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walt
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posted February 09, 2003 08:00 AM
New to this sport,what do you usually do with the dead carcass ?
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20t-n-t
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posted February 09, 2003 10:04 AM
Well Walt,
This can be a touchy subject, I'm lucky in that I hunt large expances of private lands and most of them are cattle ranches with bone yards or blow outs where I can dispose of the carcasses without any problems. I have one sheep ranch where the rancher wants the carcasses hung on a division fence. He says it keeps other coyotes from crossing the fence line. (bull) But it lets him know how many yotes I'm takeing off his place.
I think that discreation is best when dealing with this matter and I personaly don't want someone walking there poodle to stumble on to a pile of rotting carcasses thrown out by the road.
I also skin most of the coyotes and fox and badger on the spot ( when I'm finished hunting) before I go home. then I only have to deal with pelt prep. at home. Keeps the little woman happy, if ya know what I mean....
Hope this helps Walt.
Smote the Yote
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Leonard
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posted February 09, 2003 10:06 AM
It is discarded. There are those individuals that leave them where they can be observed by passersby. I always hide them off the road, behind bushes, down in a gully, etc. At least a hundred feet. Sometimes they are undisturbed months later, and sometimes they are gone just hours later. Recycled protein.
Good hunting. LB
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Az-Hunter
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posted February 09, 2003 12:49 PM
I generally leave them right where they fell. I skin a select few each year, depending on if a friend wants a hide or I like the particular coloring of one I shoot. Like Leonard mentioned, most are consumed by scavengers in short order.....or simply melt away in time.
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UTcaller
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posted February 09, 2003 01:01 PM
Yeah,I'm like Leonard,and AZHunter.I find a bush or somewhere out of the way.GOOD HUNTING Chad...
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Krustyklimber
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posted February 09, 2003 02:14 PM
I dunno...
Curt was nice enough to dispose of the only coyote my brother has shot.
Red and coyote:
And I have yet to see a coyote with its carcass intact let alone one I have to deal with (at least while hunting)...
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Cdog911
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posted February 09, 2003 03:01 PM
Walt,
I live in farm country where section roads bisect the countryside every mile and more resulting in lots of people being just about everywhere, whether they're supposed to be or not. The landfill charges for every trip I go through the gate, which is the main legal means of disposal. But, what I have done is contact a landowner upon much of whose land I hunt. I got his permission to dump carcasses a couple of ridges and valleys off the nearest road where they cannot be seen from any public roadway. He keeps this particular tract posted No Hunting W/out Written Permission to control who goes in there and who doesn't. And that group's pretty much yours truly, and me alone. Our state laws define unlawful disposal as being "to the offense" of the complainant, as long as there are no other health issues involved, i.e., water contamination. If someone were to go to that landowner and express their offense at my carcass pile, they would immediately be turned over to the high Sheriff for criminal trespassing since they aren't supposed to be there anyway. By Spring, very little of anything is left behind by rats, mice, crows, coyotes, possums, etc..
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Cdog911
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posted February 09, 2003 03:02 PM
BTW, maybe a stupid question, but isn't the phrase "dead carcass" redundant? (Just givin' ya a bad time, Walt. Welcome to the Board.)
[ February 09, 2003, 03:04 PM: Message edited by: Cdog911 ]
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Terry Hunter
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posted February 09, 2003 03:31 PM
If the animal has good fur it is skinned.Some stay where they fall.
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Leonard
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posted February 09, 2003 05:37 PM
Well, you know, JH has expressed a certain mantra ever since I can remember, about blasting a coyote with a 25'06 ....and letting him lay.
I, of course, have always disputed that characterization, but not because I don't use a 25'06 on occasion. It's because I go get every last one, whether I intend to keep it or not; and I'm pretty fussy about what I keep. I never leave them lay, never have, never will.
But after I do whatever needs doing, and I have a carcass to dispose of, I feel that hiding it somewhere is as responsible as the situation allows. Lance's regulations seem totally unworkable, out west, here. Anybody can be offended by almost anything, including a killed coyote that you don't intend to eat.
They say confession is good for the soul.
I did leave one animal lay, once. But it was because I couldn't find a way to get across the river without backtracking through some real heavy stuff, and no roads on the other side for about twenty miles. So heavy that I didn't know the river was even there, when I shot it! I didn't see it, almost fell in it, cold wet and deep. Too bad, and it was a long tail. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
Good hunting. LB
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Barry
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posted February 09, 2003 07:52 PM
No way Leonard;You would'nt leave a longtail.Did you get it with the seventeen?
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Leonard
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posted February 09, 2003 10:03 PM
Oh yes I did. Never felt real happy about it, but I didn't have a choice. The brush along the river was well over my head, I would have never seen him if he wasn't standing on a rock.
A seventeen? No such luck. It was a 270 Winchester, and I was deer hunting, at the time.
Good hunting. LB
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Rabid Rich
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posted February 10, 2003 07:52 AM
Question for you Gents. I assume that most of you are selling the hides and if so what are they bringing in your"Neck-of-tha-woods"? Thanks and Keep on keepin on!
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Rabid Rich
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posted February 10, 2003 07:57 AM
WHOOPPS!!!!
Sorry about takin up twice the space here guys, I wuz using my trigger finger and "double tapped" the sucker!
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