BIG COATAMUNDI

[josh]

My buddy Larry Maniag had this big male coati walk by him the other day and made a great shot on it.Way to go on an awesome trophy Larry dog!

[DesertBull]

Nice! I been wanting to get one of those.

[mr.smith]

Saw about ten of those on my December hunt in 33. It was early and I had hopes of shooting a deer that day so I let them pass.

[mikep35]

Saw about ten of those on my December hunt in 33. It was early and I had hopes of shooting a deer that day so I let them pass.

 

10? Holy crap I've only seen 2 my whole life! Thats amazing! Were you on a coati farm?

[mattys281]

Had one of those things scare the crap outta me about 2 weeks ago while walking back to my truck. It was about 7 feet up in a mesquite tree & decided that when I was about 5 feet away from that mesquite it was the perfect time to launch out of it & take off as fast as it could across the flat! That'll get your attention.

 

Congrats to you buddy, that's a big coati.

 

Matt S.

[grizzly]

That looks like a Q2XL, still have mine and its a great bow. I think I saw your buddy in one of those beheading videos.

[mr.smith]

10? Holy crap I've only seen 2 my whole life! Thats amazing! Were you on a coati farm?

They just started popping out from under a mesquite tree, looked like a small army scouring the hillside when they were all out.

[billrquimby]

"10? Holy crap I've only seen 2 my whole life! Thats amazing! Were you on a coati farm? "

 

 

Ten in a coati pack isn't unusual. I used to bring in a lot of them back when I did some varmint calling. They were easy to call when I was in their range, and when they came in they seemed reluctant to leave unless I shot. Simply yelling and standing up didn't spook them too badly. I don't know if it's true but I assumed they were territorial and if I saw a pack in a place I could go back and find them again. They seemed to like spots with shale slopes in oak country.

 

Bill Quimby

[audsley]

The most I've ever seen in one pack is 18 - 14 juveniles and 4 mommas. This bunch was coming down the bottom of a wash and talking up a storm, so I just stood there in camo trying to impersonate a stump. Worked pretty well until one of the lead coatis got within about 20 feet. Suddenly she started screaming her lungs out and the whole bunch took off up the side of the wash and out.

 

I've seen and heard them numerous times. The females and their young stay together and can be very vocal. The males are solitary. I've glassed up males and sometimes the only thing you see is a tail sticking straight up in the air and moving along. Never occurred to me to shoot one. I guess it would be cool to have one mounted. I believe their hides are worth nothing.

[billrquimby]

A word to the wise if you see a coati acting strangely: In the 1980s someone studied the packs in the Coronado National Memorial near Sierra Vista and learned that their numbers were controlled by outbreaks of rabies and that rabies is always present among them, the same as with bats, skunks, foxes and coyotes.

 

Bill Quimby

[GodIsGood]

I took shot one last week from my treestand - mostly for therapy - because I was only seeing spikes n does. As I was taking him off the mountain at dark, a pod of them were trying to avoid me by escaping down the same trail.... they finally scrambled into trees on either side of the trail and kept snarling and snorting at me.

 

I figured I must have whacked a close friend or relative of theirs and was actually nervous they were gonna bum-rush me. I counted 12, and the trees they occupied were only 3-5 on either side of the trail.

 

YIKES!

 

Gonna have the taxidermist mount it with a piece of camo cloth in its teeth!

 

 

PS I heard from someone they are not indiginous to AZ... that Walt Disney shot a movie here in AZ decades ago and released a bunch of them after they shot the movie - they multiply like rats!