Coyote About 3 Years Old
POSTED: 4:56 pm CST December 13, 2010
UPDATED: 4:32 pm CST December 14, 2010
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- DNA testing has confirmed that a large animal shot and killed by a hunter a month ago was an "unusually large" coyote, the Missouri Department of Conservation announced Monday.
The hunter killed the animal on the opening day of Missouri's November firearms deer season on Nov. 13.
Coyotes are legal game during deer season, so the hunter shot and killed it, the department said. But when the hunter got a closer look at the animal, he wondered if he had mistakenly shot and killed a wolf, which is a protected species in Missouri, the department said.
The hunter contacted the MDC, which tested the animal's DNA and determined it was in fact a coyote.
The MDC said the 104-pound coyote was about 3 years old."
A hundred pound coyote? Motherfucker! I wish they grew that big out here.
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Thanks, man.
Jeez Louise! That sucker's HUGE!
ReplyDeleteIt might be a good thing they don't normally get that big.
ReplyDeleteI have had to shoot hundreds of these critters to keep them away from the calves and the biggest was at most 69 lbs.
Paul in Texas
100 fuckin' pounds!!
ReplyDeleteThat is the king 'yote.
He didn't get that big eating mice.
Yeah, on the west side of the Sierra, if he tops 35 pounds he's a whopper.
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