What to do with an animal after you kill it?

Question

This is specific to coyote hunting, but would like to know about other animals you can hunt too.

So I was interested in hunting. I have never been but was always fasinated with the "hunt". Scouting, stalking and everything else you do to your prey. But what do people do with the animals they hunt? What are peoples options when it comes to this? Is there different options for archery than guns?

I don't know if it makes a difference, but I live in Arizona.

Answer 1

for a coyote you can either leave it for more coyotes to eat or skin him and tan the hide. For other game some people donate the meat but most eat it.

Answer 2

I to live in Arizona. To get a big game tag such as deer elk and turkey for rifle season you need to put in for a draw and if you are luckey enough to get a tag you go hunting. I got drawn for deer this year again. i have shot 2 deer here in arizona and after the kill you normaly take the deer in to a processor and for around 60 dollars they will turn your deer into steaks and roasts and things like that. for archery season you can basically just go out and buy a tag for most seasons and animals with the exception of antelope and elk. i hope this helps. o by the way coyote hunting is great and its open all year long! hope to meet you out in the feild some day.

Answer 3

animal skulls bring good bucks on eBay. $35.

Answer 4

As long as I am legally hunting with proper permits and authority I'll do what I d**n well please with the dead animal

The main purpose of hunting is game management the meat is a perk that I can give away or feed to my dog

Most of what I kill is considered vermin so I just skin it and stick it in a freezer till the day that I don't have anyone calling me to come get any more animals and I have time to tend to the pelts

I have three foxes two bobcats, five coons and a water moccasin to flesh out when i get around to it

And a couple of hog heads a cat and a dog to be Europeanized

I didn't kill the cat or dog, just drug them out from under a house

Answer 5

if you are not hunting animals for food you better not be killing animals coyotes dont apply to this. i have never shot an animal not intending to eat it or mount it

Answer 6

To add to the first answer some states have a bounty on coyotes and you can turn the corpse in for a little $$$

Answer 7

Well with deer I drag it to a clearing and take out all the guts and stuff...then I drag it to my truck and haul it to the place I can hang it up and skin/quarter it. Then I freeze it..and eventually I throw it on the grill or make some stew.  

Answer 8

With big game you usually skin and eat it. Maybe have it whole or in part taxadermed. Small game usually the same thing. Animals like javelina you could eat but most people just have body parts preserved or bleack the skulls. Coyotes are usually just for control as there pests. Fowl, you usually either eat them or stuff them. Some people hunt for decoration as well.

I live in AZ too but for javelina you need to be drawn in a lottery to get a liscence. One of my freinds was being charged by one so he killed it and only kept it's leg. If he wasn't being attacked he would of been in jail. I wan't a javelina skull on my desk. But I may just bleach all the bones. You don't need a liscence for coyotes. You can't hunt buffallo but I think it's like $800 for the liscence.

We plan to go rabbit hunting after the first frost. I still need to sight in my d**n scope on my 10/22.

Answer 9

The Chinese, Vietnamese, and some other Asians eat dogs, if you wanted to try eating coyote, you could prepare it the way they often do in Asia, stew it up with a lot of hot spices.  

Answer 10

when you kill some thing, like a deer or hog, you gut it skin it and cook it to eat. something like a coyote, that you can not (or should not)

eat, you can skin it or mount it. and used to guts as bait for more.

Answer 11

Yea pretty much like most are saying(not including a coyote) the respectable thing to do is eat it. Its a great feeling when you eat a meal that came from something you harvested out in the wild woods. And have fun with your new hobby, youll have years of great memories if you keep with it.