Cold weather coyotes
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Those with the light-colored coats should fetch you some $$.
Sadly the buyers wont even buy them this year. The buyer we used in the past told me that he lost money on every hide he sold at auction last spring.
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Sorry to hear that. I think a coyote jacket is a beautiful garment. PETA has made fur a bad thing. I guess it's better to have hides rot than turning them into something useful.
Dogs or calling?
Neither. Spot and stalk.
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Bumping/Hijacking the thread for specific thread questions, posted here and [eventually] elsewhere ...
My son and I went coyote hunting today, first time. Southern Colorado, BLM/National Forest land. About 10 degrees when we arrived pre-dawn, I was shooter, he was calling. Son said cold weather is preferred because they still have the full winter fur. Area was mix of long open spaces, bunches of chico shrubs, and intermediate evergreen forestry. Clear shooting 50-300+/- yards.
Q: aside from freezing my ... extremities ... off, we had no action. No sightings, tracks in the area, no shots. Is cold weather coyote hunting preferred? If so, for any other reason than pelt quality?
-jb, skunked on coyote
My son and I went coyote hunting today, first time. Southern Colorado, BLM/National Forest land. About 10 degrees when we arrived pre-dawn, I was shooter, he was calling. Son said cold weather is preferred because they still have the full winter fur. Area was mix of long open spaces, bunches of chico shrubs, and intermediate evergreen forestry. Clear shooting 50-300+/- yards.
Q: aside from freezing my ... extremities ... off, we had no action. No sightings, tracks in the area, no shots. Is cold weather coyote hunting preferred? If so, for any other reason than pelt quality?
-jb, skunked on coyote
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Is there a coyote problem up there or what?
Personally I only kill for food.
Predators like them coyotes keep down the vermin. Now ya gotta kill 1k more vermin than them coyotes.
Personally I only kill for food.
Predators like them coyotes keep down the vermin. Now ya gotta kill 1k more vermin than them coyotes.
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If you enjoy hunting for food, consider shooting a coyote if you have the opportunity. I learned to trap from some biologists from the state of Alabama who work as trappers for the government. They told me about a study conducted on coyotes that included putting a game camera on a coyote den. Over the 6-8 week period when she was feeding her pups the camera captured the female bringing 26 deer fawns to the den. That’s one coyote. They admitted they don’t know if that’s a high number and this particular coyote is good at catching fawns or if it is an average number. Either way. That’s a heck of a lot of deer that are being killed by coyotes. With low fur prices people are not trapping/hunting predators like they once did and their populations are exploding across the US.
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Coyotes kill fawns and nesting birds - turkey, quail etc.
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I like the spot and stalk routine. What is your setup and rifle?
February is mating season and they are more mobile and easier to spot and usually in pairs. They also need more food in cold weather so they hunt more.
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Coyotes kill a lot of birds, deer, other game animals and pets and occasionally attack children.
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Not like there's a shortage of deer and wabbits. What ever turns your crank I guess.
Coyotes are a problem in my area. They are invading small towns and some towns are considering the possibility of letting residents shoot them in the city limits as residents are afraid to let their small children play out side.
I also live in an farming community and coyotes can also be a threat to live stock.
Something has to be done to control their population and I'm just doing my part.
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Anchorite
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Surprised your local USDA animal damage control guys aren’t out poisoning them.
earlthegoat2
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Coyote and coon control keeps deer and turkey populations up.
Thouh I have no problem with coyote culling and would do it myself if I perceived a problem, there are so many deer around here I don’t see them as a problem to the deer population but maybe more so, the turkey population.
Thouh I have no problem with coyote culling and would do it myself if I perceived a problem, there are so many deer around here I don’t see them as a problem to the deer population but maybe more so, the turkey population.
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Looks like a couple nice outings! Things are slow around here. In fall just before deer season the coyotes were out every night. Now after deer season I’ve only seen a couple tracks and they haven’t been calling back. Would love to have a day half as good as you had.
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It seems as if they just have bigger litters to compensate.
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There's all kinds of studies that show the more you try to eradicate predators like especially coyotes for some reason the more they proliferate. .
Just saying this has been going on for decades. Longer than some of these young so called "hunters" have been alive
Shooting from helicopters. Massive poisoning campaigns by the feds for decades.
And look where we're are now. There are more coyotes than ever. Take a hint.
Just saying this has been going on for decades. Longer than some of these young so called "hunters" have been alive
Shooting from helicopters. Massive poisoning campaigns by the feds for decades.
And look where we're are now. There are more coyotes than ever. Take a hint.
