how'd you do?

smitty · Feb 23, 2014

Haven't seen many pics of dead yotes this year.

I turned in 22 at the fur auction down in Nephi, killed another one yesterday.

Thought I'd done pretty good this year, but ran into a local in Nephi that said he and his hunting partner had killed 197 and that another guy in town had killed over 400! When you start talking numbers like that, it can make a guy feel downright inadequate!

Anyhow, hope guys are out killing some fur turbos. It's one of the funnest things that I do.

ELKOHOLIC · Feb 23, 2014

I'm at 21 and I thought I was doing ok. It don't even seem possible they are killing that many. That would have to be their full time job. Add in all the expenses and well they might as well be working at Mcdonalds.

Geko42 · Feb 24, 2014

The govt trappers here in wyo fly it pretty hard and keep the boom on them pretty good. Calling isnt fun anymore. But we dont have a yote problem.

hezzy · Feb 27, 2014

Smitty- hey quick question if ya want to answer if not I understand. Do you get the bounty as well as sell at the fur sale? I hear they take a cut of the ear. just wondering. Thanks

smitty · Feb 27, 2014

yep the DWR is there, they take a tooth and notch the ears and then you get a lot number and turn them into the fur auction where they get sold to the highest bidder.

So for example, I averaged $40 per fur + $50 on Utah dogs for the bounty. Not a ton of money, but I still cashed the check!

Gunnie3035 · Mar 2, 2014

197 and 400 from Utah using coventual methods, impossible. Now if you had 10 friends from various westerns states trapping and shooting then maybe. Think about what sort of numbers (population) even a great full-time caller or trapper would need to get those numbers. My guess is they have goverment friends who are flyers or maybe they run around the western US buying contest dogs. It would be interesting to see a chart of the 600 waypoints. Ya can't tell me when the biologist plug all these numbers in they don't suspect fraud. Eventually someone is going to get popped doing this and it will end the program.

smitty · Mar 2, 2014

I don't know man, just reporting what the guy told me. Neither of them turn the dogs into the state for bounty, they sell them privately. Just for that fact, they didn't want anybody snooping around.

Take it for what it's worth. I was just blown away by the numbers.