i've held many yotes in 1.75 northwoods and dukes.plus a few with bridger 1.65.so i'm quite sure the #2 will be sufficient.my only question is why do your coyotes average so much.i weigh nearly everyone i catch and they run anywhere 30 to 35 lbs with the exception being in the 40 to 45 lb range.check out the big contests here and you'll find the largest is usually around 42 - 45 lbs.they look much bigger than they actually are

 

#2 Bridger will work fine.

 

Big key is nice low pan sets.

John,you using offsets?

 

my only question is why do your coyotes average so much.i weigh nearly everyone i catch and they run anywhere 30 to 35 lbs with the exception being in the 40 to 45 lb range.check out the big contests here and you'll find the largest is usually around 42 - 45 lbs.they look much bigger than they actually are

Not sure why they are the size they are. But we've weighed them.

First day of bear season back around 2003, our gang killed 5 'yotes off the first 3 drives. 3 of them would have beaten out the top dog at Mosquito Creek that February. We ended up getting 2 during the MC hunt. Biggest only went 45-46ish. We done saved the wrong 'yotes for later.

 

you kill a 60lb. yote and weigh it on a certified scale and i'll give you a dozen 650's.

 

The heaviest I've ever heard of here in northeast pa (confirmed) was 55lbs. Shot by a houndsman.

 

eager beaver is that dozen of 650s up to any 60 lb yote

 

and that is very rare.saw one an old timer trapped at a beagle club in stroudsburg that weighed 58 and that was a full 17lbs bigger than any of the dozen i trapped that same year.

 

The heaviest I've ever heard of here in northeast pa (confirmed) was 55lbs. Shot by a houndsman.

What about the one down by me a few years back? I thought it was 60 or so? Near the Pocono Raceway?

Nevermind , I just checked....It was Matt Borger's 51.3 female back in '06.....

That coyote got bigger every year!

 

Big key is nice low pan sets.

John,you using offsets?

I have some offset, but mostly regular jaws. I prefer regular jaws. I see more damage on grey fox with offsets. Seems to me it allows their leg to slide a little ..... I know, it's not supposed to be that way, but just my experience. 90% of what I run is laminated also, but stock Bridgers do a nice job.

 

My dad shot a 64 lb coyote around Shunk, Pa back in 2008 during deer season. If I can find the certified weight paper I will somehow post it with a picture of the full mount he got.

 

My dad shot a 64 lb coyote around Shunk, Pa back in 2008 during deer season. If I can find the certified weight paper I will somehow post it with a picture of the full mount he got.

I would like to see this!! That would be a big fat yote.

 

IIRC the 3 biggest ones we killed that day were 58, 56 & 56. There's also been the garden variety 32-38 pounders. But we do kill some powerful big 'yotes in this neighborhood.

 

Sorry but I would need to see some type of proof to believe that. I've shot my share of Pa coyotes and I haven't seen 40 lbs on the scale yet.

May I ask where your neighborhood is located?

 

Sorry but I would need to see some type of proof to believe that. I've shot my share of Pa coyotes and I haven't seen 40 lbs on the scale yet.

May I ask where your neighborhood is located?

Sorry, but I'm not really concerned whether you believe me or not. I will sleep tonite. There are only 12 or 13 members of our bear gang as witnesses.........no certified scale slips. If you've not seen a PA 'yote over 40 lbs. you need to get out more. Really.

I'm in 2D.

 

The Mosquito Creek hunt brings in 150+ coyotes every year to be weighed and the heaviest usually tips the scale at 50 lbs at the high end (and that one 50 pounder is an exception). To think that your group killed 3 just shy of 60 lbs in a day or two.... Sorry, I'm not biting.

Statistically... Not feasible.

http://www.mosquitocreeksportsmen.com/Previous%20Coyote.htm

and based on those stats... I'll sleep fine and know that I get out plenty.... Really

 

Yeah I gotta say I'm in the same boat as bootmud here. I'm calling bs until I'd see some hard proof

 

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