I will shoot them especially if I haven't seen any deer. Bang/flop a coyote in our area and the deer come out to see what happened almost every time. I have no clue as to why.
He's dusted if I see one. If coyote is in the area then there's rarely deer in the immediate vicinity so I don't feel I'm hurting my hunt by shooting one. I have seen deer a few minutes after killing a coyote, so it doesn't seem to mess up the hunt if I shoot one.
I`ve had same experience with deer being curious and showing up shortly after I had downed a coyote.
The coyote / deer has happened to me too. Shooting seems to make them nervous but curious. Also last time in Alaska, I dropped a bull moose. Just as I got my hands into the mooses guts, I looked up and about 200 yds away stood a very nice caribou watching me. I rinsed my hands picked up my rifle and then had two big animals to clean and debone. I won't make that mistake again. I know the caribou had to have heard my two shots at the moose
My biggest fear is when I die my wife will sell my guns for what I told her they cost....
~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~ As Bob Hagel would say"You should not use a rifle that will kill an animal when everything goes right; you should use one that will do the job when everything goes wrong."Good words of wisdom...............
I've passed several while on my stand, but if I see them when I'm walking in or out, it's bye bye. From now on, though, I've decided that if I see one at any time and I have my rifle, it's bang time.
I enjoy putting up fur so I only kill en in Nov. and Dec. The rest of the year they get a pass. I seldom hunt Deer any more anyway but calling Coyotes is about as much fun as you can have with your clothes on IMO.
Coyotes don't do half the chit people say they do but if others want to kill em, leave em lay, and then justify it by thinking they're saving wildlife and stock it's none of my concern. One things for sure, we'll never run out of em.