Coyote Hunt Registration

2023 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, 2023.
• Each participant must be a 2023 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. 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 or online on Thursday, February 9, 2023, until 11:59 PM.  If you are registered, you can start to hunt at 12:01 a.m. on Friday, February 10, 2023. The hunt and weigh-ins will end on Sunday, February 12, 2023, 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 10, 2023, from 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., Saturday, February 11, 2023, from 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. and Sunday, February 12, 2023, from 8:00 a.m. to 3 p.m. The deadline for weigh-in is 3 p.m. on Sunday, February 12, 2023 – 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!