Posted on 08/08/2016 12:35:10 PM PDT by w1n1
Coyotes will hurt our Deer Hunting
With the rise of coyote population, Quality Deer Managment Association data shows that 75 percent of the coyote population needs to be removed annually to control their population. But the reality is that hunting coyotes isn’t going to make a dent in decreasing their population due too many coyotes out there. Some hunters and land owners have talked of trapping, localized areas have had some successes. Trapping is still hard due to resource, man power and gasoline. Someone has to get out there and check the traps in the areas. Despite the efforts our deer and turkey population are still endangered. Read the rest of the story here.
“But the reality is that hunting coyotes isn’t going to make a dent in decreasing their population due too many coyotes out there.”
Pay a bounty and I bet you’ll see results.
The area where I live used to be loaded with Gamble’s quail, jackrabbits and cottontails. They, along with a large number of pets, are all gone now thanks to the coyotes. Envirowackos are so smart. I sure do miss listening to the quail. Oh well....
Late yesterday afternoon or early evening, I noticed a coyote eating pears which had fallen from my tree the previous few days.
I was looking through double pane windows which were not real clean plus a screen or I would have taken a picture. When I first looked, I thought for an instant that it was a deer but immediately recognized that it was a big coyote.
After looking for a few more seconds I knew something wasn’t quite right. It finally struck me that it was a dog/coyote mix. If I could have sneaked out without scaring him I would have shot him but I knew that would never happen. He was just too skittish.
Yep Mr. GG2 used to be a bounty hunter out West. He used to collect $25 per song dog. It can really add up. Farmers and ranchers would let him hunt deer, ducks, antelope etc as long as he culled the coyotes too.
Then half the people from lower 48 wants to kiss every last wolf we got up here; send money to all the politicians to get them to luv the wolves too. Palin was only one that wanted them dead so the moose might stand a chance and Alaskans might get be able to get their winter meat.
I wish all the wolf luvers down their would start worrying about their own cyotes in their back yards; or maybe take some of our wolves as they wipe the cyotes out quicker than anything.
Every wolf in Alaska eats 6 moose a year and we got over 30 K of them. Wolves take 4 times the moose people do in this state.
Here in Alabama they say that the wild hogs have gotten so plentiful that they have begun to eat the baby deer reducing the deer population substancially.
Which will impact deer hunting.
Working overnight at IBM outside of Boulder, CO there are A LOT of coyotes around there...made me nervous to walk out to the car sometimes.
That’s nature.
By allowing the deer population to explode, the greenies have created a target-rich environment for their natural predators.
Now what?
Hogs will literally eat anything, even each other should blood be exposed. They are a scourge on wildlife and the environment.
Here in East Texas the quail population has been hit by coyotes and fire ants, so we have no more quail or turkeys.
Coyotes are even is some densely populated Boston suburbs.
This would have been unheard of a few years ago.
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The wild hogs are the out-of-control predators here, too-not coyotes, mountain lions, etc-and they destroy crops- they can kill domestic pets and livestock like goats, too.
I wish more people knew what good, lean pork the ones a few years old are-that would lessen their numbers very shortly-there isn’t a terrible problem where I am, because no one has a problem hunting them and taking them to the locker plant to be processed and wrapped up for the freezer-but 50 miles south and west, they are all over the place and most people don’t hunt them much less eat them...
My wife took a picture of a coyote eating the fallen persimmons from our tree at 9am one winter weekday. That must have been one hungry coyote to be out in the broad daylight. Even the deer don’t usually come out at that time.
I know what you mean. I recently saw a map that showed that this predator normally found in the southwest now roams all over Canada and Alaska. We can thank the enviros for that.
I used to live near the Brazos River at Richmond, Texas.
Overpopulation produces weaker deer-easy prey for coyotes and other predators, and nature will fill any gap man makes in the balance of things-that is just a fact. There hasn’t been a deer cull because of overpopulation out here in a long time-not since there has been an effort to keep a good balance of predators and prey. I may have to get off a hiking trail if I see a mountain lion’s tracks, but at least the deer that get hunted and put in the freezer this fall will be healthy and fit to eat-greenies have never understood that natural balance thing-they always want to either not kill anything or kill all of a few species...
Here in California wild pheasant hunting has become
almost a thing of the past at least in rice country.
Blame modern farming techniques or lack of habitat but
I see the proliferation of the coyote population as the
main problem. Rice farmers don’t mind coyotes. They
snack on the mice and rats that eat rice sprouts. Combine
that with the fact that pheasants were an introduced
species with no large human support group and we find
only planted birds in silly assed clubs these days.
Technically Coy wolves here in MA.
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