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Coyote impact opinions

giles

Cull buck specialist
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Some boys down the road from me putting in work!
 

brancher147

Junior Member
You can't kill enough coyotes! They're worse than any groundhog population, any where, any time. Do coyotes impact the deer populations? Hell yes!!!

I have landowners that I hunt on their properties, that have trail cameras by coyote dens and have counted any where from 4 to 9 fawns being brought back to feed the pups...on two separate dens, just last year. This kind of killing will ruin a deer population, in short order!

I stopped shooting does, 3 years ago and I don't think it was soon enough. Last fall, I seen 2 does during the entire season. In years past, it was not uncommon to see 5 to 8 does per week.

Some guys will stop hunting coyotes during the spring months to give the pups a chance to get weaned from their mothers. Not me! :smiley_armscrossed: I'll kill them 24/7 and show them the same mercy they show the fawns...NONE! I want them off of the planet. :smiley_arrogant:

Bowhunter57

I hear people talk about these cameras on coyote dens all the time. The funny thing is I have never seen a picture posted backing the statement up. I would love to see some pics of coyotes bringing fawns back to dens. Somebody please post some.
 

antiqucycle

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How many of you killed a deer in season and walked past the gut pile 12 hours later and noticed it was completely gone!!!!!!!!!!! Never pass up a chance to wack a yote even if its stopped in the middle of a country road. Really pay attention during spring turkey as coyotes will come out of nowhere if they hear a turkey call.

If you don't have a motion detector light in your back yard, install one with two flood lights.
 

Bigslam51

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Went out on a groundhog mission with my buddy this evening. Took the yote caller also just because. Wasn't seeing any hogs so I started calling yotes at 7:45. Started with a male howl, then went into a fawn distress, had a turkey decoy 50 yards out in the field also for some visual excitement. I did about a 2 minute fawn distress sequence and then went silent. Wasn't 3 minutes later and I told my buddy we have a yote in the top left corner of the alfalfa field at 130 yards. He got on him and the yote came running in hot after the Turk decoy, fugger stopped at 80 yards and he let him have it right in the chest with his new savage semi auto .17hmr. The bastard was hit hard but somehow made it another 80-90 yards into the woods and we never found him. Fuggers gotta be dead though. That was the most textbook yote hunt I've ever been on, except we couldn't find it.
 

Bigslam51

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It's dead, the buzzards will get it....
He did the classic move where they try to bite the spot where they got hit. It was fuggin awesome. Had more yotes fire up around 8:30 after we moved to the top field, couldn't get them to come in though.
 

"J"

Git Off My Lawn
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Last one I shot was during the muzzleloader season a while ago... 25 yards broadside... Right behind the shoulder... Took off and ran a 100+ yards into a swamp and a buddy who I was hunting with watched it do a death spin... It bit at the wound initially as well...
 

hickslawns

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17hmr is a great round. Might be a little light for a yote unless it was a perfect hit. They are tough critters. Given the carnage they deliver to so many other animals, I don't care if you only injured it. It was given a taste of its own medicine. Hopefully it died though. If so, you saved many other animals.
 

Bigslam51

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17hmr is a great round. Might be a little light for a yote unless it was a perfect hit. They are tough critters. Given the carnage they deliver to so many other animals, I don't care if you only injured it. It was given a taste of its own medicine. Hopefully it died though. If so, you saved many other animals.
I don't care if it's wounded either, but he sure did struggle to get out of the field. Here's a pic of our setup, I first saw him in the top left corner of the field, you can see my hen decoy out in front of us.uploadfromtaptalk1466996696954.jpg
 

Swampwalker

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coyotes hit the fawn population hard, especially if there's not a lot of brush/grass for the fawns to hide in. They kill mature deer by running them until they eventually get pushed onto frozen bodies of water where they can't stand up.

The only good coyote is a dead one
 

Redhunter1012

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I fear the coyotes will be more prevalent around here this year. We have a large group of dedicated yote hunters around here that usually decimate them whenever we get snow. Last 2 winters have lacked any snow around here. noticed a couple more yotes last gun/muzzy season around here. We did kill a couple. I tend to see quite a few of them once the wheat fields are down around here.
 

giles

Cull buck specialist
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Wheat harvest is about done here. I heard they were just getting started up your way. I plan to do a little field sitting this weekend. We will see what happens though...probably get thirsty and forget all about it.
 

Bigslam51

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Wheat harvest is about done here. I heard they were just getting started up your way. I plan to do a little field sitting this weekend. We will see what happens though...probably get thirsty and forget all about it.
Holy fugg Dave, take your ass out at 7pm and call til 9. You can get thirsty after that!