Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Why we kill coyotes..in Utah and other states

It’s such a major pita to get that bounty, it’s no longer worth it IMHO. I just leave em lie.

Old man used to say only things left would be cockroaches and coyotes.

Yep. Not to mention skunks and Rabies.

You forgot the Cockroaches Roger. 😜

I did too and shot more off their carcasses.

The old people I've known said that they weren't in
east Texas until the mid 1950's
They displaced what few red wolves were left
TPWD could say for sure

Red Wolves kept them out of the east

Growing up back in the fifties and sixties in east Arkansas, we had no coyotes, no beaver, no muskrats, no nutria, very few deer, and no armadillos, nor turkey. We had rabbits, squirrels, coons, possums, mink, quail. Game and fish stocked deer, and I suspect all of the rest of the nuisance animals. Coyotes, beaver, muskrat all showed up about the same time in the late fifties. Armadillos in the Seventies or eighties. Beaver I think was stocked to try to get more wetlands for ducks. The money bird in east Arkansas. I know that my dog killed a muskrat in the late fifties, and the local trappers that trapped a lot of coon and mink, had no idea what it was. They had never seen one before. I also know that in the late eighties and nineties, they stocked alligators to try to help control the beaver population, that was doing a lot of woodland damage. Our game and fish is not always a friend. miles

Should have mentioned that before coyotes, we had a lot of fox. miles

nice shot!

Coyotes arrived in the east via natural movement. In Virginia, one of the last states to be populated, they came in from the north and south. Eastern coyotes are bigger than western coytoes. Studies show eastern coyotes are 64% coyote, 13+% gray wolf, 11+% eastern wolf, and 10% domestic dog . I started seeing coyotes in eastern Virginia in the 80s when they would come in squirrel and turkey calls. Now they are firmly established in Virginia. Our DWR estimate no fewer than 50,000 in Virginia but admit its likely much higher. Some areas have more than 1 per quare mile. And you don't have to report coyote kills in Virginia, but some hunters do voluntarily and hunters are reporting killing 25,000 per year, and that number is likely much higher. One shotgun-only county I hunt actually changed their local laws to permit centerfire rifles for coyote hunting because farmers were loosing so many calves to them. I've seen them prowling a local walmart parking lot, and it's nothing anymore to see them hunting mice in the fields of the local battle fields here. My neighbors have seen them on their surveillance cameras. They've been seen near childrens' bus stops in Williamsburg. They prowl downtown Richmond at night and the liberal city gov't says they are great for rat control. There is no getting rid of them anymore. Our DWR says 60% of them have to be killed every single year just to stablize the population, and their population can rebound in a single year.

There is a stocked population of Red Wolves in eastern NC. Their numbers have dropped from a high of 120 adults to 20 adults today. Besides being hit by cars and getting shot, coyotes are breeding them out of existence. Red Wolves in NC have a lot of coyote DNA in them.

Ya forgot cockroaches, Roger.

Where was that father pussy's gun?

Fuggin stupid liberals.

+1

The piedmont of NC is covered up with them. Old timer told me 20 years ago when the groundhogs showed up the yotes would not be far behind - and he was spot on. I used to kill 125 - 150 groundhogs every year but now only kill a couple dozen. Small game populations have taken a hit as well.

Locals are seeing small dogs and cats disappearing on a daily basis - which in and of itself is not a bad thing. I have told them that its coyotes taking them and they usually call BS until I show them pics. I cross a couple of railroad tracks driving to work every morning and always look up and down the tracks for wildlife, and usually see coyotes a couple times a week on the tracks. Had an incident in my neighborhood a few years back where a coyote snatched a big white rabbit out of a neighbor's garage while her kids were playing with it. The fallout from that was hilarious.

agree..........

crow.......magpie bait

That coyote in Woodland Hills, came back for seconds.

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/coyote-attacks-toddler-in-woodland-hills/

L.W.

Nuthin like......

sending a .452" 45 Colt 250 gr downrange at a 'yote....

Ya can't hit me that lever gun..........

die MO FO

What are these coyotes you speak of?