Originally Posted by FieldGrade
Originally Posted by 257_X_50
If you live in an orchard we're on the same team. Coyotes and me.

See deer all over all the time. Can't kill enough of them.

Same with squirrels.........knock down 5 peaches and carry away one.

And that is just when you cruise thru.


Yep....everyone has their own thoughts about killing different critters but it usually boils down to "whatever's good for them" not the wildlife population....

Funny story and a good example of that....several of the big wheat growers around here believe that Coyotes keep the Vole population down so they have big signs up telling you that Coyote hunting/shooting is prohibited. Fine it's their land and they can feel anyway they want right or wrong but one day when I was traveling down a road that bordered one of those fields but it had a big canyon on the other side that wasn't posted I saw a nice prime Coyote in there so I stopped and shot it. While I was retrieving it some lady came roaring up and started shouting at me about shooting "her Coyotes". I said no mam, I shot my Coyote. Yours are over there in that wheat stubble. She said a bunch of other stuff but I won't repeat it. grin


I ran one orchard where we had standard trees 18-22" diameter.

We figured up to 5 bushels per tree from deer. Couple of thousand trees.........

During the year sitting in a stand just watching deer 50 a night was the norm.

Destroy new trees too. Lose 1/2 a planting and your views change.