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Originally posted by Neal B.:
Hi guys,

Just wondering how rare these things are. Last year while deer hunting with my bow out of my tree stand the largest pack of coyotes I ever saw came by me. I live in eastern Mass. close to the RI. border. I hunt the swamps behind my house and the woods here are very thick so by the time they "filtered" through the small pines infront of me they were in bow range. I guestemated 10 to 14 of them spred out about 40 feet wide. Of these 2 looked "blond" in color. Definitly coyotes but golden retreiver in color. As luck would have it one of them stoped right infront of me at about 10 yrds. and I drove and arrow right down the top of it. It spun around in circles then hobbeled off. Other coyotes came over to it and kind were trying to flip it over to see what was wrong. It wasnt dead, just wounded. A few minutes later it moved out to about 60 yds. from me and went behind a downed tree where I lost sight of it. I kept my eyes on the area and about 5 Min. later saw the rest of the coyotes filter off the same way they came in. I saw the other blond one leave but not the one I shot. I waited at least an hour if not two before getting out of the tree to make sure it had bleed to death. I snuck out of the woods the back way then ran home and grabed my shot gun just incase it was alive still and tried to run. I came back expecting to find my beautiful trophy but found just found pools of blood. I dont know if I opened up its stomach with the arrow or it was pucking blood but there were pools of blood with what looked like deer parts mixed in. There was enough blood to keep a cow alive but no coyote. :-[ I searched the swamps for the whole day and couldn't find blood leaving the area or my coyote. Bummed me out big time. About two weeks later I was sitting against a big pine tree with my son and a muzzle loader watching over a path hopeing a doe would walk by for my son to take, when sure enough here comes a pack of coyote up the path. A big gray one looked right at us and I shot at it but missed. Don't ask me how. They took off down a hill to our right and of course there was the other blond coyote. Didn't see him when I shot. I was out of ammo.... We only had the muzzle loader at the time. I saw one good pack this year while in my tree during deer deason but no blond.

Two weeks ago at dawn I was out checking my traps that I've been recently setting witch I can't seem to get a coyote in. It was raining and windy. As I came up on one set of traps there was a blond coyote takeing off. I had my M1 carbine but no shot and it was gone in a flash. The only reason I saw him at all is because of the light color. Makes me wonder if I was 5 min. later if he would have been in the trap, he was only 15' from it. I MUST GET HIM!!! Hope I didn't bore you all with my story but have any of you seen one of these blond coyotes? Anybody have a picture of one? How rare are they?

I'm gonna have to get in my tree and try calling for them. The 1st one I shot [and only one recovered] I did it useing a wounded rabbit call but I was hunting specifically for coyote at the time and the past few times I called I've had no luck. That one was a plain jane gray coyote but he does look good on the wall. :-]