Are you guys still able to hunt these?

Season on coati runs September 1 through March 31. Depending on which mountain range your in there are quite a few. They are a mostly just a target of opportunity though.

Thanks M8!

They readily respond to a varmint call. Look for them in the oaks along the border south of Tucson. The Santa Rita, Huachuca and Patagonia mountains have good numbers of them.

Bill Quimby

Thanks Bill,

Will do!

I work for a gunsmith, this week I made a point of asking the regular customers if the had ever hunted coati. All said they had not but if in season and they saw one they might if it would not interfere with the rest of the hunt.
One said he knew a guy who shot one raiding the cooler in camp.

Mark

Try calling and glassing open scree slopes in our oak country. Coatis eat the things they find crawling under rocks.

Bill Quimby

Had to share my coati experience if you don't mind.

January 2012 I was on a lion hunt near Silver City, NM. We set up and turned on the varmint calls. Not 15 minutes go by and my outfitter starts "quick, quick, over here"....Of course I'm thinking cat....Nope it was about 15 coatis 60 yards away all hopping around the boulders/etc.

It was pretty cool seeing all that.

Heeler75,

Too bad the Land of Enchantment does not have a Coati hunt.

Heeler - Sounds like quite a nice experience. Just goes to show we don't have to kill "EVERYTHING that walks on four legs" here in New Mexico to have great time in the outdoors.

Larry Sellers
SCI(International)Life Member
R8 Blaser
Sabatti "trash" Double Shooter

quote:

Originally posted by Big Wonderful Wyoming:
Heeler75,

Too bad the Land of Enchantment does not have a Coati hunt.

The biggest problem I have with killing one is I don't know what I would do with it.

There is entire stack of predators on my "wants list" but what to do with them?

I move too much internationally to have a solution.

Don't kill it, take a quality photo of one on a day or two expedition then frame it and put the pic on the wall. Problem solved. I do this quite often with critters I don't want to eat or can't donate to others to eat. Works for me.

Larry Sellers
SCI(International)Life Member
R8 Blaser

quote:

Originally posted by Big Wonderful Wyoming:
The biggest problem I have with killing one is I don't know what I would do with it.

There is entire stack of predators on my "wants list" but what to do with them?

I move too much internationally to have a solution.