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Unless it's next to a trophy buck, it's bang flop.

If I've got a firearm, coyotes never get a pass.

We tell anyone hunting with us "If you see a coyote, you're no longer deer hunting, you're coyote hunting, and are expected to kill it"

Unless I'm in the middle of a stalk, they get smoked.




Dave

I never pass a shot on a coyote.

I skip the Shovel and Shut up part.

Go straight to the head on a pike part?

Dead coyote
Plenty of opportunities for deer in my area

I enjoy watching it.

Dead coyote.

One of the nicest deer I've taken was after killing a coyote on the way to my stand..

I only get 1 week a year to deer hunt. The coyotes get a pass 75% of the time during that week.

Not head on a pike, but been known to do it this way before. This one was shot while deer hunting.

Shoot them and I carry a call in my pocket for when the occasion pops up.

Flatten the coyote every time.

Where I deer hunt, my brother hunts coyotes from a plane with a shotgun. He says there is a coyote every square mile, but we do not usually see them on the ground, except dead hanging on a rancher's fence or in a big pile dead when the kid's annual round them up with snowmobiles or in a pile dead in the back of a trapper's truck.

I see one alive on the ground every few years, but I hate to fire a shot at a coyote if anyone else is with me and hunting for antelope, deer, or elk.

But if I am by myself I will shoot at the coyote.

If I see a coyote any time, my first thought is to kill it. Period.

I shoot suppressed as well, so don't worry near as much about the sound as I used to. Sure, you can still hear it for a ways, but the sound doesn't carry for miles either.

I don't shoot coyotes when deer hunting except when fur prices are high or I feel like shooting a coyote.

Years ago when coyotes were sky high money I hunted the last day of mule deer season with an older friend who was a crotchety pro wolfer, and his son-n-law. We wanted meat and he forbade his son-in-law and me to shoot a coyote unless it was a sure thing shot. As it got light I was hiking up a pine timbered ridge and spotted a pair of coyotes in a pasture far below. Too far. Not a good place to call. Kept climbing.

I came to an ideal calling ambush. Hmmm... Called with my old Weems and both coyotes disappeared. A few minutes later they both showed up 75 yards below me in a steep meadow. Not a sure thing. They came on and a third coyote joined them. At 15 feet I decided that this was pretty close to a sure thing and shot two of them.

I've shot them and not shot them. One day still hunting deer I paused on a timbered bench and while I stood there a coyote walked past within 20 feet of me. I let it go, then regretted it because coyotes have been hard on fawns in that area. About that time its mate came along following the lead coyote's tracks. Bang.

Kill them on sight if i don't miss. ED k

Scorecard 2016:

1- 4 point Muley
2- coyotes