fawns) into the "minimum number of individuals" of deer fawns and doing so with such frequency is something I find fairly astounding. Like human babies, fawn skulls are not fused together into single units like their adult counterparts. Like human babies, the junctions between the partially ossified sections are cartilage and connective tissue. A coyote is going to be chomping down on a tasty fawn skull and extracting the brain and obliterating the structure of the skull.

              The stories take on rather mythic proportions. It was always somebody else that found these coyote dens and who did the tabulating and quantifying. Or when the people claim they have done it, there is no accompanying documentation. People may find some skull parts, but they aren't finding the large numbers of skulls as claimed.

              What is more amazing is the number of reports where people are taking the time to shovel these things apart.

              For all those people who find it more convenient to bother you with their question rather than to Google it for themselves.


              Coyotes eat fawns, no doubt about it. They also eat just about anything else they can catch down to itty bitty shrews and even bugs. No doubt this fawn skull accumulating may happen and may be documented somewhere, but the sheer number of buddy, heard of, 3rd party, and undocumented 1st person reports of such feats is to the point of being unrealistic given the vastness of claims and vacuum of evidence.

              Think about it. These dug up dens would have first been dug by the coyotes. The coyotes are not excavating luxury condominiums. They don't have a lot of extra room in their dens for storing a lot of deer heads, ostensibly along with a lot of other deer parts, and the heads and parts of other animals. One of the claims to the link above says they found 50 fawn skulls in the den they excavated. Others report numbers in the teens, 20s, and 30s. That is going to occupy a lot of space.
              Last edited by Double Naught Spy; 05-11-2015, 03:24 AM.
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              • Kikn
                Warrior
                • Nov 2011
                • 689

                #8
                Nicely done

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                • 81police
                  Warrior
                  • Feb 2013
                  • 286

                  #9
                  The dog pinger! Another great video Brian. I was driving through Montague Co. a couple weeks ago and thought about you.

                  And to your point about fawn skulls and coyotes, I've left out a many small shoats only to never find a single bone. Like you said, I think younger, smaller animals, get mostly devoured (some bones included) when coyotes feed. I've got the skull of a 100lb boar dad shot a few months back. The skull and bottom jaw had been substantially gnawed on unlike what you see w/ a large boar skull. Very interesting.
                  John 11:25-26

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