Concur with everyone, shoot all you see and never look back. The number of people out trapping has seriously declined in the last decade as well since fur prices are so low. In upstate NY where I own land and my father has a farm they are now seeing more and more Coyotes as well. Never had a one in that part of the country 20 years ago. We used to trap Red and Grey Fox, Racoons, Mink, Muskrats (Swap Rabbits down here), and kept the furbearer/varmit population in check between trapping and shooting. Dad killed a Coyote two weeks ago chasing 6 wild turkeys behind his pond, 200 yards from his back door.
Shoot them all!!!
if your on a lease or a patch of land where you want to do some deer management kill em. Otherwise don't care for them. on public land sometimes thats all you might see and hey all the money you spend driving and scouting kill it!. take a pic and have a pic with a record of your kill to show your kids.
It is funny now that I look back on how I came to shoot this yote. I got a permit to hunt the Yucca Pens and decided to take two days off work to do a Thursday thru Sunday hunt. Me and my roommate got down there at 7am on Thursday to hunt. We started walking through the wood when it started to rain. We thought that it would blow over so we kept going. When we got about a mile back in the woods we realized that it was not going to stop so we turned left and walked about a quarter mile before turning back towards the truck so not to walk back the same track that we started out on. Half way back to the truck we ran into a swamp and proceeded to walk about a half mile through shin deep water. My room mate was freaking out because he is horrified of snakes (I thought it was helarious).
When we got back to the truck we went to higher ground and decided to cook some lunch on the coleman grill we brought. The grill did not want to work! We then decided to head down the road a bit further. That is when we blew the starter and had to call a buddy from St. Pete to come pick us up.
We went back on Saturday morning with a new starter and fixed the truck on a dirt road in Yucca. When we stopped by the check station to sign out we were informed that the guys that we had meet there the first day that we were going to do some walk hunting with shot a 10 point on Friday.
Thats when we decided to head to my property in Inverness to do a Sunday morning hunt. I was sitting in my stand using a doe call when the first yote ran by my stand. He was a beast but by the time I realized that he was not a germany shepard he had disappeared (first time I have seen a yote). Thats when the small female walked out and I had to take my hunting frestrations out on her.
That turned out to be a very expensive long weekend!
I shot two several years ago and then got them off the food plot and realized they were just pups, not actually full adult coyotes. That I did feel remorse for. They seem to be tracking a doe and yearling that had fed on the plot earlier. I normally don't feel any remorse at all for shooting them and will kill'em quickly.
I shot two several years ago and then got them off the food plot and realized they were just pups, not actually full adult coyotes. That I did feel remorse for. They seem to be tracking a doe and yearling that had fed on the plot earlier. I normally don't feel any remorse at all for shooting them and will kill'em quickly.
Little ones turn into big ones. Shooting the little ones just means you were able to hit a smaller target. :toast
