Coyote Hunt Registration

2025 Annual Coyote Hunt Rules and Regulations

• Each participant must be registered for this hunt. When hunting in groups, each member of the group must be registered, or the entire group will be disqualified.
• You can register online (below), at the Club, or by mail. Write “Coyote Hunt” on the envelope when sending the application in the mail. Please include a self-addressed stamped envelope to defer costs. If mailing in the application, it must be postmarked by January 20, 2025.
• Each participant must be a 2025 member of the Sinnemahoning Sportsmen’s Association. If you are not a member now, you can apply for a membership when you register for the hunt. If applying online, renew or apply for 2025 membership FIRST and then register for the coyote hunt. Click here to complete our online membership registration.
• A registration fee of $10.00 plus a $2.00 administration fee for a total of $12.00 must be paid with the registration. There is an optional $5.00 additional fee to enter for the heaviest female coyote and an additional $5.00 for the heaviest fox. 
• No registrations are taken on the days of the hunt. The last day to register may be done at the club Thursday, February 6, 2025, until 11:59 PM or online on February 3, 2025, until 11:59 PM.  If you are registered, you can start to hunt at 12:01 a.m. on Friday, February 7, 2025. The hunt and weigh-ins will end on Sunday, February 9, 2025, at 3pm.
• Coyotes & Foxes must be killed by legal means during the days of the hunt. 
• Hunting will be permitted state wide in Pennsylvania. Participants must have the proper license and obey all the game laws in the state of Pennsylvania while hunting.
• Calls and dogs can be used to hunt coyotes & foxes. Trapping is allowed.
• The Sinnemahoning Sportsmen’s Association reserves the right to have an autopsy performed on the animal if we feel that the animal was kept in a pen or was taken illegally. A veterinarian will be available to enforce this regulation. SSA respects your honesty as a sportsman, and we hope that you respect the organization. 
• Official weigh-ins will be done at the Club on Friday, February 7, 2025, from 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., Saturday, February 8, 2025, from 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. and Sunday, February 9, 2025, from 8:00 a.m. to 3 p.m. The deadline for weigh-in is 3 p.m. on Sunday, February 9, 2025 – prizes will be awarded after weigh-ins.
• W9’s must be completed for prizes over $600.
• Each hunter is responsible for the disposal of his or her coyote & fox carcasses.
• Prizes will be awarded by check, after the proper tax forms are completed and handed in if prize money is over $600.

Please ask for permission to hunt on private land!