This is me in 1983 just before leaving the desert to go to fur market.
This is non airgun feel free to move it if needed.
Roachcreek
This is non airgun feel free to move it if needed.
Roachcreek
60 some dead coyotes and a couple bobcats 1983 photo before going to market
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Had to repost the picture.
Roachcreek
That a few $'s worth of pelts LOL! How long did that yield take you?
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Now that photo should hang inside small town America sporting good stores. A great story to be told by the oldest guy around in anytown.... Like photos of loggers with two man crosscut saws deep into some huge Douglas fir, or the Salmon boat loaded coming in across the Columbia river bar heading to the cannery in Illwaco.
Great stuff that!
Great stuff that!
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The hide season, when the furs had value, from about mid October to the first of the year. You would think coyote fur would not loose it’s prime in mid winter, but when breeding season starts, around the first of the year, the fur “breaks” and you can’t give it away to the fur buyers. So it was a 3 month or less time period.
The cat and coyote furs on the bike were my 13 year olds catch the stretcher with the skin out was how we dried the hides to keep them from rotting.
I started calling coyotes when I was 13, on my dad’s ranch in Central Oregon. These pictures are from Se Oregon.
Roachcreek
The cat and coyote furs on the bike were my 13 year olds catch the stretcher with the skin out was how we dried the hides to keep them from rotting.
I started calling coyotes when I was 13, on my dad’s ranch in Central Oregon. These pictures are from Se Oregon.
Roachcreek
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Ah the 80’s, dogs, cats, ufo’s and spotlighting permits! 8 hours a night listening to cotton tail rabbit calls! Some of the best hunts ever! I paid for my first straight 8x56 Swarovski from cat money! Awesome pic! Brought back some memories!
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And then came the Bunny Huggers to kill the prices. I used to help run a trap line late 70's early 80s. $60 to $75 for a good coyote $250 for a Bobcat and $500 for Lynx. Doesn't sound like much now but it was a lot back then.
I bet that bunch you got there made for a lot of work and nice payday for the trouble!
I bet that bunch you got there made for a lot of work and nice payday for the trouble!
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I remember back then they were hunting them in helicopters there were so many. $50.00 bounty with out the fur. That was in the Silver lake / Christmas Valley area.
Great pic man!
Dennis
Great pic man!
Dennis
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They were all taken in the daylight by using a mouth call.
I lived in Feilds ,population 12 including myself and my wife, we did this two years. First year I averaged 58 dollars per dog 250 to 300 per cat, then the price really took a drop, we had better furs the next year and averaged 30 a pelt, but the cats stayed the same.
the third year we had a baby, so we moved to Burns. I started chasing the dogs on the Catlow desert with a couple Ruskies, think of them as 30 mph pit bulls. I could drive for 2 days and never see the dust of another vehicle, it is probably still that way.
Roachcreek
I lived in Feilds ,population 12 including myself and my wife, we did this two years. First year I averaged 58 dollars per dog 250 to 300 per cat, then the price really took a drop, we had better furs the next year and averaged 30 a pelt, but the cats stayed the same.
the third year we had a baby, so we moved to Burns. I started chasing the dogs on the Catlow desert with a couple Ruskies, think of them as 30 mph pit bulls. I could drive for 2 days and never see the dust of another vehicle, it is probably still that way.
Roachcreek
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I assume a Ruskie is a Borzoi / Russian Wolfhound? If so I know what you mean. Neighbor had a female and it was a killing machine. He never hunted it but he had it on 160 acres and it occasionally killed coyotes if they got inside the fence.
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I bought a huge male from a breeder. She used him to dissuade males from town that came around when her females were in heat. She said he would jump the fence and go after the dogs..
I used them on the Catlow Desert where the Roaring Springs ranch winter their cows that were calving .
The Catlow is an ancient lake bed so you can run down the coyotes and shoot them out the window with a shotgun, but I used the Ruskies. I would drive up to about 200 yards behind the fleeing coyote, those hounds meanwhile are going berserk, slam on the breaks and open the passenger door and off they would go. They would catch the coyote and hit him before he made another 200 yards, it reminded me of video of miissles shooting down fighters, they were that fast. After hitting them with their chest, they bit down behind the shoulders and shook the dog to death. After skinning they looked like they had been shot with a 300 mag.
Roachcreek
I used them on the Catlow Desert where the Roaring Springs ranch winter their cows that were calving .
The Catlow is an ancient lake bed so you can run down the coyotes and shoot them out the window with a shotgun, but I used the Ruskies. I would drive up to about 200 yards behind the fleeing coyote, those hounds meanwhile are going berserk, slam on the breaks and open the passenger door and off they would go. They would catch the coyote and hit him before he made another 200 yards, it reminded me of video of miissles shooting down fighters, they were that fast. After hitting them with their chest, they bit down behind the shoulders and shook the dog to death. After skinning they looked like they had been shot with a 300 mag.
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Its photos like these that make me sick to my stomach!
Because we will never have the opportunity to leak that many Yotes in the dome again!!!
Nice photo, nice photo indeed..
Thanks for sharing.
Pew Pew
5 a day in Mass baiting allowed and 12am stopping time. I came across 3 in one hour on a hike at the Race Point National Sea Shore. It can still be done Haji.
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