Murphy and Hanscom at Rolfe Beagle Club’s Statewide Coyote and Crow Hunt

Terry Murphy, a predator hunter from down state, was up in McKean County over the holiday weekend and watching a field in the evening hours of Saturday. At midnight he noticed a coyote chasing a fawn out into the field. Terry harvested the 30.2# male coyote with a 6mm rifle. The coyote had a unique reddish color to the fur. He was hunting private lands. Terry said, “I didn’t need any calls, didn’t need any bait; it just chased the fawn near enough I could get a clean shot. I watched three different fawns get chased by coyotes.”

Adam Hanscom was hunting public lands in Cameron County and a small coyote came in all by itself to a mouth call. Adam uses a red light. He harvested the female coyote (11.2#) with a 12-gauge shotgun near 9:45 p.m. on Sunday. We suspect the small coyote was struggling to survive because it appeared by itself and had no other siblings near.

Weigh-in is at 6:00 p.m. every day over the ten days of the Rolfe Beagle Club hunt, thru 9/6. Hunters are reminded that Rolfe Beagle Club’s Predator Hunt or Trap will take place over two weekends in February.

Photo – Terry Murphy with his reddish color coyote.