2009-2010 Coyote Photo Contest Rules
Any Legally Harvested Yote in ANY USA State!!!
(We no longer post Coyote photos of live animals in traps, they must be harvested by trappers, all coyotes must be dispatched for entry into this contest!)
MaineHunters.com will Give a $50 Gift Certificate to Cabelas For the Best "Photo" Entry!!! And there will be a Second Prize Certificate of $25.00 to Cabelas as well. June 2nd, 2009 - Through June 1st 2010 MaineCoyote.com's OFFICIAL Photo Contest Season.
It's Simple to enter! Send us your Name, Address, Photo, Stats, and Hunt Story and Your Photo will be entered into the Photo Contest, winners are selected by a hand picked team of Mainehunters.com staff and friends, the selection process is narrowed down to the two final winners in June 2010!
This contest is intended to encourage the harvest of coyotes and to foster more sportsman to hunt and harvest this predator that is "over populated" and destroying, Maine and other States game populations at an increasingly high rate. Snaring coyotes in Maine has been eliminated by Anti hunting groups and now we hunters & trappers have to thin them out one at a time or all game species are in danger. Coyotes are in such large numbers in all areas of the State of Maine, that healthy deer are being run down and killed, wise old turkeys sit in trees all day for fear of landing to be attacked by coyotes, in the deep snow Turkeys land in the morning and are attacked and helpless, domestic cats and dogs are being eaten and killed as food for coyotes, rabbits, grouse and all small game are targets of these predators. The list of their destruction can go on and on! The facts are in.. coyotes are predators, they are over populating since snaring was outlawed in Maine, the problem is here and sportsman have an opportunity to manage this problem, their is NO-Closed Season on coyotes here in Maine and in most USA States! Hunting opportunities are year around!
So check your local State laws and give it a try, coyote hunting is by far one of the most challenging hunting sports in the world!
Barry Hammond -Livermore, Maine 35lb female yote was chasing mice in AM, spooked her then called her back with mouse squeaks!
Barry Hammond - 32lb 3oz male came to call
Dennis Theriault - MH Pro Staff July 21, 2009 high noon summer coyote!
Jason Spencer and Darin Doughty & hounds held this coyote at bay for over 30 minutes untill Darin shot him.
Jennifer Andrews -Dover, TN. black coyote 31 lbs. with a 223 at 223 yards. I had my range finder resting on top of my scope. Oct. 13th, 2009 around 10 am
Tommy Andrews - Dover,Tn. 3:00p.m. Shot it at about 125 yards with same 223 I killed my black one. They were both females. (See Jennifer Andrews photo this section!)
Robert Rembold - Elizabeth, IN 10/28/09 11:20pm @ 150 yards using savage 10fp police tactical .308 37lbs female.
Scott G Baker Casco Me.Female I shot on Oct. 20. 216yds with the 17 Bird Of Prey (wildcat) 25grain Berger @4275fps DRT
Tommy Andrews - Dover, Tn 11/13/2009 shot the same spot he killed the black one this week.
Chevy and His dad walked up on this coyote early mornin. 27 pound female, Knoxville Illinois. Remington 700 sps varmint. 45 grain holo jagid point. 300 yard shot.
John Mcilhinney - Casco Me. Female shot on Sept. 10, 80yds with the 17 Bird of Prey (wildcat) 25 grain Berger @ 4011fps out of my AR15. She came into Lucky Bird on the Foxpro.
Caleb Andreatta - Mt.Sterling, Illinois 75 yard shot. spooked him down the fence line and walked from other end and got him to come back in 2 minutes. 40 plus pound male, chest shot. remington 700 sps 22-250 45 grain holo jagid point.
Jason Spencer Darin and the boys! Two before noon!
Patten, Maine Saturday Dec 26th. Mixer and two puppies held this coyote at bay for over a hour before the boys got to them. Jason Spencer
Scott Bragg shot this nice 40 pound female at his house. 100 yard shot. he got one of the 4 he saw with his 22-250 ruger, 45 holo jagid point. Gilson Illinois
Buddy Menard - Chester NH Jan. 2010 - 34 pound male came in with a huge wounded coyote and another. This one spooked and was sending them all on their way but they were not all getting away easy! 12 gauge buckshot
David Thayer - MaineHunters.com Pro-Staff , New Durham NH , The coyote was shot up by the Pittston Farm in Northwestern Maine, he was trying to snack on a dead deer in the river untill we showed up. The Pittston Farm use to have one of the largest deer yards in the state of Maine. Now its down to around 20 deer total. The cat was shot not to far from there. Paul Laney's dogs jumped the cat off a dead deer and ran it right up a tree.
Coyote shot by Darren and ran with Larry's and Darren's hounds Jan 20, 2010
Verona Island with (from right) Jason Spencer, Rob Thomas, and Norman Kirby in front of Mixer, Jack, and Hank. Ran double coyotes for seven hours.
Scott Bragg got this 36 pound male at 150 yards. 22-250 ruger 45 grain holo jagid piont. He came in to the woodpecker call on my wildlife technology caller but was a little spoked about coming to fast.
A little staged Coyote Humor.. Coyote Attack! Scott Bragg got this 36 pound male at 150 yards. 22-250 ruger 45 grain holo jagid piont. Illinois
David Thayer - MaineHunters.com Pro-Staff - New Durham, NH with 2 coyotes! 2/3/2010
I shot the darker one last night at 10pm and the light colored one about a week ago at 9 pm at the same bait. I have a bobcat at that bait daily, to bad we cant hunt um! The 2 fox, 1 grey & 1 red taken off a different bait both in the morning about 7:30am. That makes 5 yotes and 3 fox so far, love huntin them predators. I know the deer and turkeys like it!
Pro Staff David Thayer shot this coyote in New Hampshire off a bait pile. Looks like mange had got a pretty good hold on this yote! Not very pretty, but no one can argue this coyote needed to be put down! Great job Dave.. I think you should get this one mounted for your man room!! :)
Leslie Hiscock, Burgeo, NL, Here a 38-Lb Male I call in with the Fox Pro on Feb 02-2010.
George “Chip” Cayer, Rumford, Maine - These six (6) were taken all in the same night!
Pictures of January and February 2010 Yotes harvested by my best friend and I over bait. Some taken early morning and some at dusk with daylight conditions. Several taken at night with good moon conditions. Twelve coyote so far, five females in the bunch. This coyote harvest is in the heart of a large deeryard and we are very happy with this years result. We are using a Winchester Model 70 Coyote in .243 using my own hand loads. (47gr. IMR 4350, Federal Gold Medal Match primer, 70gr Sierra BTHP Match bullet traveling at 3300 FPS.) Great load, try it!
George “Chip” Cayer, Rumford, Maine
Pictures of January and February 2010 Yotes harvested by my best friend and I over bait. Some taken early morning and some at dusk with daylight conditions. Several taken at night with good moon conditions. Twelve coyote so far, five females in the bunch. This coyote harvest is in the heart of a large deeryard and we are very happy with this years result. We are using a Winchester Model 70 Coyote in .243 using my own hand loads. (47gr. IMR 4350, Federal Gold Medal Match primer, 70gr Sierra BTHP Match bullet traveling at 3300 FPS.) Great load, try it!
George “Chip” Cayer, Rumford, Maine
Pictures of January and February 2010 Yotes harvested by my best friend and I over bait. Some taken early morning and some at dusk with daylight conditions. Several taken at night with good moon conditions. Twelve coyote so far, five females in the bunch. This coyote harvest is in the heart of a large deeryard and we are very happy with this years result. We are using a Winchester Model 70 Coyote in .243 using my own hand loads. (47gr. IMR 4350, Federal Gold Medal Match primer, 70gr Sierra BTHP Match bullet traveling at 3300 FPS.) Great load, try it!
George “Chip” Cayer, Rumford, Maine With Number 12 for 2010!
Bill Sylvain II -Waterville Me, I shot the coyote in Clinton Maine on March 9th
I just started coyote hunting this year, This is my first coyote, a 43 lb male. I am hooked for life.
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Jason Spencer - Maine and his crew! - We killed two this week the one we killed Wednesday was to nasty to even bring out of the woods. This big 50 pound male was nice, a very quick run when the hounds jumped him! Shot by Mike Lancaster in Knox Maine. Shot in front of the hounds across a big field with his .243. First hunt we had Mixer, Patty and a 8 months old pup and they never missed a beat. Second coyote we had mixer and 2 male pups on. Auto and Jack both pups are only 10 months old!
A good friend Leo Pepin & I spent the winter shooting coyotes out of our heated shack. We managed to kill (confirmed) 17 and at least one probable(catch & release). It was our best winter to date. 1 bobcat was also taken.The secret is simply putting the time in and always have bait out there! The deer around the lake are grateful. See you in the woods. Jeff Gurney
A good friend Leo Pepin & I spent the winter shooting coyotes out of our heated shack. We managed to kill (confirmed) 17 and at least one probable(catch & release). It was our best winter to date. 1 bobcat was also taken.The secret is simply putting the time in and always have bait out there! The deer around the lake are grateful. See you in the woods. Jeff Gurney
A good friend Leo Pepin & I spent the winter shooting coyotes out of our heated shack. We managed to kill (confirmed) 17 and at least one probable(catch & release). It was our best winter to date. 1 bobcat was also taken.The secret is simply putting the time in and always have bait out there! The deer around the lake are grateful. See you in the woods. Jeff Gurney
A good friend Leo Pepin & I spent the winter shooting coyotes out of our heated shack. We managed to kill (confirmed) 17 and at least one probable(catch & release). It was our best winter to date. 1 bobcat was also taken.The secret is simply putting the time in and always have bait out there! The deer around the lake are grateful. See you in the woods. Jeff Gurney
Arthur Morrissette - Sidney, Maine
My mother in-law told me two days ago they had a coyote go through their back yard twice that morning. So being off from work today I figured I would take a chance and see if it was still in the area. The area I hunted were a set of fields only half a mile from their back yard. As I walked on the edge of the fields I didn't see anything and was in hopes of hearing some turkeys. When I approached the last feild I caught a glimpse of this coyote probably 250 to 300 yards out at the other end, then I quickly tried to hide myself in the treeline and started calling with some mouse squeaks, but then lost sight of it for about 15 minutes due to a knowl in the field. So I stood up to get a better look and could see that the coyote was alone and it was looking for mice. I figured it couldn't hear my call so I started with a rabbit in distress call and that got it's attention. Man that thing came running right toward me without even any hesitation. When it was about 80 yards from me I couldn't take it anymore and with one shot from my Remington R25 in 308 win that coyote was put to rest. My mother-inlaw was very happy.
Andrew Lewand -This hunt occured in March 2010 near Oswego, NY. I had been calling all night with various degrees of success and coyote response. I finally connected with a prime male coyote that charged into the Foxpro Fury after a long sequence of coyote howls and distress sounds. The rifle used was a Remington 700 in .223. What makes hunt even more memorable is that I was able to capture the essence of the hunt in this unique picture. As I approach to inspect the trophy, the rising sun illuminates both the coyote and me while leaving shadows over the frozen terrain.
Jeff Lemay- Sanford, Maine 32 pound female. Shot during the 2010 spring turkey season in Maine.
Shane Maurice - Shot with Muzzle Loader in Somersworth , NH came right into the cheapest call you can buy...the mouth squeak.
mainehunters – November 10, 2009, 7:26 am