KyCarl
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I try to kill everyone I see! Even hit them with my truck if I can!
Fawn Killer Gets Lead Poisoning, Is that a good thing?
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Shoot everyone you see. For everyone you see there more that you don't.
BrentM
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Smoke them every chance I get. They contribute to 30% of deer death rate.
BKMF
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I shoot about 30 a year, best year was 84 in North Central Washington, I shoot them mainly from November-Early February and I can't tell any difference in population. If I see one in my off season, I gladly shoot it as well. If hides are good and worth anything on given year I turn into fur buyer, if not I leave them lay. I see no benefit in Coyotes other than a worthy opponent, they are predators and very smart-I shoot every one I can.
Okanogan
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The one on the left is the fawn with its rear ham partly eaten. The one on the right is the yote. Sorry not a great picture but I just left them where they lay. The fawn is still there this morning which surprises me as I thought a bear or more yotes would have gotten it by now.
Kill ever song dog you can. Unfortunately. "Shootaday's" comment is correct. They are capable of increasing thier reproduction based on predator pressure on them.
Rusty PW
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My gun club has a $30.00 bounty on coyotes here in south west Pa. I've nailed a few with my 7 RM.
DDWing
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The only good yote, is a dead one.
LOL A Man to admire. Get Em!!!!
billflangjr813
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Well when I'm Deer hunting, and I see coyotes. I'm coyote hunting. That's my input on coyotes!!
Northerngos
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Folks who think that predators need to be eliminated ought to tour some of the military bases where deer multiply unchecked. It's disgusting. They don't only kill sick or weak animals but they do kill the impaired when they find them and that's a very very important thing if you don't like disease spreading unchecked. I'm waiting to see if someone will do a well funded study on how coyotes and wolves affect the spread of cwd in ungulates (if they do), or the new disease that is wiping rabbits and hares out like wildfire.
Another important point to consider is the way coyotes respond to "predation". They do indeed have far more pups when the population is under pressure than they do in a stable population. Anybody who has ever raised predators can tell you that growing pups (or kits, or kittens or whatever) eat a literal **** ton of meat. And the parents are consuming more in order to fuel all the hunting they need to do. If you believe coyotes kill all of the fawns that they can, what do you think they are feeding those pups? Saying "they just have more pups anyways, you can never kill them all, so kill as many as you can" mathematically makes zero sense. Better to say "I enjoy killing things in the off season and coyotes fit the bill."
I enjoy hunting everything, coyotes included. I live in the country and have a variety of livestock both domestic and exotic. I have had a few issues over the years with fawn predation and poultry predation etc and found it most effective to scare the **** out of them when I catch them at it. When I shoot them somebody else moves right in. I can hear multiple packs from my porch every night, and I've probably lost three free range chickens total in the last four or so years because they educate the pups to give me a wide berth. I don't really care what people do, and as I said I enjoy hunting coyotes, but I make it a point to do so elsewhere so I can keep my well behaved locals alive and I do it in the winter when the pelts are prime.
Another important point to consider is the way coyotes respond to "predation". They do indeed have far more pups when the population is under pressure than they do in a stable population. Anybody who has ever raised predators can tell you that growing pups (or kits, or kittens or whatever) eat a literal **** ton of meat. And the parents are consuming more in order to fuel all the hunting they need to do. If you believe coyotes kill all of the fawns that they can, what do you think they are feeding those pups? Saying "they just have more pups anyways, you can never kill them all, so kill as many as you can" mathematically makes zero sense. Better to say "I enjoy killing things in the off season and coyotes fit the bill."
I enjoy hunting everything, coyotes included. I live in the country and have a variety of livestock both domestic and exotic. I have had a few issues over the years with fawn predation and poultry predation etc and found it most effective to scare the **** out of them when I catch them at it. When I shoot them somebody else moves right in. I can hear multiple packs from my porch every night, and I've probably lost three free range chickens total in the last four or so years because they educate the pups to give me a wide berth. I don't really care what people do, and as I said I enjoy hunting coyotes, but I make it a point to do so elsewhere so I can keep my well behaved locals alive and I do it in the winter when the pelts are prime.
First, well done sir and good recount of the event.
I am like you, they are a part of the system and I like to see all of God's critters. I enjoy listening to them call at night too. That said, we have had an explosion in coyote population in Kentucky. Our rule is if you see them, you shoot them.
Any time I come across one and have a rifle with me which is most of the time. I will put them down if safe. What more problem is dogs packing up at night. They kill deer and don't eat them. Where I hunted a great many years ago. We had a problem with peoples dogs. Found dead deer but not eaten. We saw dogs changing the deer. So we took on the dogs. That ended that crap. I haven't seen where where coyotes kill and leave lay just for killing. Wolves on the other hand kill and leave lay. This has happen several time with sheep. If I remember correctly Utah put a bounty on the coyotes.
