Coyote Pelt

[Bugbear]

Well, it can be a little gross if you aren't used to seeing... you know innerds and parts and stuff. Pluss you would need to have a place to do the deed that can be cleaned, like the backyard and not in the bath tub...
[QUOTE=James MacMillan;467911]It really isn't hard at all to skin and cure a pelt. the stuff to do it is readily available at any good hunting goods store......

But if you have never done it, and you really want to save the hide, then find a local guy to do it for you. Better to practice a bit before you tackle a pelt you want to save.

[James MacMillan]

Well, it can be a little gross if you aren't used to seeing... you know innerds and parts and stuff.

Well, you don't have to see any "innerds and parts and stuff" You just make a couple of cuts to bleed it out, then hang, cut, pull - stretch and scrape. If you are not going to use the meat (don't have a dog in the neighborhood?) just despose of it the same way that you would any dead body.

[Clockwork John]

... If you are not going to use the meat (don't have a dog in the neighborhood?) just despose of it the same way that you would any dead body.

So... are we talking a shallow grave in the desert? Toss it in the river with a few cinder blocks tied to it? Or is this more of a hydrochloric acid in the bathtub kind of situation?

If you just want the thing gone, get a big dog with decent hunting instrincts. If the coyote lives, it won't come around.

I'm trying to convince my wife and in-laws to let me get an Irish wolfhound... We have a large pack of coyotes here that have been responsible for the "disappearance" of many neighborhood animals.

We also have a bobcat that wanders by from time to time. My beagle/bassett mix and mini-poodle do a good job of keeping it away from the house.

[ccga3359]

...just despose of it the same way that you would any dead body.

So it's true about you 'Mericans...

If you get enough of a coyote problem you make a kilt, fur side in I should think!

...self shot deer... ...self trapped and skinned skunk skin... ...self shot and tanned dingo...

Very talented, generous animals (yet perhaps dumb) that you have down there and that talent extends even after they've shuffled off this mortal coil.

[Bugbear]

Well... it's not a deer, so it might not be that messy. When I was a kid, and could see, all the hunters in the neighborhood usually tied the carcus to a tree branch or something like that, then worked on it while it hung over a wash tub or a hole in the ground. It would have already been gutted and de-glanded before the brought it home though.
Their hunting wives usually came home with deer blood all over their face and shirts too, te he. Here Honey, hold the legs...

[Bugbear]

Start collecting old car batteries...
For real though the guys I knew who were hunting and skinnin would usually eat a good deal of the meat, compost the blood with straw or hay, and probably the guts and brains and that stuff too if it wasn't left out in the woods.
I think in this guys case he should take it to have it done, and I wouldn't eat the meat or dog food it. I usually compost what the cat's drag in and don't finnish eating.

[TheSp8]

As said, skinning isn't hard. Doing a quality job and having a pelt worth tanning and converting to a sporran takes practice. If you want to use this coyote I'd say take it to a taxidermist. They can skin and send it off to be tanned and have it come back in good shape. I've also been told that coyotes are harder to skin than some other critters and that could lead to more mistakes also. It will need to be skinned soon after death or chilled else you risk the hair starting to slip. Good Luck.

YMOS,
Tony

[heartofglass]

Better get the coyote....cant have your wife lose her cat!

[kiltedsawyer]

Thanks to all for the advice, (Jay...........your sick......in a very funny way,) having never dealt with a taxidermist before, I'm still wondering what a ballpark figure on his services might be. Anyone got a clue? I like the dog idea, just not set up for one right now. Used to have a Great Pyrenees, (elegant protection,) but don't have the fencing or the time to raise a pup.
Thanks again, ..Oh and I know it might be cheaper to buy the pelt, but I've got to get rid of this thing and I'd hate to kill it and not use some part of it. Besides, how many of you, (save Jamie and crew,) have a sporran from something you actually hunted?

Respectfully,
David

[James MacMillan]

how many of you have a sporran from something you actually hunted?

I have a very crude, ugly sporan that I made out of the hide a self shot deer. I have a self trapped and skinned skunk skin, that is a work in progress, that may someday make a passable evening sporran. and a self shot and tanned dingo hide that is cut out waiting for assembly.