To ask a VERY lame question, I am sure (bear in mind I haven't been hunting in 25+ years so I'm just getting back into understanding huntable targets in the region) --- what exactly do you do with the coyote after you shoot them? They can't possibly be good eating. The pelts MIGHT be reasonably usable. A skull might be kind of cool for a man cave with other predator skulls like a bobcat, mountain lion or bear, but otherwise, is there any usefulness in them besides that?
Pelts are worth a little no much though. Personally there's two hunt-able animals I'll never eat one being a coyote and the other a wolf.
With that said animals I do enjoy as table fare benefit from the management of predators. Deer turkey quail antelope elk squirrel rabbit even song birds survive as a result. Not to mention my livelihood as a cow calf rancher. Coyotes will and do kill calves. That greatly affects my bottom line. Loose one calf to coyotes and the already razor thin profit margins get thinner. They also kill cats dogs chickens. I get it it's part of nature but they are so damn adaptable it's frightening. In the 30's when they tried to poison and trap them to eradicate them in Oklahoma Kansas and Nebraska they couldn't succeed. We have lots of them around here. I'll kill/trap 40-50 a year at a minimum of two square miles. There also is a bounty on them in Utah of 50 dollars a dog from the state because they where decimating the mule deer fawns. I enjoy hunting other species so I feel it's partially my responsibility to aide in the management of the predator population to ensure I'll have game to hunt and eat.
Bob Cat mountain lion and bear (especially spring bear) is delicious. I enjoy eating those but I've skinned enough coyotes to know how nasty they are. My friend in Idaho kills a couple of wolfs every year (since they opened season) and he claims they are the nastiest creatures he ever been around. Worse than a wolverine which are infested with fleas even the winter.
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