Dino International Furs is located in South Portland, Maine. You could get anywhere from $40 to $60 dollars for each coyote pelt. Find out when the fur buyers meet in your neck of the woods and make plans to go. Let’s all do our part this winter to try our best at hanging a few pesky coyote on the skinning pole. I’m guessing all of Maine could use a coyote population reduction. It hasn’t been this bad for several years. In my deer hunting area the coyote population has gotten ridiculous. The high vantage point will allow you to spot an approaching coyote circling to the downwind side with the possibility of being able to shoot before it sniffs you out. You need to be ready to shoot downwind immediately after a calling sequence. A location with a high vantage point with a crosswind is ideal. Do not sit facing the wind or with the wind at your back. In the event you do venture out to howl in a coyote this January or February be prepared to sit at least an hour or longer. There’s a number of reasons a coyote will show up after you howl. Quite possibly one of the mating pair died and the survivor comes in seeking out a new companion. They might come in to your howls for the fact they could be lonely. A coyote could rush in thinking it’s their mate that went off to hunt. It’s that time of year that coyotes are seeking for that companionship. Be at ready position for a coyote could pop-up from anywhere at a moments notice. Get out there really early in the day to either use a mouth call or an electronic caller to sound the contact/greeting howl. What does all this information mean to a predator hunter in January? Quite simple, really! It’s time to howl in those coyotes! January is prime time for breaking out coyote social vocalizations. The female coyote’s gestation typically lasts about two months. It all depends on how early the coyotes pair up to mate in the winter months. Some mating pairs are greeting new puppies in early June. If all goes well the monogamous pair will be parents either in late April or sometime in May. January through to the beginning of March the coyotes will be either still seeking for a mate to reproduce or they have already succeeded. That might have been the case since it was early for mate seeking. Maybe it was a dominant coyote traveling with an adolescent.

Those sounds were sort of like puppy whimpers that were slightly on the squeaky side. A short while later the two coyotes were walking behind me making those strange squeaking sounds. I first heard a few contact calls coming from the nearby wetland moments before hearing a couple greeting howls. It’s quite possible that the two coyotes walking by my deer blind in October were a mating pair that hooked up early. Typically here in Maine during the months of December and January coyote seek hard for a companion. It was still three months away from the coyote mating season. I heard these strange vocalizations in the month of October. To hear these faint sounds made by a coyote you need to be extremely close. I heard an unexplained screeching or squeaking sound. I’ve heard two coyote within fifty yards of me talking back and forth. Anyone that spends over 460 hours a year in the woods most likely have heard the coyotes extensive vocabulary. Pick your spot carefully.Ĭontrary to what some people believe, coyotes are extremely social animals.

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