Bonavista hunter shoots large coyote!!

[Edward Smith]

Story courtesy of The Telegram

Published on March 14, 2012

A hunter has shot what is believed to be one of the biggest coyotes ever recorded in Newfoundland and Labrador. Joe Fleming of Spillers Cove, near Bonavista, shot the animal near Half Way Pond on the Bonavista Peninsula on Monday after tracking it for about a month.

The coyote was double the size of regular large coyotes. It weighed in at 37 kilograms (82lbs).

“I’ve been hunting a long time. This is the biggest one I’ve seen, the biggest one I’ve weighed,” Fleming, a crab fisherman, told The Telegram.

When he first saw the tracks a couple months ago, Fleming said he thought it was a lynx and hoped it wasn’t trailing him to jump him.

But then he realized there was a small coyote travelling with the animal.

Some people have commented the animal is more like a wolf, than a coyote. But Fleming said wildlife officials are convinced it’s a coyote, adding officials have taken blood and hair samples.

More in Thursday’s Telegram.

Fleming brought the carcass to wildlife officials in Clarenville and says DNA and blood samples have been taken in an attempt to determine why this particular animal was so large.

He says he knew the carcass had to be preserved so he took it to an outdoor supply store in Lewisporte where it will go on display once it is mounted.

[joe fleming]

thank you.and it was a surprise.

[Allan Nippard]

Question is. is there more out there bigger?  looks to me as if the Newfounland wolf found a way to make its mark back on the island after all!

[Allan Nippard]

lol also looks like Joe will be winning the 22.250 that Blue Ridge in  Lewisporte has as 1st prize in the largest coyote contest lol congrats Joe  

[Peter Emberley]

COYZILLA

Congrats Joe

 

[kenneth Griffiths]

Glad someone got it. Congrats Joe. Ps If you don't win the gun i am not going back into the woods.lolol